[RFC PATCH] dma: swiotlb: Size shared default pools for memory encryption
Aneesh Kumar K.V
aneesh.kumar at kernel.org
Wed Aug 12 04:31:33 PDT 2026
Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com> writes:
>
> I also wonder whether we could address Will's pKVM request not to
> allocate a bounce buffer once pKVM guests will start reporting
> CC_ATTR_GUEST_MEM_ENCRYPT. Some simple heuristic: if a
> restricted-dma-pool is advertised in DT (it will end up in
> rmem_swiotlb_setup()), skip resizing the default swiotlb. It's not
> perfect but the bounce buffer can be overridden on the command line.
I have a follow-up cleanup patch where I switch the swiotlb
initialization reason to a flag value. With that, we now have
SWIOTLB_INIT_CC_SHARED.
The challenge is that it is still not clear when pKVM would want to use
an unencrypted swiotlb pool for DMA bouncing. I would expect pKVM to
have some additional condition based on which it chooses either the
restricted-dma-pool or the default swiotlb pool.
Using the presence of a restricted-dma-pool to decide whether the
default swiotlb pool should be unencrypted is one option, but I am not
sure that is the right abstraction.
modified arch/arm64/mm/init.c
@@ -342,7 +342,7 @@ void __init arch_mm_preinit(void)
bool cc_guest = is_realm_world();
if (cc_guest)
- swiotlb_mark_default_cc_shared();
+ flags |= SWIOTLB_INIT_CC_SHARED;
else if (max_pfn > PFN_DOWN(arm64_dma_phys_limit))
flags |= SWIOTLB_INIT_ADDRESSING_LIMIT;
modified arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c
@@ -289,9 +289,8 @@ void __init arch_mm_preinit(void)
#ifdef CONFIG_SWIOTLB
if (is_secure_guest()) {
/* The host can access DMA buffers only through the SWIOTLB. */
- swiotlb_mark_default_cc_shared();
ppc_swiotlb_enable = 1;
- ppc_swiotlb_flags |= SWIOTLB_ANY;
+ ppc_swiotlb_flags |= SWIOTLB_INIT_CC_SHARED | SWIOTLB_ANY;
}
/*
modified arch/s390/mm/init.c
@@ -163,12 +163,10 @@ static void __init pv_init(void)
if (!is_prot_virt_guest())
return;
- swiotlb_mark_default_cc_shared();
-
virtio_set_mem_acc_cb(virtio_require_restricted_mem_acc);
/* make sure bounce buffers are shared */
- swiotlb_init(SWIOTLB_VERBOSE);
+ swiotlb_init(SWIOTLB_VERBOSE | SWIOTLB_INIT_CC_SHARED);
swiotlb_update_mem_attributes();
}
modified arch/x86/mm/mem_encrypt.c
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
#include <linux/mem_encrypt.h>
#include <linux/virtio_anchor.h>
+#include <asm/iommu.h>
#include <asm/sev.h>
/* Override for DMA direct allocation check - ARCH_HAS_FORCE_DMA_UNENCRYPTED */
@@ -109,7 +110,7 @@ void __init mem_encrypt_setup_arch(void)
snp_fixup_e820_tables();
if (cc_platform_has(CC_ATTR_MEM_ENCRYPT))
- swiotlb_mark_default_cc_shared();
+ x86_swiotlb_flags |= SWIOTLB_INIT_CC_SHARED;
if (!cc_platform_has(CC_ATTR_GUEST_MEM_ENCRYPT))
return;
modified include/linux/swiotlb.h
@@ -18,6 +18,8 @@ struct scatterlist;
#define SWIOTLB_ANY (1 << 1) /* allow any memory for the buffer */
/* Initialize a default-sized pool for devices with limited DMA addressing. */
#define SWIOTLB_INIT_ADDRESSING_LIMIT (1 << 2)
+/* Initialize a shared default pool for confidential-computing systems. */
+#define SWIOTLB_INIT_CC_SHARED (1 << 3)
/*
* Maximum allowable number of contiguous slabs to map,
@@ -191,7 +193,6 @@ void swiotlb_dev_init(struct device *dev);
size_t swiotlb_max_mapping_size(struct device *dev);
bool is_swiotlb_allocated(void);
bool is_swiotlb_active(struct device *dev);
-void __init swiotlb_mark_default_cc_shared(void);
void __init swiotlb_adjust_size(unsigned long size);
phys_addr_t default_swiotlb_base(void);
phys_addr_t default_swiotlb_limit(void);
@@ -231,10 +232,6 @@ static inline bool is_swiotlb_active(struct device *dev)
return false;
}
-static inline void swiotlb_mark_default_cc_shared(void)
-{
-}
-
static inline void swiotlb_adjust_size(unsigned long size)
{
}
modified kernel/dma/swiotlb.c
@@ -373,11 +373,6 @@ static void __init *swiotlb_memblock_alloc(unsigned long nslabs,
return tlb;
}
-void __init swiotlb_mark_default_cc_shared(void)
-{
- io_tlb_default_mem.cc_shared = true;
-}
-
static void __init swiotlb_adjust_cc_attributes(void)
{
unsigned long size;
@@ -429,7 +424,7 @@ static bool __init swiotlb_should_init(unsigned int flags)
if (swiotlb_force_bounce)
return true;
- if (io_tlb_default_mem.cc_shared)
+ if (flags & SWIOTLB_INIT_CC_SHARED)
return true;
return false;
@@ -451,6 +446,9 @@ void __init swiotlb_init_remap(unsigned int flags,
if (!swiotlb_should_init(flags))
return;
+ if (flags & SWIOTLB_INIT_CC_SHARED)
+ io_tlb_default_mem.cc_shared = true;
+
io_tlb_default_mem.force_bounce = swiotlb_force_bounce;
#ifdef CONFIG_SWIOTLB_DYNAMIC
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