[PATCH v5 2/9] iommufd: Support a HWPT without an iommu driver for noiommu
From: Jacob Pan
Date: Mon May 11 2026 - 14:41:58 EST
From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@xxxxxxxxxx>
Create just a little part of a real iommu driver, enough to
slot in under the dev_iommu_ops() and allow iommufd to call
domain_alloc_paging_flags() and fail everything else.
This allows explicitly creating a HWPT under an IOAS.
A new Kconfig option IOMMUFD_NOIOMMU is introduced to differentiate
from the VFIO group/container based noiommu mode.
Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jacob Pan <jacob.pan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
v5:
- Use the new IOMMUFD_NOIOMMU Kconfig instead of VFIO_NOIOMMU
- Use consistent wording referring to VFIO noiommu mode (Kevin)
- Copyright date fix (Kevin)
v4:
- Make iommufd_noiommu_ops const
v3:
- Add comment to explain the design difference over the
legacy noiommu VFIO code.
---
drivers/iommu/iommufd/Kconfig | 13 +++
drivers/iommu/iommufd/Makefile | 1 +
drivers/iommu/iommufd/hw_pagetable.c | 15 +++-
drivers/iommu/iommufd/hwpt_noiommu.c | 102 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
drivers/iommu/iommufd/iommufd_private.h | 2 +
5 files changed, 131 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 drivers/iommu/iommufd/hwpt_noiommu.c
diff --git a/drivers/iommu/iommufd/Kconfig b/drivers/iommu/iommufd/Kconfig
index 455bac0351f2..74d6ea5b5b3b 100644
--- a/drivers/iommu/iommufd/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/iommu/iommufd/Kconfig
@@ -16,6 +16,19 @@ config IOMMUFD
If you don't know what to do here, say N.
if IOMMUFD
+config IOMMUFD_NOIOMMU
+ bool
+ depends on !GENERIC_ATOMIC64 # IOMMU_PT_AMDV1 requires cmpxchg64
+ select GENERIC_PT
+ select IOMMU_PT
+ select IOMMU_PT_AMDV1
+ help
+ Provides a SW-only IO page table for devices without hardware
+ IOMMU backing. This uses the AMDV1 page table format for
+ IOVA-to-PA lookups only, not for hardware DMA translation.
+
+ Selected by VFIO_CDEV_NOIOMMU. Not intended to be enabled directly.
+
config IOMMUFD_VFIO_CONTAINER
bool "IOMMUFD provides the VFIO container /dev/vfio/vfio"
depends on VFIO_GROUP && !VFIO_CONTAINER
diff --git a/drivers/iommu/iommufd/Makefile b/drivers/iommu/iommufd/Makefile
index 71d692c9a8f4..67207914bb6e 100644
--- a/drivers/iommu/iommufd/Makefile
+++ b/drivers/iommu/iommufd/Makefile
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ iommufd-y := \
vfio_compat.o \
viommu.o
+iommufd-$(CONFIG_IOMMUFD_NOIOMMU) += hwpt_noiommu.o
iommufd-$(CONFIG_IOMMUFD_TEST) += selftest.o
obj-$(CONFIG_IOMMUFD) += iommufd.o
diff --git a/drivers/iommu/iommufd/hw_pagetable.c b/drivers/iommu/iommufd/hw_pagetable.c
index fe789c2dc0c9..0ae14cd3fc72 100644
--- a/drivers/iommu/iommufd/hw_pagetable.c
+++ b/drivers/iommu/iommufd/hw_pagetable.c
@@ -8,6 +8,15 @@
#include "../iommu-priv.h"
#include "iommufd_private.h"
+static const struct iommu_ops *get_iommu_ops(struct iommufd_device *idev)
+{
+ if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_IOMMUFD_NOIOMMU) && !idev->igroup->group)
+ return &iommufd_noiommu_ops;
+ if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!idev->dev->iommu))
+ return NULL;
+ return dev_iommu_ops(idev->dev);
+}
+
static void __iommufd_hwpt_destroy(struct iommufd_hw_pagetable *hwpt)
{
if (hwpt->domain)
@@ -114,11 +123,13 @@ iommufd_hwpt_paging_alloc(struct iommufd_ctx *ictx, struct iommufd_ioas *ioas,
IOMMU_HWPT_ALLOC_DIRTY_TRACKING |
IOMMU_HWPT_FAULT_ID_VALID |
IOMMU_HWPT_ALLOC_PASID;
- const struct iommu_ops *ops = dev_iommu_ops(idev->dev);
+ const struct iommu_ops *ops = get_iommu_ops(idev);
struct iommufd_hwpt_paging *hwpt_paging;
struct iommufd_hw_pagetable *hwpt;
int rc;
+ if (!ops)
+ return ERR_PTR(-ENODEV);
lockdep_assert_held(&ioas->mutex);
if ((flags || user_data) && !ops->domain_alloc_paging_flags)
@@ -229,7 +240,7 @@ iommufd_hwpt_nested_alloc(struct iommufd_ctx *ictx,
struct iommufd_device *idev, u32 flags,
