On 3/25/2026 12:56 AM, Tianyu Lan wrote:
> Hyper-V provides Confidential VMBus to communicate between
> device model and device guest driver via encrypted/private
> memory in Confidential VM. The device model is in OpenHCL
> (https://openvmm.dev/guide/user_guide/openhcl.html) that
> plays the paravisor role.
> 
> For a VMBus device, there are two communication methods to
> talk with Host/Hypervisor. 1) VMBUS Ring buffer 2) Dynamic
> DMA transfer.
> 
> The Confidential VMBus Ring buffer has been upstreamed by
> Roman Kisel(commit 6802d8af47d1).
> 
> The dynamic DMA transition of VMBus device normally goes
> through DMA core and it uses SWIOTLB as bounce buffer in
> a CoCo VM.
> 
> The Confidential VMBus device can do DMA directly to
> private/encrypted memory. Because the swiotlb is decrypted
> memory, the DMA transfer must not be bounced through the
> swiotlb, so as to preserve confidentiality. This is different
> from the default for Linux CoCo VMs, so disable the VMBus
> device's use of swiotlb.
> 
> Expose swiotlb_dev_disable() from DMA Core to disable
> bounce buffer for device.
> 
> Suggested-by: Michael Kelley <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Tianyu Lan <[email protected]>
> ---
>  drivers/hv/vmbus_drv.c  | 6 +++++-
>  include/linux/swiotlb.h | 5 +++++
>  2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/hv/vmbus_drv.c b/drivers/hv/vmbus_drv.c
> index 3d1a58b667db..84e6971fc90f 100644
> --- a/drivers/hv/vmbus_drv.c
> +++ b/drivers/hv/vmbus_drv.c
> @@ -2184,11 +2184,15 @@ int vmbus_device_register(struct hv_device 
> *child_device_obj)
>       child_device_obj->device.dma_mask = &child_device_obj->dma_mask;
>       dma_set_mask(&child_device_obj->device, DMA_BIT_MASK(64));
>  
> +     device_initialize(&child_device_obj->device);
> +     if (child_device_obj->channel->co_external_memory)
> +             swiotlb_dev_disable(&child_device_obj->device);
> +
>       /*
>        * Register with the LDM. This will kick off the driver/device
>        * binding...which will eventually call vmbus_match() and vmbus_probe()
>        */
> -     ret = device_register(&child_device_obj->device);
> +     ret = device_add(&child_device_obj->device);
>       if (ret) {
>               pr_err("Unable to register child device\n");
>               put_device(&child_device_obj->device);
> diff --git a/include/linux/swiotlb.h b/include/linux/swiotlb.h
> index 3dae0f592063..7c572570d5d9 100644
> --- a/include/linux/swiotlb.h
> +++ b/include/linux/swiotlb.h
> @@ -169,6 +169,11 @@ static inline struct io_tlb_pool 
> *swiotlb_find_pool(struct device *dev,
>       return NULL;
>  }
>  
> +static inline bool swiotlb_dev_disable(struct device *dev)
> +{
> +     return dev->dma_io_tlb_mem == NULL;

Is there an extra = here?

- Easwar (he/him)

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