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

From: Ackerley Tng

Date: Wed Aug 05 2026 - 12:04:32 EST


Steven Price <steven.price@xxxxxxx> 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 <steven.price@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> 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/3b8d49be-f031-4134-bd20-a8c51632f4ad@xxxxxxx/

> 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...]
>