.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 ============== KVM MMIO guard ============== KVM implements device emulation by handling translation faults to any IPA range that is not contained in a memory slot. Such a translation fault is in most cases passed on to userspace (or in rare cases to the host kernel) with the address, size and possibly data of the access for emulation. Should the guest exit with an address that is not one that corresponds to an emulatable device, userspace may take measures that are not the most graceful as far as the guest is concerned (such as terminating it or delivering a fatal exception). There is also an element of trust: by forwarding the request to userspace, the kernel assumes that the guest trusts userspace to do the right thing. The KVM MMIO guard offers a way to mitigate this last point: a guest can request that only certain regions of the IPA space are valid as MMIO. Only these regions will be handled as an MMIO, and any other will result in an exception being delivered to the guest. This relies on a set of hypercalls defined in the KVM-specific range, using the HVC64 calling convention. When operating on a range of contiguous IPA space, it is recommended to use ARM_SMCCC_KVM_FUNC_MMIO_RGUARD_MAP. This HVC takes a number of granules as an argument. See ``KVM_FUNC_HAS_RANGE`` in hypercalls.rst for a complete description. Both ARM_SMCCC_KVM_FUNC_MMIO_GUARD_UNMAP and ARM_SMCCC_KVM_FUNC_MMIO_RGUARD_UNMAP are only declared for legacy guests, that is, older than 6.12. * ARM_SMCCC_KVM_FUNC_MMIO_GUARD_INFO ============== ======== ================================ Function ID: (uint32) 0xC6000005 Arguments: r1-r3 Reserved / Must be zero Return Values: (int64) NOT_SUPPORTED(-1) on error, or (uint64) Protection Granule (PG) size in bytes (r0). KVM_FUNC_HAS_RANGE(1) is set (r1) if RGUARD_MAP and RGUARD_UNMAP HVCs are available. ============== ======== ================================ * ARM_SMCCC_KVM_FUNC_MMIO_GUARD_ENROLL ============== ======== ============================== Function ID: (uint32) 0xC6000006 Arguments: none Return Values: (int64) NOT_SUPPORTED(-1) on error, or RET_SUCCESS(0) (r0) ============== ======== ============================== * ARM_SMCCC_KVM_FUNC_MMIO_GUARD_MAP ============== ======== ==================================== Function ID: (uint32) 0xC6000007 Arguments: (uint64) The base of the PG-sized IPA range that is allowed to be accessed as MMIO. Must be aligned to the PG size (r1) (uint64) Index in the MAIR_EL1 register providing the memory attribute that is used by the guest (r2) Return Values: (int64) NOT_SUPPORTED(-1) on error, or RET_SUCCESS(0) (r0) ============== ======== ==================================== * ARM_SMCCC_KVM_FUNC_MMIO_GUARD_UNMAP ============== ======== ====================================== Function ID: (uint32) 0xC6000008 ============== ======== ====================================== * ARM_SMCCC_KVM_FUNC_MMIO_RGUARD_MAP ============== ======== ==================================== Function ID: (uint32) 0xC600000A Arguments: (uint64) The base of the PG-sized IPA range that is allowed to be accessed as MMIO. Must be aligned to the PG size (r1) (uint64) Number of granules to guard (r2). See ``KVM_FUNC_HAS_RANGE`` in hypercalls.rst for more details Return Values: (int64) NOT_SUPPORTED(-1) on error, or RET_SUCCESS(0) (r0) (uint64) Number of shared granules (r1) ============== ======== ==================================== * ARM_SMCCC_KVM_FUNC_MMIO_RGUARD_UNMAP ============== ======== ====================================== Function ID: (uint32) 0xC600000B ============== ======== ======================================