[PATCH 2/2] KVM: arm64: Don't advertise FEAT_SPE to guests

Alexandru Elisei alexandru.elisei at arm.com
Fri Apr 9 16:21:54 BST 2021


Even though KVM sets up MDCR_EL2 to trap accesses to the SPE buffer and
sampling control registers and to inject an undefined exception, the
presence of FEAT_SPE is still advertised in the ID_AA64DFR0_EL1 register,
if the hardware supports it. Getting an undefined exception when accessing
a register usually happens for a hardware feature which is not implemented,
and indeed this is how PMU emulation is handled when the virtual machine
has been created without the KVM_ARM_VCPU_PMU_V3 feature. Let's be
consistent and never advertise FEAT_SPE, because KVM doesn't have support
for emulating it yet.

Signed-off-by: Alexandru Elisei <alexandru.elisei at arm.com>
---
 arch/arm64/kvm/sys_regs.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/sys_regs.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/sys_regs.c
index 402cd11aa4fc..61ee9bfb8826 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/sys_regs.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/sys_regs.c
@@ -1063,6 +1063,8 @@ static u64 read_id_reg(const struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
 		val = cpuid_feature_cap_perfmon_field(val,
 						      ID_AA64DFR0_PMUVER_SHIFT,
 						      kvm_vcpu_has_pmu(vcpu) ? ID_AA64DFR0_PMUVER_8_4 : 0);
+		/* Hide SPE from guests */
+		val &= ~FEATURE(ID_AA64DFR0_PMSVER);
 		break;
 	case SYS_ID_DFR0_EL1:
 		/* Limit guests to PMUv3 for ARMv8.4 */
-- 
2.31.1




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