[PATCH v2 0/2] KVM: arm64: PMU: Preserve vPMC registers properly on migration
Reiji Watanabe
reijiw at google.com
Sun Mar 12 20:29:03 PDT 2023
The series fixes two problems in preserving vPMU counter (vPMC)
registers (PMCCNTR_EL0/PMEVCNTR<n>_EL0) during migration.
One of the problems is that KVM may not return the current values
of the vPMC registers for KVM_GET_ONE_REG.
The other one might cause KVM to reset the vPMC registers on the
first KVM_RUN on the destination. This is because userspace might
save PMCR_EL0 with PMCR_EL0.{C,P} bits set on the source, and
restore it on the destination.
See patch-1 and patch-2 for details on these issues respectively.
The series is based on v6.3-rc2.
v2:
- Collect Marc's r-b tags (Thank you!)
- Added "Fixes:" tags
- Added Cc: to stable
- Cosmetics change (remove one line break in kvm_pmu_handle_pmcr())
v1: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230302055033.3081456-1-reijiw@google.com/
Reiji Watanabe (2):
KVM: arm64: PMU: Fix GET_ONE_REG for vPMC regs to return the current
value
KVM: arm64: PMU: Don't save PMCR_EL0.{C,P} for the vCPU
arch/arm64/kvm/pmu-emul.c | 3 ++-
arch/arm64/kvm/sys_regs.c | 21 +++++++++++++++++++--
2 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
base-commit: eeac8ede17557680855031c6f305ece2378af326
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