Re: [PATCH v16 22/45] KVM: arm64: CCA: Handle RMI_EXIT_RIPAS_CHANGE

Ackerley Tng <[email protected]> Wed, 5 Aug 2026 08:59:13 -0700
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Steven Price <[email protected]> writes:

> The guest can request that a region of its protected address space is
> switched between RIPAS_RAM and RIPAS_EMPTY (and back) using
> RSI_IPA_STATE_SET. This causes a guest exit with the
> RMI_EXIT_RIPAS_CHANGE code. We treat this as a request to convert a
> protected region to unprotected (or back), exiting to the VMM to make
> the necessary changes to the guest_memfd and memslot mappings. On the
> next entry the RIPAS changes are committed by making RMI_RTT_SET_RIPAS
> calls.
>
> The VMM may wish to reject the RIPAS change requested by the guest. For
> now it can only do this by no longer scheduling the VCPU as we don't
> currently have a usecase for returning that rejection to the guest, but
> by postponing the RMI_RTT_SET_RIPAS changes to entry we leave the door
> open for adding a new ioctl in the future for this purpose.
>
> Signed-off-by: Steven Price <[email protected]>
> ---
> Changes since v15:
>  * Propagate negative error returns.
> Changes since v14:
>  * Use addition rather than bitwise OR for adding the shared_bit in
>    realm_unmap_shared_range(), this handles the case where the region
>    includes the last address (which means 'end' already has the bit
>    set).
> Changes since v13:
>  * Switch to the new RMI_RTT_UNPROT_UNMAP range-based API.
>  * Drop ugly hack for RMM bug which errored when the RIPAS was already
>    set to the desired value.
> Changes since v12:
>  * Switch to the new RMM v2.0 RMI_RTT_DATA_UNMAP which can unmap an
>    address range.
> Changes since v11:
>  * Combine the "Allow VMM to set RIPAS" patch into this one to avoid
>    adding functions before they are used.
>  * Drop the CAP for setting RIPAS and adapt to changes from previous
>    patches.
> Changes since v10:
>  * Add comment explaining the assignment of rec->run->exit.ripas_base in
>    kvm_complete_ripas_change().
> Changes since v8:
>  * Make use of ripas_change() from a previous patch to implement
>    realm_set_ipa_state().
>  * Update exit.ripas_base after a RIPAS change so that, if instead of
>    entering the guest we exit to user space, we don't attempt to repeat
>    the RIPAS change (triggering an error from the RMM).
> Changes since v7:
>  * Rework the loop in realm_set_ipa_state() to make it clear when the
>    'next' output value of rmi_rtt_set_ripas() is used.
> New patch for v7: The code was previously split awkwardly between two
> other patches.
> ---
>  arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_rmi.h |   6 +
>  arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c             |   8 +-
>  arch/arm64/kvm/rmi.c             | 473 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  3 files changed, 484 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_rmi.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_rmi.h
> index 1e5026039458..751659a48be3 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_rmi.h
> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_rmi.h
> @@ -107,6 +107,12 @@ int kvm_rec_exit(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, int rec_run_status);
>  int kvm_rec_handle_request(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu);
>  bool kvm_rec_handle_hvc(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, int *ret);
>
> +void kvm_realm_unmap_range(struct kvm *kvm,
> +			   unsigned long ipa,
> +			   unsigned long size,
> +			   bool unmap_private,
> +			   bool may_block);
> +
>  static inline bool kvm_realm_is_private_address(struct realm *realm,
>  						unsigned long addr)
>  {

Coming here from guest_memfd, would like to look more closely at the
conversions-related stuff, and learn more about ARM CCA in the process :)

> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c
> index cd06881c1497..dcc2ab08d0e4 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c
> @@ -319,6 +319,7 @@ static void invalidate_icache_guest_page(void *va, size_t size)
>   * @start: The intermediate physical base address of the range to unmap
>   * @size:  The size of the area to unmap
>   * @may_block: Whether or not we are permitted to block
> + * @only_shared: If true then protected mappings should not be unmapped
>   *
>   * Clear a range of stage-2 mappings, lowering the various ref-counts.  Must
>   * be called while holding mmu_lock (unless for freeing the stage2 pgd before
> @@ -326,7 +327,7 @@ static void invalidate_icache_guest_page(void *va, size_t size)
>   * with things behind our backs.
>   */
>  static void __unmap_stage2_range(struct kvm_s2_mmu *mmu, phys_addr_t start, u64 size,
> -				 bool may_block)
> +				 bool may_block, bool only_shared)
>  {

Why convert attr_filter to a boolean, why not pass the filter through? I
think that might allow all the 3 states - unmapping private, unmapping
shared, and unmapping both. (Assuming unmapping none == not even calling
this function).

Also, perhaps it's better to add this parameter to
__unmap_stage2_range() together with the patch that uses the only_shared
information :)

I see that in [1] not changing __unmap_stage2_range() was going to be
explored, did that work out?

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]/

>  	struct kvm *kvm = kvm_s2_mmu_to_kvm(mmu);
>  	phys_addr_t end = start + size;
> @@ -343,7 +344,7 @@ void kvm_stage2_unmap_range(struct kvm_s2_mmu *mmu, phys_addr_t start,
>  	if (kvm_vm_is_protected(kvm_s2_mmu_to_kvm(mmu)))
>  		return;
>
> -	__unmap_stage2_range(mmu, start, size, may_block);
> +	__unmap_stage2_range(mmu, start, size, may_block, false);
>  }
>
>
> [...snip...]
>