From: Mostafa Saleh <smostafa@google.com>
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvmarm@lists.linux.dev,
iommu@lists.linux.dev
Cc: catalin.marinas@arm.com, will@kernel.org, maz@kernel.org,
oliver.upton@linux.dev, joey.gouly@arm.com,
suzuki.poulose@arm.com, yuzenghui@huawei.com, joro@8bytes.org,
jean-philippe@linaro.org, jgg@ziepe.ca, mark.rutland@arm.com,
qperret@google.com, tabba@google.com, vdonnefort@google.com,
sebastianene@google.com, keirf@google.com,
Mostafa Saleh <smostafa@google.com>
Subject: [PATCH v6 25/25] KVM: arm64: Add documentation for pKVM DMA isolation
Date: Fri, 1 May 2026 11:19:27 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260501111928.259252-26-smostafa@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260501111928.259252-1-smostafa@google.com>
Populate the section for DMA isolation in pKVM with the newly
added KVM IOMMU and pKVM SMMUv3 driver details.
Signed-off-by: Mostafa Saleh <smostafa@google.com>
---
Documentation/virt/kvm/arm/pkvm.rst | 19 ++++++++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/virt/kvm/arm/pkvm.rst b/Documentation/virt/kvm/arm/pkvm.rst
index 514992a79a83..46e5c553646b 100644
--- a/Documentation/virt/kvm/arm/pkvm.rst
+++ b/Documentation/virt/kvm/arm/pkvm.rst
@@ -77,7 +77,24 @@ Status: **Unimplemented.**
DMA isolation using an IOMMU
----------------------------
-Status: **Unimplemented.**
+Status: Supported for devices behind SMMUv3 supporting dual stages
+of translation.
+
+With ``CONFIG_ARM_SMMU_V3_PKVM``, the hypervisor will take over the SMMUs
+on the system and provide an architectural emulation to the kernel SMMUv3
+driver transparently.
+
+If some devices are not behind an IOMMU or behind another IOMMU architecture,
+DMA isolation is not supported, as a driver must be provided for that.
+
+DMA isolation is enforced by dual stage of translation; similar to the CPU
+where a driver can register their ops through ``kvm_iommu_register_driver``
+and implement ``host_stage2_idmap`` to shadow the CPU page table.
+
+This implementation trusts the systems firmware not to allow the untrusted
+host kernel to bypass the SMMUv3.
+For example by resetting the power. In that case, it is the firmware
+responsibility to save/restore the SMMUv3 state.
Proxying of Trustzone services
------------------------------
--
2.54.0.545.g6539524ca2-goog
prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-05-01 11:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-05-01 11:19 [PATCH v6 00/25] KVM: arm64: SMMUv3 driver for pKVM (trap and emulate) Mostafa Saleh
2026-05-01 11:19 ` [PATCH v6 01/25] KVM: arm64: Generalize trace clock Mostafa Saleh
2026-05-01 11:19 ` [PATCH v6 02/25] KVM: arm64: Donate MMIO to the hypervisor Mostafa Saleh
2026-05-01 11:19 ` [PATCH v6 03/25] iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Split code with hyp Mostafa Saleh
2026-05-01 12:44 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2026-05-04 12:13 ` Mostafa Saleh
2026-05-01 11:19 ` [PATCH v6 04/25] iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Move TLB range invalidation into common code Mostafa Saleh
2026-05-01 12:41 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2026-05-04 12:15 ` Mostafa Saleh
2026-05-01 11:19 ` [PATCH v6 05/25] iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Move IDR parsing to common functions Mostafa Saleh
2026-05-01 12:47 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2026-05-04 12:16 ` Mostafa Saleh
2026-05-01 11:19 ` [PATCH v6 06/25] iommu/io-pgtable-arm: Rework to use the iommu-pages API Mostafa Saleh
2026-05-01 12:24 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2026-05-04 12:19 ` Mostafa Saleh
2026-05-01 11:19 ` [PATCH v6 07/25] KVM: arm64: iommu: Introduce IOMMU driver infrastructure Mostafa Saleh
2026-05-01 11:19 ` [PATCH v6 08/25] KVM: arm64: iommu: Shadow host stage-2 page table Mostafa Saleh
2026-05-01 13:00 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2026-05-04 12:28 ` Mostafa Saleh
2026-05-01 11:19 ` [PATCH v6 09/25] KVM: arm64: iommu: Add memory pool Mostafa Saleh
2026-05-01 11:19 ` [PATCH v6 10/25] KVM: arm64: iommu: Support DABT for IOMMU Mostafa Saleh
2026-05-01 11:19 ` [PATCH v6 11/25] iommu/arm-smmu-v3-kvm: Add SMMUv3 driver Mostafa Saleh
2026-05-01 11:19 ` [PATCH v6 12/25] iommu/arm-smmu-v3-kvm: Add the kernel driver Mostafa Saleh
2026-05-01 11:19 ` [PATCH v6 13/25] iommu/arm-smmu-v3-kvm: Probe SMMU HW Mostafa Saleh
2026-05-01 12:51 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2026-05-04 12:30 ` Mostafa Saleh
2026-05-01 11:19 ` [PATCH v6 14/25] iommu/arm-smmu-v3-kvm: Add MMIO emulation Mostafa Saleh
2026-05-01 11:19 ` [PATCH v6 15/25] iommu/arm-smmu-v3-kvm: Shadow the command queue Mostafa Saleh
2026-05-01 11:19 ` [PATCH v6 16/25] iommu/arm-smmu-v3-kvm: Add CMDQ functions Mostafa Saleh
2026-05-01 11:19 ` [PATCH v6 17/25] iommu/arm-smmu-v3-kvm: Emulate CMDQ for host Mostafa Saleh
2026-05-01 11:19 ` [PATCH v6 18/25] iommu/arm-smmu-v3-kvm: Shadow stream table Mostafa Saleh
2026-05-01 11:19 ` [PATCH v6 19/25] iommu/arm-smmu-v3-kvm: Shadow STEs Mostafa Saleh
2026-05-01 11:19 ` [PATCH v6 20/25] iommu/arm-smmu-v3-kvm: Share other queues Mostafa Saleh
2026-05-01 11:19 ` [PATCH v6 21/25] iommu/arm-smmu-v3-kvm: Emulate GBPA Mostafa Saleh
2026-05-01 11:19 ` [PATCH v6 22/25] iommu/io-pgtable-arm: Support io-pgtable-arm in the hypervisor Mostafa Saleh
2026-05-01 11:19 ` [PATCH v6 23/25] iommu/arm-smmu-v3-kvm: Shadow the CPU stage-2 page table Mostafa Saleh
2026-05-01 11:19 ` [PATCH v6 24/25] iommu/arm-smmu-v3-kvm: Enable nesting Mostafa Saleh
2026-05-01 11:19 ` Mostafa Saleh [this message]
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