[PATCH v3 3/3] arm64: realm: Use aliased addresses for device DMA to shared buffers

Catalin Marinas catalin.marinas at arm.com
Thu Feb 27 08:05:26 PST 2025


On Thu, Feb 27, 2025 at 02:41:50PM +0000, Suzuki K Poulose wrote:
> When a device performs DMA to a shared buffer using physical addresses,
> (without Stage1 translation), the device must use the "{I}PA address" with the
> top bit set in Realm. This is to make sure that a trusted device will be able
> to write to shared buffers as well as the protected buffers. Thus, a Realm must
> always program the full address including the "protection" bit, like AMD SME
> encryption bits.
> 
> Enable this by providing arm64 specific dma_addr_{encrypted, canonical}
> helpers for Realms. Please note that the VMM needs to similarly make sure that
> the SMMU Stage2 in the Non-secure world is setup accordingly to map IPA at the
> unprotected alias.
> 
> Cc: Will Deacon <will at kernel.org>
> Cc: Jean-Philippe Brucker <jean-philippe at linaro.org>
> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
> Cc: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy at arm.com>
> Cc: Steven Price <steven.price at arm.com>
> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de>
> Cc: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski at samsung.com>
> Cc: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky at amd.com>
> Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar at kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose at arm.com>

In case this goes in via the DMA API tree:

Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>

(we could bikeshed on the names like unencrypted vs decrypted but I'm
not fussed about)



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