From: "Aneesh Kumar K.V (Arm)" <aneesh.kumar@kernel.org>
To: linux-coco@lists.linux.dev, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V (Arm)" <aneesh.kumar@kernel.org>,
Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Jeremy Linton <jeremy.linton@arm.com>,
Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org>,
Lorenzo Pieralisi <lpieralisi@kernel.org>,
Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>,
Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
Steven Price <steven.price@arm.com>,
Suzuki K Poulose <Suzuki.Poulose@arm.com>
Subject: [PATCH v5 3/3] coco: guest: arm64: Replace dummy CCA device with sysfs ABI
Date: Thu, 14 May 2026 15:10:30 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260514094030.42495-4-aneesh.kumar@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260514094030.42495-1-aneesh.kumar@kernel.org>
The SMCCC firmware driver now creates the arm-smccc platform device and
instantiates the CCA auxiliary devices once the RSI ABI is discovered. The
arm64-specific arm-cca-dev platform device stub is therefore no longer
needed.
However, userspace has used the arm-cca-dev platform device to detect Arm
CCA Realm guests [1]. Removing it without a replacement would break that
detection and would also leave userspace depending on kernel device-model
details.
Add /sys/firmware/cca/realm_guest as a stable, architecture-provided ABI
for detecting whether the kernel is running as an Arm CCA Realm guest. The
file returns 1 in Realm world and 0 otherwise, similar to the existing s390
/sys/firmware/uv/prot_virt_guest interface for protected virtualization
guests.
Remove the dummy arm-cca-dev registration now that userspace has a
dedicated CCA Realm guest indicator, and document the new ABI in
Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-cca.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/4a7d84b2-2ec4-4773-a2d5-7b63d5c683cf@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V (Arm) <aneesh.kumar@kernel.org>
---
Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-cca | 10 +++++
arch/arm64/kernel/rsi.c | 39 +++++++++++++++-----
2 files changed, 39 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-cca
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-cca b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-cca
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..bf177d636b92
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-cca
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+What: /sys/firmware/cca/realm_guest
+Date: May 2026
+Contact: Linux ARM Kernel Mailing list <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>
+Description: Read-only. Indicates whether the kernel is running as an
+ Arm Confidential Compute Architecture (CCA) Realm guest.
+
+ The value is one of:
+
+ 0: the kernel is not running as a Realm guest
+ 1: the kernel is running as a Realm guest
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/rsi.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/rsi.c
index 8380e5ba88d2..a3e9b3bb5679 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/rsi.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/rsi.c
@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@
#include <linux/swiotlb.h>
#include <linux/cc_platform.h>
#include <linux/platform_device.h>
+#include <linux/kobject.h>
+#include <linux/sysfs.h>
#include <asm/io.h>
#include <asm/mem_encrypt.h>
@@ -16,6 +18,7 @@
#include <asm/rsi.h>
static struct realm_config config;
+static struct kobject *cca_kobj;
unsigned long prot_ns_shared;
EXPORT_SYMBOL(prot_ns_shared);
@@ -160,17 +163,33 @@ void __init arm64_rsi_init(void)
static_branch_enable(&rsi_present);
}
-static struct platform_device rsi_dev = {
- .name = "arm-cca-dev",
- .id = PLATFORM_DEVID_NONE
+static ssize_t cca_is_realm_guest(struct kobject *kobj,
+ struct kobj_attribute *attr, char *buf)
+{
+ return sysfs_emit(buf, "%d\n", is_realm_world());
+}
+
+static struct kobj_attribute cca_realm_guest =
+ __ATTR(realm_guest, 0444, cca_is_realm_guest, NULL);
+
+static const struct attribute *cca_realm_attrs[] = {
+ &cca_realm_guest.attr,
+ NULL,
};
-static int __init arm64_create_dummy_rsi_dev(void)
+static int __init realm_sysfs_init(void)
{
- if (is_realm_world() &&
- platform_device_register(&rsi_dev))
- pr_err("failed to register rsi platform device\n");
- return 0;
-}
+ int ret;
+
+ cca_kobj = kobject_create_and_add("cca", firmware_kobj);
+ if (!cca_kobj)
+ return -ENOMEM;
-arch_initcall(arm64_create_dummy_rsi_dev)
+ ret = sysfs_create_files(cca_kobj, cca_realm_attrs);
+ if (!ret)
+ return 0;
+
+ kobject_put(cca_kobj);
+ return ret;
+}
+device_initcall(realm_sysfs_init);
--
2.43.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-05-14 9:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-05-14 9:40 [PATCH v5 0/3] Switch Arm CCA to use an auxiliary device instead of a platform device Aneesh Kumar K.V (Arm)
2026-05-14 9:40 ` [PATCH v5 1/3] firmware: smccc: coco: Manage arm-smccc platform device and CCA auxiliary drivers Aneesh Kumar K.V (Arm)
2026-05-14 11:04 ` Suzuki K Poulose
2026-05-14 12:50 ` Sudeep Holla
2026-05-14 12:55 ` Greg KH
2026-05-14 13:19 ` Catalin Marinas
2026-05-14 13:25 ` Greg KH
2026-05-14 13:46 ` Catalin Marinas
2026-05-14 14:23 ` Greg KH
2026-05-14 13:23 ` Catalin Marinas
2026-05-14 9:40 ` [PATCH v5 2/3] hwrng: arm_smccc_trng: Register as an auxiliary device Aneesh Kumar K.V (Arm)
2026-05-14 9:40 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V (Arm) [this message]
2026-05-14 10:19 ` [PATCH v5 0/3] Switch Arm CCA to use an auxiliary device instead of a platform device Greg KH
2026-05-14 10:51 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2026-05-14 12:45 ` Greg KH
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