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* [PATCH v2 0/7] iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Support guest-level Realm VSMMU (Part-1)
@ 2026-11-03  3:49 Nicolin Chen
  2026-11-03  3:49 ` [PATCH v2 1/7] firmware: arm_rmm: Add VSMMU commands and fields Nicolin Chen
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From: Nicolin Chen @ 2026-11-03  3:49 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Jason Gunthorpe, joro, Will Deacon, Robin Murphy,
	Catalin Marinas, rafael, Danilo Krummrich, Johan Hovold,
	Marek Szyprowski
  Cc: Mark Rutland, Greg Kroah-Hartman, Pranjal Shrivastava,
	Mostafa Saleh, linux-kernel, iommu, driver-core, Sonang Patel,
	Ankit Agrawal, shameerali.kolothum.thodi

This series prepares Realm guest IOMMU and DMA subsystems for devices that
are present but not yet inside the Realm trust boundary.

Inside a confidential guest, we expect that all the iommus are going to be
T=1 aware; there seems to be no interest in supporting IOMMUs that handle
T=0 only. This means they only work on devices that have been put into the
run state and issue T=1 transactions.

Today an iommu driver assumes it translates for every device behind it: it
probes the device, takes a translating default domain, and puts the DMA API
on its page tables. That assumption is wrong for T=0 devices, whose DMA the
hypervisor translates instead, so the mappings made by the guest are never
consulted and the device silently stops working.

To solve this problem, make TDISP T=0 the default for devices associated
with a confidential IOMMU. The tdisp_t1 flag records the future T=1 state.

While T=0, the device remains outside the Realm trust boundary. Its DMA is
translated by the host or hypervisor:

    [device: T=0] ===> [hypervisor] ===> [memory]
        |
        +-- (guest association) --> [confidential IOMMU: blocking DMA]

         Legend: ===> DMA path; --> guest topology and control

After reaching T=1, the device is inside the Realm trust boundary. Its DMA
may use the guest VSMMU after RMM binds the device to its virtual stream:

    [device] ===> [VSMMU: S1] ===> [RMM/PSMMU: S2 + DPT] ===> [memory]

As part 1 of Realm VSMMU support, implement enough core infrastructure to
manage a confidential vIOMMU:
 - Detect and mark it as confidential in the core iommu structures
 - Support devices in T=0 mode by keeping the DMA API in direct mode. The
   iommu is up and running, but parks such a device in its blocking domain
   and translates for nothing, as the core takes over what the device still
   needs, which today is ATS
 - Keep it parked: refuse a translating domain by every route in, whether
   through the default domain, sysfs, group attach or replace, or PASID

Part 1 only adds the helpers required for T=0 setup and teardown. It does
not add iommu_tdisp_enter_t1() until part 2 has a transition to perform.

Then implement SMMUv3 support:
 - Let a CPU-integrated IOMMU declare that its DMA can reach private
   memory, so coherent allocations and streaming mappings avoid the SWIOTLB
   shared pool
 - Identify a T=1 VSMMU using trusted RSI because firmware does not
   distinguish it from a normal T=0 SMMU
 - Validate the firmware MMIO range against RSI before activating the VSMMU
   and allocating its queues and tables from private memory

The series is on github:
https://github.com/nicolinc/iommufd/commits/smmuv3_realm_guest_p1-v2

Changelog
v2:
 * Rebase on v7.4-rc1
 * Drop Assisted-by tags
 * Drop Aneesh's firmware patch that was merged
 * Skip Tegra CMDQV implementation in the realm world
 * Use arm_smccc_1_2_smc() to zero inputs as RMM spec demands
 * Add missing iommu_using_t0_stream() check in iommu_dma_prepare_msi()
v1:
 https://lore.kernel.org/all/cover.1789010941.git.nicolinc@nvidia.com/

Future work
===========

Part 2 will add the T=1 transition after validation through:

  - TSM, whose guest-side interface remains under discussion
  - RMM, using the Arm-specific RSI VDEV command

For a multi-device IOMMU group, the first device accepted into T=1 claims
the group. Part 2 will reject T=1 for every other member.

The current RSI binding validation returns one VSID, so part 2 must reject
a firmware specification containing multiple SIDs upon the T=1 transition.

Nicolin Chen (7):
  firmware: arm_rmm: Add VSMMU commands and fields
  dma-mapping: Let a device declare that it reaches private memory
  dma-mapping: Keep DMA memory private for capable devices
  iommu: Let a driver mark an IOMMU as confidential
  iommu: Introduce TDISP T=0 state for confidential IOMMUs
  iommu: Park TDISP T=0 devices in the blocking domain
  iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Probe a guest-level Realm VSMMU via RSI commands

 drivers/iommu/Makefile                      |  3 +
 drivers/iommu/iommu-priv.h                  | 19 +++++
 include/linux/arm-rsi-cmds.h                | 29 +++++++
 include/linux/arm-smccc-rsi.h               | 20 +++++
 include/linux/device.h                      |  4 +
 include/linux/dma-direct.h                  |  7 +-
 include/linux/dma-mapping.h                 |  4 +
 include/linux/iommu.h                       | 14 ++++
 drivers/iommu/arm/arm-smmu-v3/arm-smmu-v3.c | 64 ++++++++++++++-
 drivers/iommu/iommu-cc.c                    | 57 +++++++++++++
 drivers/iommu/iommu.c                       | 91 +++++++++++++++++++--
 kernel/dma/direct.c                         | 16 ++--
 kernel/dma/mapping.c                        | 23 +++++-
 kernel/dma/swiotlb.c                        |  2 +-
 14 files changed, 335 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 drivers/iommu/iommu-cc.c


base-commit: 6628e7d4c6b25c8d18f1345e3a20d21829aae7e4
-- 
2.43.0


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