From: Steven Price <steven.price@arm.com>
To: kvm@vger.kernel.org, kvmarm@lists.linux.dev
Cc: Steven Price <steven.price@arm.com>,
Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>, Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>,
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"Aneesh Kumar K . V" <aneesh.kumar@kernel.org>,
Emi Kisanuki <fj0570is@fujitsu.com>,
Vishal Annapurve <vannapurve@google.com>,
WeiLin.Chang@arm.com, Lorenzo Pieralisi <lpieralisi@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH v16 16/45] KVM: arm64: CCA: Allow passing the machine type in KVM creation
Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2026 14:43:32 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260803134403.80630-17-steven.price@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260803134403.80630-1-steven.price@arm.com>
Previously machine type was used purely for specifying the physical
address size of the guest. Reserve the higher bits to specify an ARM
specific machine type and declare a new type 'KVM_VM_TYPE_ARM_REALM'
used to create a realm guest.
Signed-off-by: Steven Price <steven.price@arm.com>
---
Changes since v15:
* Specify the encoding for each VM type in the documentation.
Changes since v13:
* Rework to use the two top bits for the machine type now that pKVM has
merged and used the top bit for KVM_VM_TYPE_ARM_PROTECTED.
* Update the documentation to include KVM_VM_TYPE_ARM_PROTECTED as
well.
Changes since v9:
* Explictly set realm.state to REALM_STATE_NONE rather than rely on the
zeroing of the structure.
Changes since v7:
* Add some documentation explaining the new machine type.
Changes since v6:
* Make the check for kvm_rme_is_available more visible and report an
error code of -EPERM (instead of -EINVAL) to make it explicit that
the kernel supports RME, but the platform doesn't.
---
Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst | 21 +++++++++++++++++++--
arch/arm64/kvm/arm.c | 11 +++++++++++
include/uapi/linux/kvm.h | 7 ++++++-
3 files changed, 36 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst b/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst
index ce588c05b26a..802601eaf560 100644
--- a/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst
+++ b/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst
@@ -181,8 +181,25 @@ flag KVM_VM_MIPS_VZ.
ARM64:
^^^^^^
-On arm64, the physical address size for a VM (IPA Size limit) is limited
-to 40bits by default. The limit can be configured if the host supports the
+On arm64, the machine type identifier is used to encode a type and the
+physical address size for the VM. The lower byte (bits[7:0]) encodes the
+address size and the upper bits[31:30] encode a machine type. The machine
+types that might be available are:
+
+ ========================= ======= ========================================
+ Type [31:30] Description
+ ========================= ======= ========================================
+ KVM_VM_TYPE_ARM_NORMAL 0b00 A standard VM
+ KVM_VM_TYPE_ARM_REALM 0b01 A "realm" VM using the Arm Confidential
+ Compute extensions, the VM's memory is
+ protected from the host.
+ KVM_VM_TYPE_ARM_PROTECTED 0b10 A "protected" VM using pKVM to
+ isolate the VM from the host.
+ Reserved 0b11 Reserved for future use
+ ========================= ======= ========================================
+
+The physical address size for a VM (IPA Size limit) is limited to 40bits
+by default. The limit can be configured if the host supports the
extension KVM_CAP_ARM_VM_IPA_SIZE. When supported, use
KVM_VM_TYPE_ARM_IPA_SIZE(IPA_Bits) to set the size in the machine type
identifier, where IPA_Bits is the maximum width of any physical
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/arm.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/arm.c
index 6f39831dcf5d..9881fd6c511c 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/arm.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/arm.c
@@ -249,6 +249,17 @@ int kvm_arch_init_vm(struct kvm *kvm, unsigned long type)
mutex_unlock(&kvm->lock);
#endif
+ if ((type & KVM_VM_TYPE_ARM_PROTECTED) &&
+ (type & KVM_VM_TYPE_ARM_REALM))
+ return -EINVAL;
+
+ if (type & KVM_VM_TYPE_ARM_REALM) {
+ if (!static_branch_unlikely(&kvm_rmi_is_available))
+ return -EINVAL;
+ kvm_set_realm_state(kvm, REALM_STATE_NONE);
+ kvm->arch.is_realm = true;
+ }
+
kvm_init_nested(kvm);
ret = kvm_share_hyp(kvm, kvm + 1);
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/kvm.h b/include/uapi/linux/kvm.h
index 0231ff174a50..adee3936d6ae 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/kvm.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/kvm.h
@@ -700,14 +700,19 @@ struct kvm_enable_cap {
* address size for the VM. Bits[7-0] are reserved for the guest
* PA size shift (i.e, log2(PA_Size)). For backward compatibility,
* value 0 implies the default IPA size, 40bits.
