[PATCH] arm64: head.S: initialise mdcr_el2 in el2_setup

Will Deacon will.deacon at arm.com
Mon Sep 14 09:58:55 PDT 2015


When entering the kernel at EL2, we fail to initialise the MDCR_EL2
register which controls debug access and PMU capabilities at EL1.

This patch ensures that the register is initialised so that all traps
are disabled and all the PMU counters are available to the host. When a
guest is scheduled, KVM takes care to configure trapping appropriately.

Cc: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier at arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com>
---
 arch/arm64/kernel/head.S | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S b/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S
index a055be6125cf..90d09eddd5b2 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S
@@ -523,6 +523,11 @@ CPU_LE(	movk	x0, #0x30d0, lsl #16	)	// Clear EE and E0E on LE systems
 	msr	hstr_el2, xzr			// Disable CP15 traps to EL2
 #endif
 
+	/* EL2 debug */
+	mrs	x0, pmcr_el0			// Disable debug access traps
+	ubfx	x0, x0, #11, #5			// to EL2 and allow access to
+	msr	mdcr_el2, x0			// all PMU counters from EL1
+
 	/* Stage-2 translation */
 	msr	vttbr_el2, xzr
 
-- 
2.1.4




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