[PATCH v19 00/20] KVM: arm64: CCA: Add basic plumbing for Realms
From: Suzuki K Poulose
Date: Sun Sep 20 2026 - 17:30:50 EST
This series is a trimmed down version of the Arm CCA KVM support, previously
posted here [0]. Like in the v17, we have tried to split the entire series
into the following chunks.
1) Base RMM RMI support under drivers/firmware/arm_rmm -> [1]
2) Linux Host support for handling GPFs - [2]
3) NEW: Enlighten KVM arm64 about the different VM types and use call
backs for the VM type, rather than spilling the is_this_type_of_vm()
everywhere. Adds VCPU and Stage2 MMU related callbacks with support
for the existing VM types. There are other places where we may be
able to abstract, but those need careful performance evaluations
to make sure they are fit (e.g., vcpu_run)
With that in place we generalise the predicate "kvm_vm_is_protected()"
to cover all "Confidential" VMs (which includes Protected VM and Realms),
allowing us to handle common themes without having to do things like :
if (kvm_vm_is_protected() || kvm_vm_is_realm())
Also replaces the code with precise check for a given VM type to
avoiding combination of if (). e.g,, kvm_vm_is_unprotected_pkvm(kvm).
The checks under arch/arm64/kvm/{nvhe,pkvm} still retain the vm_is_protected()
check as pVMs are the only possible protected VMs there.
4) Bare minimal Realm VM support without the actual functionality to
run a Realm. This would help the maintainers to review the series in
smaller chunks. This doesn't depend on [1] and can be independently
merged, without being "functional".
This series includes vcpu operations and the s2 vm operations, which
do need the RMI driver backend to be meaningful. But the KVM handler
is in the right shape. The remaining changes would be added once the
RMI firmware library lands. Also covers the SET_ONE_REG/GET_ONE_REG
5) Core implementation of the RMI driver for KVM and actual enablement of the
Realm support. This depends on (1), (2) and the guest-memfd-in-place
conversion series v12 from Ackerley. This is available here at the integration
branch [3]
This series is comprised of (3) and (4) above.
The integration branch has been tested with the following components:
tf-RMM: main branch (commit 5e6e2acd) compliant to RMM-v2.0-beta3 [4]
kvmtool: git@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:linux-arm/kvmtool-cca.git cca/kvm-v18
[0] Arm CCA KVM Support v16 : https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260803134403.80630-1-steven.price@xxxxxxx
[1] Linux firmware RMI https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260912083611.2513845-1-suzuki.poulose@xxxxxxx
[2] Linux GPF Host https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260913070459.2547407-1-suzuki.poulose@xxxxxxx
[3] https://git.gitlab.arm.com/linux-arm/linux-cca/ cca/cca-host/kvm-v19/integration
[4] https://support.arm.com/documentation/den0137/2-0bet3/
Changes since v18:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260915160141.3543048-1-suzuki.poulose@xxxxxxx
- Patch count down by 3, after merging different patches together, see more below
- Retain NULL vm_offset for pVMs and move the counter offset flag initialisation
to kvm_timer_init_vm() - Marc
- Merge widening the scope of kvm_vm_is_protected() to the patch where the
flavors are introduced(Marc) and also dropped Fuad's reviewed-by, as the
patch is now bigger.
- Merge "Use kvm_vm_is_unprotected_pkvm" for !kvm_vm_is_protected to patch
where flavor is introuced.
- Merge "vgic-v3" mandate and preventing vgic-v2 mappings to a single patch,
where kvm_vm_hyp_is_distrusting() introduced - Fuad
- Drop kvm_vm_hyp_is_pkvm(), reverting to is_protected_kvm_enabled()
- Use is_protected_kvm_enabeld() for pKVM guest flavor checks.
- s/PKVM/pKVM for commit descriptions too
- Make sure the vm_mem_abort callback is !NULL at init time.
- Bail out early for !pKVM && !Realm VMs in kvm_vm_ioctl_allowed(). Use
kvm_vm_hyp_is_distrusting()
- WARN_ON_ONCE(!kvm) for kvm_vm_ioctl_allowed() as it must be only called with
a valid kvm instance and only from kvm_arch_vm_ioctl()
- Rename kvm_arch_vm_{ext,ioctl}_allowed => kvm_vm_{ext,ioctl}_allowed - Fuad
- Move kvm_realm_ext_allowed() to asm/kvm_rmi.h - Fuad
- Don't expose PMCR_EL0 to the userspace until we support PMU
Changes since v17:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260908162223.1683432-1-suzuki.poulose@xxxxxxx
- Add a patch to fix pKVM handling of SYS_CNTVCT/CNTPCT to override the counter
offset (Patch1)
- Restrict Realms to VGIC v3 only - New patch
- Add kvm_vm_is_unprotected() to replace is_protected_kvm_enabled() &&
!kvm_vm_is_protected() - New patch
- Use macro to initialize the per-flavor vcpu, s2_vm ops
- Add a wrapper to initialise vcpu and s2_vm ops with a BUILD_BUG_ON()
for the array size checks against VM flavour types
- Drop forward decalaration of the vcpu, s2_vm operations that spoiled the
fun ;-)
- Remove irrelevant comment about the order of timer loading for !VHE
- Use the explicti kvm_call_hyp_nvhe for pKVM specific ops
- Don't call nvhe_vcpu_put from pkvm_vcpu_put, open code them
- Drop cpu argument for vcpu_load() callback. We set the cpu
before the callbacks are invoked
- Drop kvm_vm_is_confidential(), instead widen the scope of kvm_vm_is_protected()
to cover pVMs and Realms. Add an explicit helper kvm_vm_is_protected_pkvm()
for the cases where we need to check for a "pVM on pKVM"
- Add kvm_vm_hyp_is_pkvm() for checking if the VM is running on pKVM.
