[PATCH 0/2] RISC-V: KVM: Add PMU event filter support
Yuhang.chen
yhchen312 at gmail.com
Thu Aug 6 20:50:37 PDT 2026
This series adds PMU event filter support to RISC-V KVM, allowing a
userspace VMM to restrict which SBI PMU events a guest is permitted to
program.
The KVM_SET_PMU_EVENT_FILTER ioctl and KVM_CAP_PMU_EVENT_FILTER already
exist as generic KVM uAPI (include/uapi/linux/kvm.h); RISC-V KVM does
not yet implement them. Wiring them up lets a VMM limit a guest's PMU
event access, which is useful for sandboxing and for withholding host
PMU events the host does not intend to expose.
Patch 1 implements the kernel side: the uapi struct, the ioctl handler
with an SRCU-protected filter, enforcement in
kvm_riscv_vcpu_pmu_ctr_cfg_match() (a disallowed event fails with
SBI_ERR_NOT_SUPPORTED), and advertisement of KVM_CAP_PMU_EVENT_FILTER.
Patch 2 adds a selftest that covers the ALLOW/DENY semantics with the
event in and out of the list, filter clearing, and ioctl argument
rejection (EINVAL/E2BIG).
Testing: built and run under QEMU TCG with nested KVM (an L1 KVM host
running an L2 guest). The selftest (patch 2) passes - all ALLOW/DENY
and argument-validation cases behave as expected - and dmesg stays
clean throughout the run.
Based on v7.2-rc2 (a635d6748234).
Assisted-by: YuanSheng:deepseek-v4-pro
Co-developed-by: Quan Zhou <zhouquan at iscas.ac.cn>
Signed-off-by: Quan Zhou <zhouquan at iscas.ac.cn>
Signed-off-by: Yuhang.chen <yhchen312 at gmail.com>
Yuhang.chen (2):
RISC-V: KVM: Add PMU event filter support
RISC-V: KVM: selftests: Add PMU event filter test
arch/riscv/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 3 +
arch/riscv/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h | 20 ++
arch/riscv/kvm/vcpu_pmu.c | 28 +++
arch/riscv/kvm/vm.c | 66 +++++-
tools/testing/selftests/kvm/Makefile.kvm | 1 +
.../kvm/riscv/pmu_event_filter_test.c | 199 ++++++++++++++++++
6 files changed, 316 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/kvm/riscv/pmu_event_filter_test.c
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