+ *
+ * Bits[30-31] are reserved for the VM type
*/
#define KVM_VM_TYPE_ARM_IPA_SIZE_MASK 0xffULL
#define KVM_VM_TYPE_ARM_IPA_SIZE(x) \
((x) & KVM_VM_TYPE_ARM_IPA_SIZE_MASK)
+#define KVM_VM_TYPE_ARM_NORMAL 0
+#define KVM_VM_TYPE_ARM_REALM (1UL << 30)
#define KVM_VM_TYPE_ARM_PROTECTED (1UL << 31)
#define KVM_VM_TYPE_ARM_MASK (KVM_VM_TYPE_ARM_IPA_SIZE_MASK | \
- KVM_VM_TYPE_ARM_PROTECTED)
+ KVM_VM_TYPE_ARM_PROTECTED | \
+ KVM_VM_TYPE_ARM_REALM)
/*
* ioctls for /dev/kvm fds:
--
2.43.0
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Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-08-03 13:43 [PATCH v16 00/45] arm64: Support for Arm CCA in KVM Steven Price
2026-08-03 13:43 ` [PATCH v16 01/45] firmware: arm_rmm: Add SMC definitions for calling the RMM Steven Price
2026-08-03 13:43 ` [PATCH v16 02/45] firmware: arm_rmm: Add wrappers for direct RMI calls Steven Price
2026-08-03 13:43 ` [PATCH v16 03/45] firmware: arm_rmm: Check for RMI support at init Steven Price
2026-08-03 13:43 ` [PATCH v16 04/45] firmware: arm_rmm: Configure the RMM with the host's page size Steven Price
2026-08-03 13:43 ` [PATCH v16 05/45] firmware: arm_rmm: Add support for SRO Steven Price
2026-08-03 13:43 ` [PATCH v16 06/45] firmware: arm_rmm: Ensure the RMM has GPT entries for memory Steven Price
2026-08-03 13:43 ` [PATCH v16 07/45] arm64: mm: Handle Granule Protection Faults (GPFs) Steven Price
2026-08-03 13:43 ` [PATCH v16 08/45] KVM: arm64: Include kvm_emulate.h in kvm/arm_psci.h Steven Price
2026-08-03 13:43 ` [PATCH v16 09/45] KVM: arm64: Avoid including linux/kvm_host.h in kvm_pgtable.h Steven Price
2026-08-03 13:43 ` [PATCH v16 10/45] KVM: arm64: CCA: Add wrappers for realm related RMIs Steven Price
2026-08-03 13:43 ` [PATCH v16 11/45] KVM: arm64: CCA: Check for RMI support at KVM init Steven Price
2026-08-04 14:55 ` Fuad Tabba
2026-08-04 14:59 ` Suzuki K Poulose
2026-08-03 13:43 ` [PATCH v16 12/45] KVM: arm64: CCA: Check for LPA2 support Steven Price
2026-08-03 13:43 ` [PATCH v16 13/45] KVM: arm64: CCA: Define the user ABI Steven Price
2026-08-03 13:43 ` [PATCH v16 14/45] KVM: arm64: CCA: Add basic infrastructure for creating a realm Steven Price
2026-08-03 13:43 ` [PATCH v16 15/45] KVM: arm64: CCA: Don't expose unsupported capabilities for realm guests Steven Price
2026-08-03 13:43 ` Steven Price [this message]
2026-08-03 13:43 ` [PATCH v16 17/45] KVM: arm64: CCA: Tear down RTTs Steven Price
2026-08-03 22:29 ` Alper Gun
2026-08-04 12:16 ` Suzuki K Poulose
2026-08-03 13:43 ` [PATCH v16 18/45] KVM: arm64: CCA: Allocate and free RECs to match vCPUs Steven Price
2026-08-03 13:43 ` [PATCH v16 19/45] KVM: arm64: CCA: Support the VGIC in realms Steven Price
2026-08-03 13:43 ` [PATCH v16 20/45] KVM: arm64: CCA: Support timers in realm RECs Steven Price
2026-08-03 13:43 ` [PATCH v16 21/45] KVM: arm64: CCA: Handle realm enter/exit Steven Price