const struct iommu_user_data *user_data)
{
- const struct iommu_ops *ops = dev_iommu_ops(idev->dev);
+ const struct iommu_ops *ops = get_iommu_ops(idev);
struct iommufd_hwpt_nested *hwpt_nested;
struct iommufd_hw_pagetable *hwpt;
int rc;
diff --git a/drivers/iommu/iommufd/hwpt_noiommu.c b/drivers/iommu/iommufd/hwpt_noiommu.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..b1efc4bca880
--- /dev/null
+++ b/drivers/iommu/iommufd/hwpt_noiommu.c
@@ -0,0 +1,102 @@
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2026, NVIDIA CORPORATION & AFFILIATES
+ */
+#include <linux/iommu.h>
+#include <linux/generic_pt/iommu.h>
+#include "iommufd_private.h"
+
+static const struct iommu_domain_ops noiommu_amdv1_ops;
+
+struct noiommu_domain {
+ union {
+ struct iommu_domain domain;
+ struct pt_iommu_amdv1 amdv1;
+ };
+ spinlock_t lock;
+};
+PT_IOMMU_CHECK_DOMAIN(struct noiommu_domain, amdv1.iommu, domain);
+
+static void noiommu_change_top(struct pt_iommu *iommu_table,
+ phys_addr_t top_paddr, unsigned int top_level)
+{
+}
+
+static spinlock_t *noiommu_get_top_lock(struct pt_iommu *iommupt)
+{
+ struct noiommu_domain *domain =
+ container_of(iommupt, struct noiommu_domain, amdv1.iommu);
+
+ return &domain->lock;
+}
+
+static const struct pt_iommu_driver_ops noiommu_driver_ops = {
+ .get_top_lock = noiommu_get_top_lock,
+ .change_top = noiommu_change_top,
+};
+
+static struct iommu_domain *
+noiommu_alloc_paging_flags(struct device *dev, u32 flags,
+ const struct iommu_user_data *user_data)
+{
+ struct pt_iommu_amdv1_cfg cfg = {};
+ struct noiommu_domain *dom;
+ int rc;
+
+ if (flags || user_data)
+ return ERR_PTR(-EOPNOTSUPP);
+
+ cfg.common.hw_max_vasz_lg2 = 64;
+ cfg.common.hw_max_oasz_lg2 = 52;
+ cfg.starting_level = 2;
+ cfg.common.features =
+ (BIT(PT_FEAT_DYNAMIC_TOP) | BIT(PT_FEAT_AMDV1_ENCRYPT_TABLES) |
+ BIT(PT_FEAT_AMDV1_FORCE_COHERENCE));
+
+ dom = kzalloc(sizeof(*dom), GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!dom)
+ return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
+
+ spin_lock_init(&dom->lock);
+ dom->amdv1.iommu.nid = NUMA_NO_NODE;
+ dom->amdv1.iommu.driver_ops = &noiommu_driver_ops;
+ dom->domain.ops = &noiommu_amdv1_ops;
+
+ /* Use mock page table which is based on AMDV1 */
+ rc = pt_iommu_amdv1_init(&dom->amdv1, &cfg, GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (rc) {
+ kfree(dom);
+ return ERR_PTR(rc);
+ }
+
+ return &dom->domain;
+}
+
+static void noiommu_domain_free(struct iommu_domain *iommu_domain)
+{
+ struct noiommu_domain *domain =
+ container_of(iommu_domain, struct noiommu_domain, domain);
+
+ pt_iommu_deinit(&domain->amdv1.iommu);
+ kfree(domain);
+}
+
+/*
+ * AMDV1 is used as a SW-only page table for no-IOMMU mode, similar to the
+ * iommufd selftest mock page table.
+ * Unlike the VFIO group-container based no-IOMMU mode, where no container
+ * level APIs are supported, this allows IOAS and hwpt objects to exist
+ * without hardware IOMMU support. IOVAs are used only for IOVA-to-PA
+ * lookups not for hardware translation in DMA.
+ *
+ * This is only used with iommufd and cdev-based interfaces and does not
+ * apply to the VFIO group-container based noiommu mode.
+ */
+static const struct iommu_domain_ops noiommu_amdv1_ops = {
+ IOMMU_PT_DOMAIN_OPS(amdv1),
+ .free = noiommu_domain_free,
+};
+
+const struct iommu_ops iommufd_noiommu_ops = {
+ .domain_alloc_paging_flags = noiommu_alloc_paging_flags,
+};
diff --git a/drivers/iommu/iommufd/iommufd_private.h b/drivers/iommu/iommufd/iommufd_private.h
index 6ac1965199e9..2682b5baa6e9 100644
--- a/drivers/iommu/iommufd/iommufd_private.h
+++ b/drivers/iommu/iommufd/iommufd_private.h
@@ -464,6 +464,8 @@ static inline void iommufd_hw_pagetable_put(struct iommufd_ctx *ictx,
refcount_dec(&hwpt->obj.users);
}
+extern const struct iommu_ops iommufd_noiommu_ops;
+
struct iommufd_attach;
struct iommufd_group {
--
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