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@@ -446,6 +446,9 @@
 	arm64.nobti	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Branch Target
 			Identification support
 
+	arm64.nogcs	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Guarded Control Stack
+			support
+
 	arm64.nomops	[ARM64] Unconditionally disable Memory Copy and Memory
 			Set instructions support
 
 
@@ -0,0 +1,69 @@
+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+
+=====================================
+Arm Confidential Compute Architecture
+=====================================
+
+Arm systems that support the Realm Management Extension (RME) contain
+hardware to allow a VM guest to be run in a way which protects the code
+and data of the guest from the hypervisor. It extends the older "two
+world" model (Normal and Secure World) into four worlds: Normal, Secure,
+Root and Realm. Linux can then also be run as a guest to a monitor
+running in the Realm world.
+
+The monitor running in the Realm world is known as the Realm Management
+Monitor (RMM) and implements the Realm Management Monitor
+specification[1]. The monitor acts a bit like a hypervisor (e.g. it runs
+in EL2 and manages the stage 2 page tables etc of the guests running in
+Realm world), however much of the control is handled by a hypervisor
+running in the Normal World. The Normal World hypervisor uses the Realm
+Management Interface (RMI) defined by the RMM specification to request
+the RMM to perform operations (e.g. mapping memory or executing a vCPU).
+
+The RMM defines an environment for guests where the address space (IPA)
+is split into two. The lower half is protected - any memory that is
+mapped in this half cannot be seen by the Normal World and the RMM
+restricts what operations the Normal World can perform on this memory
+(e.g. the Normal World cannot replace pages in this region without the
+guest's cooperation). The upper half is shared, the Normal World is free
+to make changes to the pages in this region, and is able to emulate MMIO
+devices in this region too.
+
+A guest running in a Realm may also communicate with the RMM using the
+Realm Services Interface (RSI) to request changes in its environment or
+to perform attestation about its environment. In particular it may
+request that areas of the protected address space are transitioned
+between 'RAM' and 'EMPTY' (in either direction). This allows a Realm
+guest to give up memory to be returned to the Normal World, or to
+request new memory from the Normal World.  Without an explicit request
+from the Realm guest the RMM will otherwise prevent the Normal World
+from making these changes.
+
+Linux as a Realm Guest
+----------------------
+
+To run Linux as a guest within a Realm, the following must be provided
+either by the VMM or by a `boot loader` run in the Realm before Linux:
+
+ * All protected RAM described to Linux (by DT or ACPI) must be marked
+   RIPAS RAM before handing control over to Linux.
+
+ * MMIO devices must be either unprotected (e.g. emulated by the Normal
+   World) or marked RIPAS DEV.
+
+ * MMIO devices emulated by the Normal World and used very early in boot
+   (specifically earlycon) must be specified in the upper half of IPA.
+   For earlycon this can be done by specifying the address on the
+   command line, e.g. with an IPA size of 33 bits and the base address
+   of the emulated UART at 0x1000000: ``earlycon=uart,mmio,0x101000000``
+
+ * Linux will use bounce buffers for communicating with unprotected
+   devices. It will transition some protected memory to RIPAS EMPTY and
+   expect to be able to access unprotected pages at the same IPA address
+   but with the highest valid IPA bit set. The expectation is that the
+   VMM will remove the physical pages from the protected mapping and
+   provide those pages as unprotected pages.
+
+References
+----------
+[1] https://developer.arm.com/documentation/den0137/
@@ -41,6 +41,9 @@ to automatically locate and size all RAM, or it may use knowledge of
 the RAM in the machine, or any other method the boot loader designer
 sees fit.)
 
+For Arm Confidential Compute Realms this includes ensuring that all
+protected RAM has a Realm IPA state (RIPAS) of "RAM".
+
 
 2. Setup the device tree
 -------------------------
@@ -411,6 +414,38 @@ Before jumping into the kernel, the following conditions must be met:
 
     - HFGRWR_EL2.nPIRE0_EL1 (bit 57) must be initialised to 0b1.
 