covers both unprotected and pvms. But really uses is_protected_kvm_enabled()
under the hood
- Add kvm_vm_hyp_is_distrusting() to cover pKVM guests (both protected and
unprotected) and Realms. Use this for preventing the vgic v2 mapping into
Stage2 for a guest
- Drop superfluous !kvm check from kvm_vm_ioctl_enable_cap() - Sashiko
- Drop KVM_CAP_CREATE_IRQCHIP, as we don't support VGIC_V2 for Realms
- Filter out the vm_ioctls that are based on blocked cap.
- Repurpose the pkvm plumbing for filtering the caps and ioctl to generic
and plumb the Realm support in
- s/PKVM/pKVM for the comments
- Drop type argument for pkvm_init_host_vm and also drop protected variable,
now that we have the vm_flavor to check.
- Use kvm_vm_hyp_is_pkvm() to replace is_protected_kvm_enabled() with valid
kvm instance
- CCA: Merge the GET/SET REG handling patches into a single patch
- CCA: Reword the commit description for SVE VL access handling
- Reordered the patches to group the Realm realted to changes to the rear end
Jean-Philippe Brucker (2):
KVM: arm64: CCA: Expose SVE VL register before VCPU finalization
KVM: arm64: CCA: Control user register access for Realms
Steven Price (4):
KVM: arm64: Avoid including linux/kvm_host.h in kvm_pgtable.h
KVM: arm64: CCA: Introduce Realms
KVM: arm64: CCA: WARN on injected undef exceptions
KVM: arm64: CCA: Support timers in realm RECs
Suzuki K Poulose (14):
KVM: arm64: protected VM: Handle user writes to CNTVCT_EL0/CNTPCT_EL0
KVM: arm64: Disable Steal time accounting for protected guests
KVM: arm64: Include kvm_emulate.h in kvm/arm_psci.h
KVM: arm64: Track the type of VM in kvm_arch
KVM: arm64: Refactor the vcpu_load to allow for VM specific callbacks
KVM: arm64: Add vcpu load/put call backs for flavors
KVM: arm64: Reuse kvm_stage2_unmap_range in kvm_unmap_gfn_range
KVM: arm64: Add VM specific callback for S2 MMU operations
KVM: arm64: Abstract out memory abort handling
KVM: arm64: Mandate VGIC v3 for for VMs running on hyp that don't
trust the host
KVM: arm64: CCA: Add a new mode for supporting Realm guests
KVM: arm64: CCA: Add VCPU load/put for Realms
KVM: arm64: CCA: Add bare minimal S2 operations for Realm
KVM: arm64: CCA: Don't expose unsupported capabilities for realm
guests
.../admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 3 +
arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_emulate.h | 16 +
arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 69 +++-
arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_pgtable.h | 6 +-
arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_pkvm.h | 25 +-
arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_rmi.h | 84 +++++
arch/arm64/include/asm/virt.h | 1 +
arch/arm64/kvm/Makefile | 2 +-
arch/arm64/kvm/arch_timer.c | 34 +-
arch/arm64/kvm/arm.c | 300 +++++++++++++++---
arch/arm64/kvm/guest.c | 73 ++++-
arch/arm64/kvm/handle_exit.c | 2 +-
arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/pkvm.c | 6 +-
arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/pgtable.c | 1 +
arch/arm64/kvm/hypercalls.c | 4 +-
arch/arm64/kvm/inject_fault.c | 1 +
arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c | 210 +++++++++---
arch/arm64/kvm/pkvm.c | 6 +-
arch/arm64/kvm/pvtime.c | 14 +-
arch/arm64/kvm/rmi.c | 18 ++
arch/arm64/kvm/sys_regs.c | 28 +-
arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-init.c | 2 +
include/kvm/arm_psci.h | 2 +
23 files changed, 752 insertions(+), 155 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_rmi.h
create mode 100644 arch/arm64/kvm/rmi.c
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