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[175.34.8.244]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id 98e67ed59e1d1-39d80f0068esm3343502a91.10.2026.09.10.02.40.17 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 10 Sep 2026 02:40:26 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <472daa5d-19e5-41f1-9650-44e0245bc1f0@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2026 19:40:13 +1000 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Subject: Re: [PATCH v17 06/20] KVM: arm64: CCA: Add a new mode for supporting Realm guests To: Suzuki K Poulose , kvm@vger.kernel.org, kvmarm@lists.linux.dev Cc: maz@kernel.org, will@kernel.org, catalin.marinas@arm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, steven.price@arm.com, aneesh.kumar@kernel.org, oupton@kernel.org, joey.gouly@arm.com, tabba@google.com, yuzenghui@huawei.com, linux-coco@lists.linux.dev, gankulkarni@os.amperecomputing.com, sdonthineni@nvidia.com, alpergun@google.com, fj0570is@fujitsu.com, WeiLin.Chang@arm.com, lpieralisi@kernel.org, enju.kohei@fujitsu.com References: <20260908162223.1683432-1-suzuki.poulose@arm.com> <20260908162223.1683432-7-suzuki.poulose@arm.com> <40d3312a-c695-44ed-857a-fc6bf293f3e6@arm.com> Content-Language: en-US From: Gavin Shan In-Reply-To: <40d3312a-c695-44ed-857a-fc6bf293f3e6@arm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit On 9/10/26 6:43 PM, Suzuki K Poulose wrote: > On 10/09/2026 06:53, Gavin Shan wrote: >> Hi Suzuki, >> >> On 9/9/26 2:22 AM, Suzuki K Poulose wrote: >>> Add an explicit mode to support Arm CCA guests. >>> >>> Signed-off-by: Suzuki K Poulose >>> --- >>>   Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 3 +++ >>>   arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h               | 1 + >>>   arch/arm64/kvm/arm.c                            | 5 +++++ >>>   3 files changed, 9 insertions(+) >>> >>> diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/ Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt >>> index 68647ff4bdd24..1afe3df3b923e 100644 >>> --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt >>> +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt >>> @@ -3256,6 +3256,9 @@ Kernel parameters >>>               nested: VHE-based mode with support for nested >>>                   virtualization. Requires at least ARMv8.4 >>>                   hardware (with FEAT_NV2). >>> +            rmm: Support for running confidential guests in Realm >>> +                 world using RMM, as defined by Arm Confidential >>> +                 Compute Architecture (CCA) >>> >> >> I'm not sure, but 'realm' would be more appropriate name. rmm (Real Management Monitor) is >> the term limited to the firmware to me. Besides, we have been using 'realm' broadly in this >> series like kvm_vm_is_realm(), kvm_realm_state() and so on. > > May be. But we use the "mode" of the hypervisor in question here, mostly. e.g., nvhe, vhe, protected etc. So, I went with RMM (in favor > of CCA). Does that make sense ? Also, we rely on firmware/arm_rmm for > the support. So, it kind of make sense to keep it "rmm" ? > Ok, lets keep 'rmm' unless somebody else has better suggestion. > Cheers > Suzuki > Thanks, Gavin