+ - For CPUs with Guarded Control Stacks (FEAT_GCS):
+
+  - GCSCR_EL1 must be initialised to 0.
+
+  - GCSCRE0_EL1 must be initialised to 0.
+
+  - If EL3 is present:
+
+    - SCR_EL3.GCSEn (bit 39) must be initialised to 0b1.
+
+  - If EL2 is present:
+
+    - GCSCR_EL2 must be initialised to 0.
+
+ - If the kernel is entered at EL1 and EL2 is present:
+
+    - HCRX_EL2.GCSEn must be initialised to 0b1.
+
+    - HFGITR_EL2.nGCSEPP (bit 59) must be initialised to 0b1.
+
+    - HFGITR_EL2.nGCSSTR_EL1 (bit 58) must be initialised to 0b1.
+
+    - HFGITR_EL2.nGCSPUSHM_EL1 (bit 57) must be initialised to 0b1.
+
+    - HFGRTR_EL2.nGCS_EL1 (bit 53) must be initialised to 0b1.
+
+    - HFGRTR_EL2.nGCS_EL0 (bit 52) must be initialised to 0b1.
+
+    - HFGWTR_EL2.nGCS_EL1 (bit 53) must be initialised to 0b1.
+
+    - HFGWTR_EL2.nGCS_EL0 (bit 52) must be initialised to 0b1.
+
 The requirements described above for CPU mode, caches, MMUs, architected
 timers, coherency and system registers apply to all CPUs.  All CPUs must
 enter the kernel in the same exception level.  Where the values documented
 
@@ -16,9 +16,9 @@ architected discovery mechanism available to userspace code at EL0. The
 kernel exposes the presence of these features to userspace through a set
 of flags called hwcaps, exposed in the auxiliary vector.
 
-Userspace software can test for features by acquiring the AT_HWCAP or
-AT_HWCAP2 entry of the auxiliary vector, and testing whether the relevant
-flags are set, e.g.::
+Userspace software can test for features by acquiring the AT_HWCAP,
+AT_HWCAP2 or AT_HWCAP3 entry of the auxiliary vector, and testing
+whether the relevant flags are set, e.g.::
 
 	bool floating_point_is_present(void)
 	{
@@ -170,6 +170,10 @@ HWCAP_PACG
     ID_AA64ISAR1_EL1.GPI == 0b0001, as described by
     Documentation/arch/arm64/pointer-authentication.rst.
 
+HWCAP_GCS
+    Functionality implied by ID_AA64PFR1_EL1.GCS == 0b1, as
+    described by Documentation/arch/arm64/gcs.rst.
+
 HWCAP2_DCPODP
     Functionality implied by ID_AA64ISAR1_EL1.DPB == 0b0010.
 
