[PATCH v14 08/44] arm64: RMI: Ensure that the RMM has GPT entries for memory
Gavin Shan
gshan at redhat.com
Wed May 20 17:58:48 PDT 2026
Hi Steven,
On 5/13/26 11:17 PM, Steven Price wrote:
> The RMM maintains the state of all the granules in the system to make
> sure that the host is abiding by the rules. This state can be maintained
> at different granularity, per page (TRACKING_FINE) or per region
> (TRACKING_COARSE). The region size depends on the underlying
> "RMI_GRANULE_SIZE". For a "coarse" region all pages in the region must
> be of the same state, this implies we need to have "fine" tracking for
> DRAM, so that we can delegated individual pages.
>
> For now we only support a statically carved out memory for tracking
> granules for the "fine" regions. This can be extended in the future to
> allow modifying the tracking granularity and remove the need for a
> static allocation.
>
> Similarly, the firmware may create L0 GPT entries describing the total
> address space. But if we change the "PAS" (Physical Address Space) of a
> granule then the firmware may need to create L1 tables to track the PAS
> at a finer granularity.
>
> Note: support is currently missing for SROs which means that if the RMM
> needs memory donating this will fail (and render CCA unusable in Linux).
> This effectively means that the L1 GPT tables must be created before
> Linux starts.
>
> Signed-off-by: Steven Price <steven.price at arm.com>
> ---
> Changes since v13:
> * Moved out of KVM
> ---
> arch/arm64/include/asm/rmi_cmds.h | 2 +
> arch/arm64/kernel/rmi.c | 103 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 2 files changed, 105 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/rmi_cmds.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/rmi_cmds.h
> index 9179934925c5..9078a2920a7c 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/rmi_cmds.h
> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/rmi_cmds.h
> @@ -33,6 +33,8 @@ struct rmi_sro_state {
> } while (RMI_RETURN_STATUS(res.a0) == RMI_BUSY || \
> RMI_RETURN_STATUS(res.a0) == RMI_BLOCKED)
>
> +bool rmi_is_available(void);
> +
> unsigned long rmi_sro_execute(struct rmi_sro_state *sro, gfp_t gfp);
> void rmi_sro_free(struct rmi_sro_state *sro);
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/rmi.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/rmi.c
> index a14ead5dedda..52a415e99500 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/rmi.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/rmi.c
> @@ -7,6 +7,8 @@
>
> #include <asm/rmi_cmds.h>
>
> +static bool arm64_rmi_is_available;
> +
> unsigned long rmm_feat_reg0;
> unsigned long rmm_feat_reg1;
>
> @@ -88,6 +90,102 @@ static int rmi_configure(void)
> return 0;
> }
>
> +/*
> + * For now we set the tracking_region_size to 0 for RMI_RMM_CONFIG_SET().
> + * TODO: Support other tracking sizes (via Kconfig option).
> + */
> +#ifdef CONFIG_PAGE_SIZE_4KB
> +#define RMM_GRANULE_TRACKING_SIZE SZ_1G
> +#elif defined(CONFIG_PAGE_SIZE_16KB)
> +#define RMM_GRANULE_TRACKING_SIZE SZ_32M
> +#elif defined(CONFIG_PAGE_SIZE_64KB)
> +#define RMM_GRANULE_TRACKING_SIZE SZ_512M
> +#endif
> +
RMM_GRANULE_TRACKING_SIZE is never used in this series.
> +/*
> + * Make sure the area is tracked by RMM at FINE granularity.
> + * We do not support changing the tracking yet.
> + */
> +static int rmi_verify_memory_tracking(phys_addr_t start, phys_addr_t end)
> +{
> + while (start < end) {
> + unsigned long ret, category, state, next;
> +
> + ret = rmi_granule_tracking_get(start, end, &category, &state, &next);
> + if (ret != RMI_SUCCESS ||
> + state != RMI_TRACKING_FINE ||
> + category != RMI_MEM_CATEGORY_CONVENTIONAL) {
> + /* TODO: Set granule tracking in this case */
> + pr_err("Granule tracking for region isn't fine/conventional: %llx",
> + start);
> + return -ENODEV;
> + }
> + start = next;
> + }
> +
> + return 0;
> +}
> +
> +static unsigned long rmi_l0gpt_size(void)
> +{
> + return 1UL << (30 + FIELD_GET(RMI_FEATURE_REGISTER_1_L0GPTSZ,
> + rmm_feat_reg1));
> +}
> +
rmi_l0gpt_size() is only used by rmi_create_gpts(), its logic can be
combined to that function.
> +static int rmi_create_gpts(phys_addr_t start, phys_addr_t end)
> +{
> + unsigned long l0gpt_sz = rmi_l0gpt_size();
> +
> + start = ALIGN_DOWN(start, l0gpt_sz);
> + end = ALIGN(end, l0gpt_sz);
> +
> + while (start < end) {
> + int ret = rmi_gpt_l1_create(start);
> +
> + /*
> + * Make sure the L1 GPT tables are created for the region.
> + * RMI_ERROR_GPT indicates the L1 table already exists.
> + */
> + if (ret && ret != RMI_ERROR_GPT) {
> + /*
> + * FIXME: Handle SRO so that memory can be donated for
> + * the tables.
> + */
> + pr_err("GPT Level1 table missing for %llx\n", start);
> + return -ENOMEM;
> + }
> + start += l0gpt_sz;
> + }
> +
> + return 0;
> +}
> +
> +static int rmi_init_metadata(void)
> +{
> + phys_addr_t start, end;
> + const struct memblock_region *r;
> +
> + for_each_mem_region(r) {
> + int ret;
> +
> + start = memblock_region_memory_base_pfn(r) << PAGE_SHIFT;
> + end = memblock_region_memory_end_pfn(r) << PAGE_SHIFT;
> + ret = rmi_verify_memory_tracking(start, end);
> + if (ret)
> + return ret;
> + ret = rmi_create_gpts(start, end);
> + if (ret)
> + return ret;
> + }
> +
> + return 0;
> +}
> +
> +bool rmi_is_available(void)
> +{
> + return arm64_rmi_is_available;
> +}
> +
> static int __init arm64_init_rmi(void)
> {
> /* Continue without realm support if we can't agree on a version */
> @@ -101,6 +199,11 @@ static int __init arm64_init_rmi(void)
>
> if (rmi_configure())
> return 0;
> + if (rmi_init_metadata())
> + return 0;
> +
> + arm64_rmi_is_available = true;
> + pr_info("RMI configured");
>
> return 0;
> }
Thanks,
Gavin
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