[RFC PATCH v2 00/10] iommu/riscv: Add hardware dirty tracking for second-stage domains
fangyu.yu at linux.alibaba.com
fangyu.yu at linux.alibaba.com
Thu May 7 04:36:56 PDT 2026
From: Fangyu Yu <fangyu.yu at linux.alibaba.com>
The RISC-V IOMMU architecture defines an AMO_HWAD capability (Hardware
Access/Dirty update) that allows the IOMMU to atomically set the A/D bits
in second-stage PTEs on DMA access. When DC.tc.GADE is asserted, the IOMMU
autonomously sets D on the first write to a page mapped by an iohgatp
domain. This series wires that capability up to the iommufd dirty-tracking
interface (IOMMU_HWPT_SET_DIRTY_TRACKING / IOMMU_HWPT_GET_DIRTY_BITMAP) and
reports IOMMU_CAP_DIRTY_TRACKING.
Design notes
------------
* The feature is scoped to second-stage (iohgatp) domains only; these are
the domains created for KVM / VFIO device pass-through when userspace
allocates an HWPT with IOMMU_HWPT_ALLOC_NEST_PARENT or
IOMMU_HWPT_ALLOC_DIRTY_TRACKING. First-stage (iosatp) domains are not
touched by this series.
* The page-table side plugs into the existing generic_pt dirty hook
framework (amdv1 / vtdss style). RISC-V adds the three required PTE
ops – is_write_dirty / make_write_clean / make_write_dirty.
Testing
-------
* Test on QEMU RISC-V, a virtio-net and an e1000e device was passed through
to an L2 guest via vfio-pci + iommufd.
* generic_pt KUnit: the existing test_dirty case now runs and passes for
the RISC-V 64-bit format.
Follow-up work
--------------
* Build a dedicated end-to-end test case that drives the full flow
(HWPT_ALLOC with DIRTY_TRACKING -> attach -> IOAS_MAP -> generate real
DMA -> SET_DIRTY_TRACKING -> GET_DIRTY_BITMAP -> verify bitmap against
expected IOVA footprint) so that the behaviour can be regression-tested
beyond the KUnit PTE-level coverage.
* If possible, rebase and retest on top of the updated "iommu irqbypass"
patchset.
---
Changes in v2 (Jason's suggestions):
- Introduced a single PT_FEAT_RISCV_S2: second-stage selection is driven
purely by this feature bit.
- Switched from dynamic DC.tc.GADE toggling to static pre-enable.
- domain_alloc_paging_flags: follow the switch/case design from other
drivers.
- Drop IOMMU_CAP_DEFERRED_FLUSH in riscv_iommu_capable.
- Remove the .hw_info-related patch.
- Link to v1:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-riscv/20260428131359.34872-1-fangyu.yu@linux.alibaba.com/
Fangyu Yu (6):
iommupt: Add RISC-V Second-stage (iohgatp) page table support
iommupt: Add RISC-V dirty tracking PTE ops
iommu/riscv: Add domain_alloc_paging_flags for second-stage domain
iommu/riscv: Pre-enable GADE for second-stage domains
iommu/riscv: Add dirty tracking support for second-stage domains
iommu/riscv: Add IOTINVAL.GVMA after updating DDT/PDT entries
Tomasz Jeznach (2):
iommu/riscv: report iommu capabilities
RISC-V: KVM: Enable KVM_VFIO interfaces on RISC-V arch
Zong Li (2):
iommu/riscv: use data structure instead of individual values
iommu/riscv: support GSCID and GVMA invalidation command
arch/riscv/kvm/Kconfig | 2 +
drivers/iommu/generic_pt/fmt/riscv.h | 104 ++++++++++++++-
drivers/iommu/riscv/iommu-bits.h | 7 +
drivers/iommu/riscv/iommu.c | 190 +++++++++++++++++++++------
include/linux/generic_pt/common.h | 5 +-
include/linux/generic_pt/iommu.h | 17 ++-
6 files changed, 277 insertions(+), 48 deletions(-)
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