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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,
	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 v7 24/24] KVM: arm64: Add documentation for pKVM DMA isolation
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2026 11:59:05 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260715115906.2664882-25-smostafa@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260715115906.2664882-1-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 | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/virt/kvm/arm/pkvm.rst b/Documentation/virt/kvm/arm/pkvm.rst
index 514992a79a83..ce67e2ae1f9a 100644
--- a/Documentation/virt/kvm/arm/pkvm.rst
+++ b/Documentation/virt/kvm/arm/pkvm.rst
@@ -77,7 +77,28 @@ 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.
+
+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 stages 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.
+
+The page tables for the stage-2 SMMUv3 will be allocated from a pool created
+at boot with size configured from the command line "kvm-arm.iommu_pgt_mem"
+The size must cover the worst case scenario for leaf mappings of system memory.
+
+This implementation trusts the system 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's
+responsibility to save/restore the SMMUv3 state.
 
 Proxying of Trustzone services
 ------------------------------
-- 
2.55.0.141.g00534a21ce-goog


      parent reply	other threads:[~2026-07-15 11:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-07-15 11:58 [PATCH v7 00/24] KVM: arm64: SMMUv3 driver for pKVM (trap and emulate) Mostafa Saleh
2026-07-15 11:58 ` [PATCH v7 01/24] KVM: arm64: Add a generic clock Mostafa Saleh
2026-07-15 13:48   ` Vincent Donnefort
2026-07-15 14:13     ` Mostafa Saleh
2026-07-15 14:34       ` Vincent Donnefort
2026-07-15 11:58 ` [PATCH v7 02/24] KVM: arm64: Donate MMIO to the hypervisor Mostafa Saleh
2026-07-15 17:26   ` Vincent Donnefort
2026-07-15 18:28     ` Mostafa Saleh
2026-07-15 11:58 ` [PATCH v7 03/24] iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Split code with hyp Mostafa Saleh
2026-07-15 11:58 ` [PATCH v7 04/24] iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Move TLB range invalidation into common code Mostafa Saleh
2026-07-15 11:58 ` [PATCH v7 05/24] iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Move IDR parsing to common functions Mostafa Saleh
2026-07-15 11:58 ` [PATCH v7 06/24] KVM: arm64: iommu: Introduce IOMMU driver infrastructure Mostafa Saleh
2026-07-15 11:58 ` [PATCH v7 07/24] KVM: arm64: iommu: Shadow host stage-2 page table Mostafa Saleh
2026-07-15 17:56   ` Vincent Donnefort
2026-07-15 18:43     ` Mostafa Saleh
2026-07-15 11:58 ` [PATCH v7 08/24] KVM: arm64: iommu: Add memory pool Mostafa Saleh
2026-07-15 11:58 ` [PATCH v7 09/24] KVM: arm64: iommu: Support DABT for IOMMU Mostafa Saleh
2026-07-15 11:58 ` [PATCH v7 10/24] iommu/arm-smmu-v3-kvm: Add SMMUv3 driver Mostafa Saleh
2026-07-15 11:58 ` [PATCH v7 11/24] iommu/arm-smmu-v3-kvm: Add the kernel driver Mostafa Saleh
2026-07-15 11:58 ` [PATCH v7 12/24] iommu/arm-smmu-v3-kvm: Probe SMMU HW Mostafa Saleh
2026-07-15 11:58 ` [PATCH v7 13/24] iommu/arm-smmu-v3-kvm: Add MMIO emulation Mostafa Saleh
2026-07-15 11:58 ` [PATCH v7 14/24] iommu/arm-smmu-v3-kvm: Shadow the command queue Mostafa Saleh
2026-07-15 11:58 ` [PATCH v7 15/24] iommu/arm-smmu-v3-kvm: Add CMDQ functions Mostafa Saleh
2026-07-15 11:58 ` [PATCH v7 16/24] iommu/arm-smmu-v3-kvm: Emulate CMDQ for host Mostafa Saleh
2026-07-15 11:58 ` [PATCH v7 17/24] iommu/arm-smmu-v3-kvm: Shadow stream table Mostafa Saleh
2026-07-15 11:58 ` [PATCH v7 18/24] iommu/arm-smmu-v3-kvm: Shadow STEs Mostafa Saleh
2026-07-15 11:59 ` [PATCH v7 19/24] iommu/arm-smmu-v3-kvm: Share other queues Mostafa Saleh
2026-07-15 11:59 ` [PATCH v7 20/24] iommu/arm-smmu-v3-kvm: Emulate GBPA Mostafa Saleh
2026-07-15 11:59 ` [PATCH v7 21/24] iommu/io-pgtable-arm: Support io-pgtable-arm in the hypervisor Mostafa Saleh
2026-07-15 11:59 ` [PATCH v7 22/24] iommu/arm-smmu-v3-kvm: Shadow the CPU stage-2 page table Mostafa Saleh
2026-07-15 11:59 ` [PATCH v7 23/24] iommu/arm-smmu-v3-kvm: Enable nesting Mostafa Saleh
2026-07-15 11:59 ` Mostafa Saleh [this message]

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