Re: [PATCH v17 0/7] firmware: arm_rmm: Add RMM v2.0 base RMI support

[Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>]

Hi Kohei-San

Linaro is best suited to answer this. I have Cc'ed Mathieu (and
Lorenzo), who may be able to help you here.

On 08/09/2026 05:09, Kohei Enju wrote:
> Hi Suzuki,
> 
> On 09/07 10:59, Suzuki K Poulose wrote:
>> This series adds the generic firmware layer for talking to the Realm
>> Management Monitor (RMM), as specified by the RMM v2.0-bet3
>> specification[1]. It is the first part of the Arm CCA host support that
>> was previously posted as part of the larger KVM series.
>>
>> The split allows this RMM support to be used as a base for other work,
>> including Aneesh's PCI IDE support with Arm CCA RMM as the TSM,
>>   without depending on the KVM Realm support that will follow as separate
>>   series. (See more on that below)
>>
>> The series adds:
>>
>>   * The RMI SMC definitions and direct-call wrappers.
>>
>>   * RMM discovery and version checks during firmware init.
>>
>>   * RMM host configuration, including the host page size.
>>
>>   * Stateful RMI Operation (SRO) infrastructure for commands which the RMM
>>     can complete across multiple SMC calls while requesting or returning
>>     memory to the host.
>>
>>   * Verification that granule tracking is available at fine granularity.
>>     Fine-grained tracking allows each granule in the system to be tracked
>>     independently, which is required before individual granules can be
>>     delegated. A future series will add support for dynamically supplying
>>     memory to the RMM for this tracking.
>>
>>   * Support for fully firmware-managed systems, where the Granule Protection
>>     Tables for memory regions are allocated and managed by firmware. RMM v2.0
>>     also allows dynamic GPT creation on demand; support for that will be added
>>     in a later series.
>>
>>   * Wrappers for the RMI commands that are used for managing the "Realm VM"
>>     lifecycle. This is added in to make it easier for the on-going KVM support
>>     to evolve in parallel pieces.
>>
>> If the platform firmware cannot manage the granule tracking or the GPTs, we
>> bail out and deactivate the RMM, reclaiming any memory that we have donated.
>>
>> The RMM v2.0 spec introduces Stateful RMI Operations (SROs), which allow
>> the RMM to complete an operation over several SMC calls while requesting
>> or returning memory to the host. This allows interrupts to be handled in
>> the middle of an operation and lets the RMM dynamically allocate memory
>> for internal tracking purposes. For example, RMI_REC_CREATE no longer
>> needs auxiliary granules to be provided up front, and can instead
>> request memory during the operation.
>>
>> This series applies on v7.3-rc1 and a branch is available at [2]. The KVM
>> CCA support that builds on this series is available at [3] as an integration
>> branch. The KVM support depends on guest-memfd-in-place conversion support v12
>> from Ackerley [4], we plan to split that into parts, which apply cleanly on
>> v7.3-rcx without any dependency and is in progress. This will be made available
>> as soon as it is ready. Until then [3] shows how this base series enables KVM
>> CCA support. You may find the tf-RMM [5] and kvmtool support [6] below.
>>
>> [1] RMM spec : https://support.arm.com/documentation/den0137/2-0bet3/
>> [2] This series: https://gitlab.arm.com/linux-arm/linux-cca.git cca/cca-host/fw_rmm/v17
>> [3] KVM CCA v17 integration branch: https://gitlab.arm.com/linux-arm/linux-cca.git cca/cca-host/kvm-integration/v17
>> [4] Gmem inplace conversion https://github.com/googleprodkernel/linux-cc/tree/guest_memfd-inplace-conversion-v12
>> [5] TF-RMM https://git.trustedfirmware.org/TF-RMM/tf-rmm.git main (commit: 134266ae)
> 
> I understand that QEMU-virt is not intended to model a realistic
> production platform and that QEMU-SBSA is generally preferred. However,
> I sometimes use QEMU-virt to test functionality quickly because it runs
> slightly faster than QEMU-SBSA.
> 
> I tested this series with QEMU-virt and found that RMM initialization
> failed during boot:
> 
>    [...]
>    INFO:    BL31: Initializing RMM
>    INFO:    RMM init start.
>    ERROR:   RMM init failed: -8
>    WARNING: BL31: RMM initialization failed
> 
> The following TF-A revision was used:
>    https://git.trustedfirmware.org/TF-A/trusted-firmware-a.git master (38269bb)
> 
> After investigating, I found that the failure was caused by the lack of
> a plat_rmmd_reserve_memory() implementation for the QEMU-virt platform
> in TF-A. Adding an implementation equivalent to the QEMU-SBSA one
> resolved the issue:
>      https://git.trustedfirmware.org/plugins/gitiles/TF-A/trusted-firmware-a.git/+/9d594743aa4d4e8160cdf025ea7538041648972c
> 
> Is QEMU virt still intended to be supported as an RME emulation
> platform? In particular, is this functionality simply not implemented
> yet, or is there a reason why RME support is not planned for QEMU virt?
> 
> If this is not the appropriate place to discuss this, please let me

Mathieu, Lorenzo,

Over to you folks :-)

Cheers
Suzuki


> know :)
> 
> Thanks,
> Kohei
> 
>> [6] kvmtool https://gitlab.arm.com/linux-arm/kvmtool-cca.git cca/kvm-v17
>>
>> Known issues: RMMv2.0
>>   * RmiOpMemDonateReq:count (Uint14) is incompatible with RmiAddrRangeDesc4KB
>>    (Uint10) and RmiAddrRangeDesc16KB (Uint12). i.e., a larger contiguous request
>>    may not be satisfiable by the host. Arm is aware of this defect and a spec fix
>>    is in progress.
>>
>>
>> Steven Price (7):
>>    firmware: arm_rmm: Add SMC definitions for calling the RMM
>>    firmware: arm_rmm: Check for RMI support at init
>>    firmware: arm_rmm: Configure the RMM with the host's page size
>>    firmware: arm_rmm: Add support for SRO
>>    firmware: arm_rmm: Activate the RMM
>>    firmware: arm_rmm: Ensure the RMM has GPT entries for memory
>>    firmware: arm_rmm: Add wrappers for Realm related RMI commands
>>
>>   arch/arm64/Kconfig                |   1 +
>>   arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c    |   1 +
>>   drivers/firmware/Kconfig          |   1 +
>>   drivers/firmware/Makefile         |   1 +
>>   drivers/firmware/arm_rmm/Kconfig  |  26 +
>>   drivers/firmware/arm_rmm/Makefile |   2 +
>>   drivers/firmware/arm_rmm/rmi.c    | 819 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>   include/linux/arm-rmi-cmds.h      | 678 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>   include/linux/arm-smccc-rmi.h     | 494 ++++++++++++++++++
>>   9 files changed, 2023 insertions(+)
>>   create mode 100644 drivers/firmware/arm_rmm/Kconfig
>>   create mode 100644 drivers/firmware/arm_rmm/Makefile
>>   create mode 100644 drivers/firmware/arm_rmm/rmi.c
>>   create mode 100644 include/linux/arm-rmi-cmds.h
>>   create mode 100644 include/linux/arm-smccc-rmi.h
>>
>> -- 
>> 2.43.0
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