[PATCH v4 05/19] kvm: arm64: Disable guest access to trace filter controls

Suzuki K Poulose suzuki.poulose at arm.com
Tue Mar 23 09:44:41 GMT 2021


On 23/03/2021 09:16, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> Hi Suzuki,
> 
> On 2021-03-22 22:24, Suzuki K Poulose wrote:
>> Hi Marc,
>>
>> On 25/02/2021 19:35, Suzuki K Poulose wrote:
>>> Disable guest access to the Trace Filter control registers.
>>> We do not advertise the Trace filter feature to the guest
>>> (ID_AA64DFR0_EL1: TRACE_FILT is cleared) already, but the guest
>>> can still access the TRFCR_EL1 unless we trap it.
>>>
>>> This will also make sure that the guest cannot fiddle with
>>> the filtering controls set by a nvhe host.
>>>
>>> Cc: Marc Zyngier <maz at kernel.org>
>>> Cc: Will Deacon <will at kernel.org>
>>> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland at arm.com>
>>> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
>>> Signed-off-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose at arm.com>
>>
>> We have already have the v8.4 self hosted tracing support in 5.12-rcX.
>> Do you think you can pick this up for this 5.12 ?
> 
> Sure, no problem. Shall I pick patch #3 at the same time?

Yes please.

Thanks !
Suzuki



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