 
@@ -0,0 +1,227 @@
+===============================================
+Guarded Control Stack support for AArch64 Linux
+===============================================
+
+This document outlines briefly the interface provided to userspace by Linux in
+order to support use of the ARM Guarded Control Stack (GCS) feature.
+
+This is an outline of the most important features and issues only and not
+intended to be exhaustive.
+
+
+
+1.  General
+-----------
+
+* GCS is an architecture feature intended to provide greater protection
+  against return oriented programming (ROP) attacks and to simplify the
+  implementation of features that need to collect stack traces such as
+  profiling.
+
+* When GCS is enabled a separate guarded control stack is maintained by the
+  PE which is writeable only through specific GCS operations.  This
+  stores the call stack only, when a procedure call instruction is
+  performed the current PC is pushed onto the GCS and on RET the
+  address in the LR is verified against that on the top of the GCS.
+
+* When active the current GCS pointer is stored in the system register
+  GCSPR_EL0.  This is readable by userspace but can only be updated
+  via specific GCS instructions.
+
+* The architecture provides instructions for switching between guarded
+  control stacks with checks to ensure that the new stack is a valid
+  target for switching.
+
+* The functionality of GCS is similar to that provided by the x86 Shadow
+  Stack feature, due to sharing of userspace interfaces the ABI refers to
+  shadow stacks rather than GCS.
+
+* Support for GCS is reported to userspace via HWCAP_GCS in the aux vector
+  AT_HWCAP2 entry.
+
+* GCS is enabled per thread.  While there is support for disabling GCS
+  at runtime this should be done with great care.
+
+* GCS memory access faults are reported as normal memory access faults.
+
+* GCS specific errors (those reported with EC 0x2d) will be reported as
+  SIGSEGV with a si_code of SEGV_CPERR (control protection error).
+
+* GCS is supported only for AArch64.
+
+* On systems where GCS is supported GCSPR_EL0 is always readable by EL0
+  regardless of the GCS configuration for the thread.
+
+* The architecture supports enabling GCS without verifying that return values
+  in LR match those in the GCS, the LR will be ignored.  This is not supported
+  by Linux.
+
+
+
+2.  Enabling and disabling Guarded Control Stacks
+-------------------------------------------------
+
+* GCS is enabled and disabled for a thread via the PR_SET_SHADOW_STACK_STATUS
+  prctl(), this takes a single flags argument specifying which GCS features
+  should be used.
+
+* When set PR_SHADOW_STACK_ENABLE flag allocates a Guarded Control Stack
+  and enables GCS for the thread, enabling the functionality controlled by
+  GCSCRE0_EL1.{nTR, RVCHKEN, PCRSEL}.
+
+* When set the PR_SHADOW_STACK_PUSH flag enables the functionality controlled
+  by GCSCRE0_EL1.PUSHMEn, allowing explicit GCS pushes.
+
+* When set the PR_SHADOW_STACK_WRITE flag enables the functionality controlled
+  by GCSCRE0_EL1.STREn, allowing explicit stores to the Guarded Control Stack.
+
+* Any unknown flags will cause PR_SET_SHADOW_STACK_STATUS to return -EINVAL.
+
+* PR_LOCK_SHADOW_STACK_STATUS is passed a bitmask of features with the same
+  values as used for PR_SET_SHADOW_STACK_STATUS.  Any future changes to the
+  status of the specified GCS mode bits will be rejected.
+
+* PR_LOCK_SHADOW_STACK_STATUS allows any bit to be locked, this allows
+  userspace to prevent changes to any future features.
+
+* There is no support for a process to remove a lock that has been set for
+  it.
+
+* PR_SET_SHADOW_STACK_STATUS and PR_LOCK_SHADOW_STACK_STATUS affect only the
+  thread that called them, any other running threads will be unaffected.
+
+* New threads inherit the GCS configuration of the thread that created them.
+
+* GCS is disabled on exec().
+
+* The current GCS configuration for a thread may be read with the
+  PR_GET_SHADOW_STACK_STATUS prctl(), this returns the same flags that
+  are passed to PR_SET_SHADOW_STACK_STATUS.
+
+* If GCS is disabled for a thread after having previously been enabled then
+  the stack will remain allocated for the lifetime of the thread.  At present
+  any attempt to reenable GCS for the thread will be rejected, this may be
+  revisited in future.
+
+* It should be noted that since enabling GCS will result in GCS becoming
+  active immediately it is not normally possible to return from the function
+  that invoked the prctl() that enabled GCS.  It is expected that the normal
+  usage will be that GCS is enabled very early in execution of a program.
+
+
+
+3.  Allocation of Guarded Control Stacks
+----------------------------------------
+
