[PATCH v2 00/12] KVM: arm64: CCA: Prepare Realm memory management

From: Steven Price

Date: Wed Nov 11 2026 - 10:06:59 EST


This series adds the memory management plumbing for CCA, building on the
basic RMM support [1]. Thank you to those who reviewed v1 - I'm
attempted to address all the comments.

The patches introduce internal Realm VM state and RMI feature checks,
prepare Realm stage-2 setup and teardown, and provide RTT mapping and
invalidation helpers. Realm memslots are restricted to the lower half
of the IPA space because the protected and shared halves alias each
other. The final patch connects the helpers to KVM's stage-2 MMU
operations.

This is the memory management portion of the larger Realm host series.
Realm descriptor creation, REC entry and exit, activation, and the new
uAPI follow in the integration stack. This series alone does not enable
Realm creation.

As before there's an integration branch[2] that includes the realm
creation, REC entry/exit etc building on top of this series. I've also
pushed a git branch[3] of just this series.

Changes since v1:
- Add a guest_memfd prerequisite patch that checks whether the backing
file supports mmap when preparing an arm64 memslot.
- Combine the RMI availability and feature checks into one patch, and
move Realm vCPU feature restrictions to the integration stack.
- Correct Realm IPA sizing and RTT teardown, including teardown before
activation, RTT accounting, and handling of missing or folded RTTs.
- Rework RTT mapping to respect IPA and physical alignment, handle
partial RMI progress, and retry interrupted operations.
- Preserve private mappings when a Realm guest_memfd memslot deletion is
rejected, and tighten Realm fault handling and stage-2 destruction.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20261007073537.2454351-1-suzuki.poulose@xxxxxxx/
[2] https://gitlab.arm.com/linux-arm/linux-cca
branch: cca-host-mm/v2/integration
[3] https://gitlab.arm.com/linux-arm/linux-cca
branch: cca-host-mm/v2/mm

Steven Price (7):
KVM: arm64: CCA: Reserve the RMM mode
KVM: arm64: guest_memfd: Check mmap support when preparing memslot
KVM: arm64: CCA: Check RMI support and features at init
KVM: arm64: CCA: Add basic infrastructure for creating a realm
KVM: arm64: CCA: Tear down RTTs
KVM: arm64: CCA: Add Realm RTT mapping and invalidation helpers
KVM: arm64: CCA: Support runtime faulting of memory

Suzuki K Poulose (5):
KVM: arm64: CCA: Introduce Realms
KVM: arm64: Handle attributes in stage2_unmap_range
KVM: Allow architectures to reject memslot changes before invalidation
KVM: arm64: CCA: Prevent memslot modifications after Realm creation
KVM: arm64: CCA: Add Realm stage-2 MMU operations

arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_emulate.h | 29 +
arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 53 +-
arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_mmu.h | 4 +-
arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_rmi.h | 104 +++
arch/arm64/include/asm/virt.h | 1 +
arch/arm64/kvm/Kconfig | 1 +
arch/arm64/kvm/Makefile | 2 +-
arch/arm64/kvm/arm.c | 21 +-
arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/include/nvhe/pkvm.h | 2 +-
arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/switch.c | 4 +-
arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/timer-sr.c | 2 +-
arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c | 311 +++++++--
arch/arm64/kvm/pkvm.c | 4 +-
arch/arm64/kvm/psci.c | 2 +-
arch/arm64/kvm/rmi.c | 883 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
drivers/firmware/arm_rmm/rmi.c | 10 -
include/linux/arm-rmi-cmds.h | 13 +
include/linux/kvm_host.h | 5 +
virt/kvm/guest_memfd.c | 6 +
virt/kvm/kvm_main.c | 33 +-
20 files changed, 1391 insertions(+), 99 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_rmi.h
create mode 100644 arch/arm64/kvm/rmi.c

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