[PATCH v7 09/24] KVM: arm64: iommu: Support DABT for IOMMU

Mostafa Saleh smostafa at google.com
Wed Jul 15 04:58:50 PDT 2026


The pKVM SMMUv3 driver needs to trap and emulate access to the MMIO
space of the SMMUv3 to provide emulation for the kernel driver.

Add a handler for DABTs for IOMMU drivers to be able to do so.
In case the host causes a data abort, check if it's part of IOMMU
emulation first.

Signed-off-by: Mostafa Saleh <smostafa at google.com>
---
 arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/include/nvhe/iommu.h |  3 ++-
 arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/iommu.c         | 15 +++++++++++++++
 arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/mem_protect.c   | 15 +++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 32 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/include/nvhe/iommu.h b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/include/nvhe/iommu.h
index 028e89a3448d..8b7521135792 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/include/nvhe/iommu.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/include/nvhe/iommu.h
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
 struct pkvm_iommu_ops {
 	int (*init)(void);
 	int (*host_stage2_idmap)(phys_addr_t start, phys_addr_t end, int prot);
+	bool (*dabt_handler)(struct user_pt_regs *regs, u64 esr, u64 addr);
 };
 
 int pkvm_iommu_init(void *pool_base, unsigned int nr_pages);
@@ -19,5 +20,5 @@ int pkvm_iommu_host_stage2_idmap(phys_addr_t start, phys_addr_t end,
 void *pkvm_iommu_donate_pages(u8 order);
 /* Free pages from pkvm_iommu_donate_pages(). Must use same size */
 void pkvm_iommu_reclaim_pages(void *ptr);
-
+bool pkvm_iommu_host_dabt_handler(struct user_pt_regs *regs, u64 esr, u64 addr);
 #endif /* __ARM64_KVM_NVHE_IOMMU_H__ */
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/iommu.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/iommu.c
index 8891cb7920c4..8ea9c8c23985 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/iommu.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/iommu.c
@@ -4,6 +4,10 @@
  *
  * Copyright (C) 2022 Linaro Ltd.
  */
+#include <asm/kvm_hyp.h>
+
+#include <hyp/adjust_pc.h>
+
 #include <linux/iommu.h>
 #include <asm/kvm_pkvm.h>
 
@@ -157,3 +161,14 @@ void pkvm_iommu_reclaim_pages(void *ptr)
 {
 	hyp_put_page(&iommu_pages_pool, ptr);
 }
+
+bool pkvm_iommu_host_dabt_handler(struct user_pt_regs *regs, u64 esr, u64 addr)
+{
+	if (pkvm_iommu_ops && pkvm_iommu_ops->dabt_handler &&
+	    pkvm_iommu_ops->dabt_handler(regs, esr, addr)) {
+		/* DABT handled by the driver, skip to next instruction. */
+		kvm_skip_host_instr();
+		return true;
+	}
+	return false;
+}
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/mem_protect.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/mem_protect.c
index ce610274bda0..b798a36e0ddb 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/mem_protect.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/mem_protect.c
@@ -751,6 +751,12 @@ static void host_inject_mem_abort(struct kvm_cpu_context *host_ctxt)
 	inject_host_exception(esr);
 }
 
+static bool is_mmio_dabt(u64 esr)
+{
+	return (ESR_ELx_EC(esr) == ESR_ELx_EC_DABT_LOW) &&
+		(esr & ESR_ELx_ISV);
+}
+
 void handle_host_mem_abort(struct kvm_cpu_context *host_ctxt)
 {
 	struct kvm_vcpu_fault_info fault;
@@ -773,6 +779,15 @@ void handle_host_mem_abort(struct kvm_cpu_context *host_ctxt)
 	BUG_ON(!(fault.hpfar_el2 & HPFAR_EL2_NS));
 	addr = FIELD_GET(HPFAR_EL2_FIPA, fault.hpfar_el2) << 12;
 
+	/*
+	 * Emulate data aborts for IOMMU drivers, other access will be denied
+	 * by host_stage2_adjust_range()
+	 */
+	if (is_mmio_dabt(esr) && !addr_is_memory(addr) &&
+	    pkvm_iommu_host_dabt_handler(&host_ctxt->regs,
+					 esr, addr | FAR_TO_FIPA_OFFSET(fault.far_el2)))
+		return;
+
 	switch (host_stage2_idmap(addr)) {
 	case -EPERM:
 		host_inject_mem_abort(host_ctxt);
-- 
2.55.0.141.g00534a21ce-goog




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