From: Nicolin Chen <nicolinc@nvidia.com>
To: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>, <joro@8bytes.org>,
Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com>,
Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>, <rafael@kernel.org>,
Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org>,
Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>,
Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Pranjal Shrivastava <praan@google.com>,
"Mostafa Saleh" <smostafa@google.com>,
<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, <iommu@lists.linux.dev>,
<driver-core@lists.linux.dev>, Sonang Patel <sonangp@nvidia.com>,
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<shameerali.kolothum.thodi@huawei.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 0/7] iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Support guest-level Realm VSMMU (Part-1)
Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2026 19:49:43 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <cover.1793676742.git.nicolinc@nvidia.com> (raw)
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
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2.43.0
next reply other threads:[~2026-11-03 3:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-11-03 3:49 Nicolin Chen [this message]
2026-11-03 3:49 ` [PATCH v2 1/7] firmware: arm_rmm: Add VSMMU commands and fields Nicolin Chen
2026-11-03 3:49 ` [PATCH v2 2/7] dma-mapping: Let a device declare that it reaches private memory Nicolin Chen
2026-11-03 10:11 ` Marek Szyprowski
2026-11-03 3:49 ` [PATCH v2 3/7] dma-mapping: Keep DMA memory private for capable devices Nicolin Chen
2026-11-03 10:10 ` Marek Szyprowski
2026-11-03 3:49 ` [PATCH v2 4/7] iommu: Let a driver mark an IOMMU as confidential Nicolin Chen
2026-11-03 3:49 ` [PATCH v2 5/7] iommu: Introduce TDISP T=0 state for confidential IOMMUs Nicolin Chen
2026-11-03 3:49 ` [PATCH v2 6/7] iommu: Park TDISP T=0 devices in the blocking domain Nicolin Chen
2026-11-03 3:49 ` [PATCH v2 7/7] iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Probe a guest-level Realm VSMMU via RSI commands Nicolin Chen
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