2026-08-04 8:57 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2026-08-04 13:36 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2026-08-03 13:43 ` [PATCH v16 22/45] KVM: arm64: CCA: Handle RMI_EXIT_RIPAS_CHANGE Steven Price
2026-08-03 13:43 ` [PATCH v16 23/45] KVM: arm64: CCA: Handle realm MMIO emulation Steven Price
2026-08-03 13:43 ` [PATCH v16 24/45] KVM: arm64: Expose support for private memory Steven Price
2026-08-03 13:43 ` [PATCH v16 25/45] KVM: arm64: CCA: Create the realm descriptor Steven Price
2026-08-03 13:43 ` [PATCH v16 26/45] KVM: arm64: CCA: Activate realms on first vCPU run Steven Price
2026-08-03 13:43 ` [PATCH v16 27/45] KVM: arm64: CCA: Allow populating initial contents Steven Price
2026-08-03 13:43 ` [PATCH v16 28/45] KVM: arm64: CCA: Set RIPAS of initial memslots Steven Price
2026-08-03 13:43 ` [PATCH v16 29/45] KVM: arm64: CCA: Support runtime faulting of memory Steven Price
2026-08-03 13:43 ` [PATCH v16 30/45] KVM: arm64: CCA: Handle realm vCPU load Steven Price
2026-08-03 13:43 ` [PATCH v16 31/45] KVM: arm64: CCA: Validate register access for Realm VMs Steven Price
2026-08-03 13:43 ` [PATCH v16 32/45] KVM: arm64: CCA: Handle Realm PSCI requests Steven Price
2026-08-03 13:43 ` [PATCH v16 33/45] KVM: arm64: WARN on injected undef exceptions Steven Price
2026-08-03 13:43 ` [PATCH v16 34/45] KVM: arm64: CCA: Allow userspace to inject aborts Steven Price
2026-08-03 13:43 ` [PATCH v16 35/45] KVM: arm64: CCA: Support RSI_HOST_CALL Steven Price
2026-08-03 13:43 ` [PATCH v16 36/45] KVM: arm64: CCA: Allow checking SVE on VM instance Steven Price
2026-08-03 13:43 ` [PATCH v16 37/45] KVM: arm64: CCA: Prevent Device mappings for realms Steven Price
2026-08-03 13:43 ` [PATCH v16 38/45] KVM: arm64: CCA: Propagate breakpoint and watchpoint counts to userspace Steven Price
2026-08-03 13:43 ` [PATCH v16 39/45] KVM: arm64: CCA: Set breakpoint parameters through SET_ONE_REG Steven Price
2026-08-03 13:43 ` [PATCH v16 40/45] KVM: arm64: CCA: Propagate max SVE vector length from the RMM Steven Price
2026-08-03 13:43 ` [PATCH v16 41/45] KVM: arm64: CCA: Configure max SVE vector length for a Realm Steven Price
2026-08-03 13:43 ` [PATCH v16 42/45] KVM: arm64: CCA: Provide register list for unfinalized RECs Steven Price
2026-08-03 13:43 ` [PATCH v16 43/45] KVM: arm64: CCA: Provide an accurate register list Steven Price
2026-08-03 13:44 ` [PATCH v16 44/45] KVM: arm64: CCA: Require ICH_HCR_EL2.TDIR for realms Steven Price
2026-08-03 13:44 ` [PATCH v16 45/45] KVM: arm64: CCA: Enable realms to be created Steven Price
2026-08-03 15:01 ` [PATCH v16 00/45] arm64: Support for Arm CCA in KVM Marc Zyngier
2026-08-03 15:06 ` Steven Price
2026-08-03 15:20 ` Marc Zyngier
2026-08-03 15:45 ` Steven Price
2026-08-04 14:24 ` Fuad Tabba
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