+* When GCS is enabled for a thread a new Guarded Control Stack will be
+  allocated for it of half the standard stack size or 2 gigabytes,
+  whichever is smaller.
+
+* When a new thread is created by a thread which has GCS enabled then a
+  new Guarded Control Stack will be allocated for the new thread with
+  half the size of the standard stack.
+
+* When a stack is allocated by enabling GCS or during thread creation then
+  the top 8 bytes of the stack will be initialised to 0 and GCSPR_EL0 will
+  be set to point to the address of this 0 value, this can be used to
+  detect the top of the stack.
+
+* Additional Guarded Control Stacks can be allocated using the
+  map_shadow_stack() system call.
+
+* Stacks allocated using map_shadow_stack() can optionally have an end of
+  stack marker and cap placed at the top of the stack.  If the flag
+  SHADOW_STACK_SET_TOKEN is specified a cap will be placed on the stack,
+  if SHADOW_STACK_SET_MARKER is not specified the cap will be the top 8
+  bytes of the stack and if it is specified then the cap will be the next
+  8 bytes.  While specifying just SHADOW_STACK_SET_MARKER by itself is
+  valid since the marker is all bits 0 it has no observable effect.
+
+* Stacks allocated using map_shadow_stack() must have a size which is a
+  multiple of 8 bytes larger than 8 bytes and must be 8 bytes aligned.
+
+* An address can be specified to map_shadow_stack(), if one is provided then
+  it must be aligned to a page boundary.
+
+* When a thread is freed the Guarded Control Stack initially allocated for
+  that thread will be freed.  Note carefully that if the stack has been
+  switched this may not be the stack currently in use by the thread.
+
+
+4.  Signal handling
+--------------------
+
+* A new signal frame record gcs_context encodes the current GCS mode and
+  pointer for the interrupted context on signal delivery.  This will always
+  be present on systems that support GCS.
+
+* The record contains a flag field which reports the current GCS configuration
+  for the interrupted context as PR_GET_SHADOW_STACK_STATUS would.
+
+* The signal handler is run with the same GCS configuration as the interrupted
+  context.
+
+* When GCS is enabled for the interrupted thread a signal handling specific
+  GCS cap token will be written to the GCS, this is an architectural GCS cap
+  with the token type (bits 0..11) all clear.  The GCSPR_EL0 reported in the
+  signal frame will point to this cap token.
+
+* The signal handler will use the same GCS as the interrupted context.
+
+* When GCS is enabled on signal entry a frame with the address of the signal
+  return handler will be pushed onto the GCS, allowing return from the signal
+  handler via RET as normal.  This will not be reported in the gcs_context in
+  the signal frame.
+
+
+5.  Signal return
+-----------------
+
+When returning from a signal handler:
+
+* If there is a gcs_context record in the signal frame then the GCS flags
+  and GCSPR_EL0 will be restored from that context prior to further
+  validation.
+
+* If there is no gcs_context record in the signal frame then the GCS
+  configuration will be unchanged.
+
+* If GCS is enabled on return from a signal handler then GCSPR_EL0 must
+  point to a valid GCS signal cap record, this will be popped from the
+  GCS prior to signal return.
+
+* If the GCS configuration is locked when returning from a signal then any
+  attempt to change the GCS configuration will be treated as an error.  This
+  is true even if GCS was not enabled prior to signal entry.
+
+* GCS may be disabled via signal return but any attempt to enable GCS via
+  signal return will be rejected.
+
+
+6.  ptrace extensions
+---------------------
+
+* A new regset NT_ARM_GCS is defined for use with PTRACE_GETREGSET and
+  PTRACE_SETREGSET.
+
+* The GCS mode, including enable and disable, may be configured via ptrace.
+  If GCS is enabled via ptrace no new GCS will be allocated for the thread.
+
+* Configuration via ptrace ignores locking of GCS mode bits.
+
+
+7.  ELF coredump extensions
+---------------------------
+
+* NT_ARM_GCS notes will be added to each coredump for each thread of the
+  dumped process.  The contents will be equivalent to the data that would
+  have been read if a PTRACE_GETREGSET of the corresponding type were
+  executed for each thread when the coredump was generated.
+
+
+
+8.  /proc extensions
+--------------------
+
+* Guarded Control Stack pages will include "ss" in their VmFlags in
+  /proc/<pid>/smaps.
@@ -10,11 +10,13 @@ ARM64 Architecture
     acpi_object_usage
     amu
     arm-acpi
+    arm-cca
     asymmetric-32bit
     booting
     cpu-feature-registers
     cpu-hotplug
     elf_hwcaps
+    gcs
     hugetlbpage
     kdump
     legacy_instructions