[RFC PATCH 00/11] iommu/riscv: Add hardware dirty tracking for second-stage domains

From: fangyu . yu

Date: Tue Apr 28 2026 - 10:49:59 EST


From: Fangyu Yu <fangyu.yu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

The RISC-V IOMMU architecture defines an AMO_HWAD capability (Hardware
Access/Dirty update) that allows the IOMMU to atomically set the A/D bits
in second-stage PTEs on DMA access. When DC.tc.GADE is asserted, the IOMMU
autonomously sets D on the first write to a page mapped by an iohgatp
domain. This series wires that capability up to the iommufd dirty-tracking
interface (IOMMU_HWPT_SET_DIRTY_TRACKING / IOMMU_HWPT_GET_DIRTY_BITMAP) and
reports IOMMU_CAP_DIRTY_TRACKING.

Design notes
------------

* The feature is scoped to second-stage (iohgatp) domains only; these are
the domains created for KVM / VFIO device pass-through when userspace
allocates an HWPT with IOMMU_HWPT_ALLOC_NEST_PARENT or
IOMMU_HWPT_ALLOC_DIRTY_TRACKING. First-stage (iosatp) domains are not
touched by this series.

* The page-table side plugs into the existing generic_pt dirty hook
framework (amdv1 / vtdss style). RISC-V adds the three required PTE
ops – is_write_dirty / make_write_clean / make_write_dirty.

Testing
-------

* Test on QEMU RISC-V, a virtio-net and an e1000e device was passed through
to an L2 guest via vfio-pci + iommufd.

* generic_pt KUnit: the existing test_dirty case now runs and passes for
the RISC-V 64-bit format.

Follow-up work
--------------
* Build a dedicated end-to-end test case that drives the full flow
(HWPT_ALLOC with DIRTY_TRACKING -> attach -> IOAS_MAP -> generate real
DMA -> SET_DIRTY_TRACKING -> GET_DIRTY_BITMAP -> verify bitmap against
expected IOVA footprint) so that the behaviour can be regression-tested
beyond the KUnit PTE-level coverage.

* If possible, rebase and retest on top of the updated "iommu irqbypass"
patchset.


Fangyu Yu (6):
iommupt: Add RISC-V Second-stage (iohgatp) page table support
iommu/riscv: Add domain_alloc_paging_flags for second-stage domain
iommupt: Don't preset D when RISC-V IOMMU dirty tracking on
iommu/riscv: Add dirty tracking support for second-stage domains
iommu/riscv: Add IOTINVAL.GVMA after updating DDT/PDT entries
iommupt: Add RISC-V dirty tracking PTE ops

Tomasz Jeznach (2):
iommu/riscv: report iommu capabilities
RISC-V: KVM: Enable KVM_VFIO interfaces on RISC-V arch

Zong Li (3):
iommu/riscv: use data structure instead of individual values
iommu/riscv: support GSCID and GVMA invalidation command
iommu/riscv: support nested iommu for getting iommu hardware
information

arch/riscv/kvm/Kconfig | 2 +
drivers/iommu/generic_pt/fmt/riscv.h | 120 ++++++++++++-
drivers/iommu/riscv/iommu-bits.h | 7 +
drivers/iommu/riscv/iommu.c | 247 +++++++++++++++++++++++----
include/linux/generic_pt/common.h | 13 ++
include/linux/generic_pt/iommu.h | 17 +-
include/uapi/linux/iommufd.h | 18 ++
7 files changed, 383 insertions(+), 41 deletions(-)

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