Re: [PATCH v4 02/28] KVM: arm64: Donate MMIO to the hypervisor

Pranjal Shrivastava
2025-09-14T20:41:12Z

On Tue, Aug 19, 2025 at 09:51:30PM +0000, Mostafa Saleh wrote:
> Add a function to donate MMIO to the hypervisor so IOMMU hypervisor
> drivers can use that to protect the MMIO of IOMMU.
> The initial attempt to implement this was to have a new flag to
> "___pkvm_host_donate_hyp" to accept MMIO. However that had many problems,
> it was quite intrusive for host/hyp to check/set page state to make it
> aware of MMIO and to encode the state in the page table in that case.
> Which is called in paths that can be sensitive to performance (FFA, VMs..)
>
> As donating MMIO is very rare, and we don’t need to encode the full state,
> it’s reasonable to have a separate function to do this.
> It will init the host s2 page table with an invalid leaf with the owner ID
> to prevent the host from mapping the page on faults.
>
> Also, prevent kvm_pgtable_stage2_unmap() from removing owner ID from
> stage-2 PTEs, as this can be triggered from recycle logic under memory
> pressure. There is no code relying on this, as all ownership changes is
> done via kvm_pgtable_stage2_set_owner()
>
> For error path in IOMMU drivers, add a function to donate MMIO back
> from hyp to host.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mostafa Saleh <smostafa@google.com>
> ---
> arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/include/nvhe/mem_protect.h | 2 +
> arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/mem_protect.c | 64 +++++++++++++++++++
> arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/pgtable.c | 9 +--
> 3 files changed, 68 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/include/nvhe/mem_protect.h b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/include/nvhe/mem_protect.h
> index 52d7ee91e18c..98e173da0f9b 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/include/nvhe/mem_protect.h
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/include/nvhe/mem_protect.h
> @@ -37,6 +37,8 @@ int __pkvm_host_share_hyp(u64 pfn);
> int __pkvm_host_unshare_hyp(u64 pfn);
> int __pkvm_host_donate_hyp(u64 pfn, u64 nr_pages);
> int ___pkvm_host_donate_hyp(u64 pfn, u64 nr_pages, enum kvm_pgtable_prot prot);
> +int __pkvm_host_donate_hyp_mmio(u64 pfn);
> +int __pkvm_hyp_donate_host_mmio(u64 pfn);
> int __pkvm_hyp_donate_host(u64 pfn, u64 nr_pages);
> int __pkvm_host_share_ffa(u64 pfn, u64 nr_pages);
> int __pkvm_host_unshare_ffa(u64 pfn, u64 nr_pages);
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/mem_protect.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/mem_protect.c
> index 861e448183fd..c9a15ef6b18d 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/mem_protect.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/mem_protect.c
> @@ -799,6 +799,70 @@ int ___pkvm_host_donate_hyp(u64 pfn, u64 nr_pages, enum kvm_pgtable_prot prot)
> return ret;
> }
>
> +int __pkvm_host_donate_hyp_mmio(u64 pfn)
> +{
> + u64 phys = hyp_pfn_to_phys(pfn);
> + void *virt = __hyp_va(phys);
> + int ret;
> + kvm_pte_t pte;
> +
> + host_lock_component();
> + hyp_lock_component();
> +
> + ret = kvm_pgtable_get_leaf(&host_mmu.pgt, phys, &pte, NULL);
> + if (ret)
> + goto unlock;
> +
> + if (pte && !kvm_pte_valid(pte)) {
> + ret = -EPERM;
> + goto unlock;
> + }
> +
> + ret = kvm_pgtable_get_leaf(&pkvm_pgtable, (u64)virt, &pte, NULL);
> + if (ret)
> + goto unlock;
> + if (pte) {
> + ret = -EBUSY;
> + goto unlock;
> + }

I'm thinking of a situation where both of these checks might be
necessary.. The first check seems to confirm if the page being donated
isn't set up to trap in the hyp (i.e. the donor/host doesn't own the
page anymore).

However, the second check seems to check if the pfn is already mapped
in the hyp's space. Is this check only to catch errorneous donations of
a shared page or is there something else?

> +
> + ret = pkvm_create_mappings_locked(virt, virt + PAGE_SIZE, PAGE_HYP_DEVICE);
> + if (ret)
> + goto unlock;
> + /*
> + * We set HYP as the owner of the MMIO pages in the host stage-2, for:
> + * - host aborts: host_stage2_adjust_range() would fail for invalid non zero PTEs.
> + * - recycle under memory pressure: host_stage2_unmap_dev_all() would call
> + * kvm_pgtable_stage2_unmap() which will not clear non zero invalid ptes (counted).
> + * - other MMIO donation: Would fail as we check that the PTE is valid or empty.
> + */
> + WARN_ON(host_stage2_try(kvm_pgtable_stage2_set_owner, &host_mmu.pgt, phys,
> + PAGE_SIZE, &host_s2_pool, PKVM_ID_HYP));
> +unlock:
> + hyp_unlock_component();
> + host_unlock_component();
> +
> + return ret;
> +}
> +
> +int __pkvm_hyp_donate_host_mmio(u64 pfn)
> +{
> + u64 phys = hyp_pfn_to_phys(pfn);
> + u64 virt = (u64)__hyp_va(phys);
> + size_t size = PAGE_SIZE;
> +
> + host_lock_component();
> + hyp_lock_component();
> +
> + WARN_ON(kvm_pgtable_hyp_unmap(&pkvm_pgtable, virt, size) != size);
> + WARN_ON(host_stage2_try(kvm_pgtable_stage2_set_owner, &host_mmu.pgt, phys,
> + PAGE_SIZE, &host_s2_pool, PKVM_ID_HOST));
> + hyp_unlock_component();
> + host_unlock_component();
> +
> + return 0;
> +}
> +
> int __pkvm_host_donate_hyp(u64 pfn, u64 nr_pages)
> {
> return ___pkvm_host_donate_hyp(pfn, nr_pages, PAGE_HYP);
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/pgtable.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/pgtable.c
> index c351b4abd5db..ba06b0c21d5a 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/pgtable.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/pgtable.c
> @@ -1095,13 +1095,8 @@ static int stage2_unmap_walker(const struct kvm_pgtable_visit_ctx *ctx,
> kvm_pte_t *childp = NULL;
> bool need_flush = false;
>
> - if (!kvm_pte_valid(ctx->old)) {
> - if (stage2_pte_is_counted(ctx->old)) {
> - kvm_clear_pte(ctx->ptep);
> - mm_ops->put_page(ctx->ptep);
> - }
> - return 0;
> - }
> + if (!kvm_pte_valid(ctx->old))
> + return stage2_pte_is_counted(ctx->old) ? -EPERM : 0;
>
> if (kvm_pte_table(ctx->old, ctx->level)) {
> childp = kvm_pte_follow(ctx->old, mm_ops);
> --

Thanks
Praan