[PATCH v2 1/4] KVM: arm64: Narrow PMU sysreg reset values to architectural requirements

Alexandru Elisei alexandru.elisei at arm.com
Mon Jul 19 08:55:06 PDT 2021


Hi Marc,

On 7/19/21 1:38 PM, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> A number of the PMU sysregs expose reset values that are not
> compliant with the architecture (set bits in the RES0 ranges,
> for example).
>
> This in turn has the effect that we need to pointlessly mask
> some register fields when using them.
>
> Let's start by making sure we don't have illegal values in the
> shadow registers at reset time. This affects all the registers
> that dedicate one bit per counter, the counters themselves,
> PMEVTYPERn_EL0 and PMSELR_EL0.
>
> Reported-by: Alexandre Chartre <alexandre.chartre at oracle.com>
> Reviewed-by: Alexandre Chartre <alexandre.chartre at oracle.com>
> Acked-by: Russell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel at armlinux.org.uk>
> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz at kernel.org>
> ---
>  arch/arm64/kvm/sys_regs.c | 43 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
>  1 file changed, 40 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/sys_regs.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/sys_regs.c
> index f6f126eb6ac1..96bdfa0e68b2 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kvm/sys_regs.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/sys_regs.c
> @@ -603,6 +603,41 @@ static unsigned int pmu_visibility(const struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
>  	return REG_HIDDEN;
>  }
>  
> +static void reset_pmu_reg(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, const struct sys_reg_desc *r)
> +{
> +	u64 n, mask = BIT(ARMV8_PMU_CYCLE_IDX);
> +
> +	/* No PMU available, any PMU reg may UNDEF... */
> +	if (!kvm_arm_support_pmu_v3())
> +		return;
> +
> +	n = read_sysreg(pmcr_el0) >> ARMV8_PMU_PMCR_N_SHIFT;
> +	n &= ARMV8_PMU_PMCR_N_MASK;
> +	if (n)
> +		mask |= GENMASK(n - 1, 0);

Hm... seems to be missing the cycle counter.

Thanks,

Alex

> +
> +	reset_unknown(vcpu, r);
> +	__vcpu_sys_reg(vcpu, r->reg) &= mask;
> +}
> +
> +static void reset_pmevcntr(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, const struct sys_reg_desc *r)
> +{
> +	reset_unknown(vcpu, r);
> +	__vcpu_sys_reg(vcpu, r->reg) &= GENMASK(31, 0);
> +}
> +
> +static void reset_pmevtyper(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, const struct sys_reg_desc *r)
> +{
> +	reset_unknown(vcpu, r);
> +	__vcpu_sys_reg(vcpu, r->reg) &= ARMV8_PMU_EVTYPE_MASK;
> +}
> +
> +static void reset_pmselr(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, const struct sys_reg_desc *r)
> +{
> +	reset_unknown(vcpu, r);
> +	__vcpu_sys_reg(vcpu, r->reg) &= ARMV8_PMU_COUNTER_MASK;
> +}
> +
>  static void reset_pmcr(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, const struct sys_reg_desc *r)
>  {
>  	u64 pmcr, val;
> @@ -944,16 +979,18 @@ static bool access_pmuserenr(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct sys_reg_params *p,
>  	  trap_wcr, reset_wcr, 0, 0,  get_wcr, set_wcr }
>  
>  #define PMU_SYS_REG(r)						\
> -	SYS_DESC(r), .reset = reset_unknown, .visibility = pmu_visibility
> +	SYS_DESC(r), .reset = reset_pmu_reg, .visibility = pmu_visibility
>  
>  /* Macro to expand the PMEVCNTRn_EL0 register */
>  #define PMU_PMEVCNTR_EL0(n)						\
>  	{ PMU_SYS_REG(SYS_PMEVCNTRn_EL0(n)),				\
> +	  .reset = reset_pmevcntr,					\
>  	  .access = access_pmu_evcntr, .reg = (PMEVCNTR0_EL0 + n), }
>  
>  /* Macro to expand the PMEVTYPERn_EL0 register */
>  #define PMU_PMEVTYPER_EL0(n)						\
>  	{ PMU_SYS_REG(SYS_PMEVTYPERn_EL0(n)),				\
> +	  .reset = reset_pmevtyper,					\
>  	  .access = access_pmu_evtyper, .reg = (PMEVTYPER0_EL0 + n), }
>  
>  static bool undef_access(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct sys_reg_params *p,
> @@ -1595,13 +1632,13 @@ static const struct sys_reg_desc sys_reg_descs[] = {
>  	{ PMU_SYS_REG(SYS_PMSWINC_EL0),
>  	  .access = access_pmswinc, .reg = PMSWINC_EL0 },
>  	{ PMU_SYS_REG(SYS_PMSELR_EL0),
> -	  .access = access_pmselr, .reg = PMSELR_EL0 },
> +	  .access = access_pmselr, .reset = reset_pmselr, .reg = PMSELR_EL0 },
>  	{ PMU_SYS_REG(SYS_PMCEID0_EL0),
>  	  .access = access_pmceid, .reset = NULL },
>  	{ PMU_SYS_REG(SYS_PMCEID1_EL0),
>  	  .access = access_pmceid, .reset = NULL },
>  	{ PMU_SYS_REG(SYS_PMCCNTR_EL0),
> -	  .access = access_pmu_evcntr, .reg = PMCCNTR_EL0 },
> +	  .access = access_pmu_evcntr, .reset = reset_unknown, .reg = PMCCNTR_EL0 },
>  	{ PMU_SYS_REG(SYS_PMXEVTYPER_EL0),
>  	  .access = access_pmu_evtyper, .reset = NULL },
>  	{ PMU_SYS_REG(SYS_PMXEVCNTR_EL0),



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