[PATCH v2 4/6] arm64: KVM: Add interface to set guest value for TRFCR register

Suzuki K Poulose suzuki.poulose at arm.com
Thu Oct 5 09:58:53 PDT 2023


On 05/10/2023 13:57, James Clark wrote:
> Add an interface for the Coresight driver to use to set the value of the
> TRFCR register for the guest. This register controls the exclude



> settings for trace at different exception levels, and is used to
> honor the exclude_host and exclude_guest parameters from the Perf
> session. This will be used to later write TRFCR_EL1 on nVHE at guest
> switch. For VHE, TRFCR_EL1 is written immediately. Because guest writes

minor nit: May be it would be clearer to say:

For VHE, the host trace is controlled by TRFCR_EL2 and thus we can
write to the TRFCR_EL1 immediately. Because, ...

> to the register are trapped, the value will persist and can't be
> modified.
> 
> The settings must be copied to the vCPU before each run in the same
> way that PMU events are because the per-cpu struct isn't accessible in

super minor nit:

way that PMU events are, because ...

> protected mode.
> 
> Now that both guest and host values are saved, rename trfcr_el1 to
> host_trfcr_el1 to make it clear that's the value that should be restored

This seems obsolete ? I couldn't find any reference to host_trfcr_el1
anywhere ?

Otherwise looks good to me.

Suzuki


> on return to the host.
> 
> Signed-off-by: James Clark <james.clark at arm.com>
> ---
>   arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h |  3 +++
>   arch/arm64/kvm/arm.c              |  1 +
>   arch/arm64/kvm/debug.c            | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>   3 files changed, 30 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h
> index b5200f199692..8f2b4ec8ea61 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h
> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h
> @@ -1123,6 +1123,8 @@ void kvm_arch_vcpu_put_debug_state_flags(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu);
>   void kvm_set_pmu_events(u32 set, struct perf_event_attr *attr);
>   void kvm_clr_pmu_events(u32 clr);
>   bool kvm_set_pmuserenr(u64 val);
> +void kvm_etm_set_guest_trfcr(u64 trfcr_guest);
> +void kvm_etm_update_vcpu_events(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu);
>   #else
>   static inline void kvm_set_pmu_events(u32 set, struct perf_event_attr *attr) {}
>   static inline void kvm_clr_pmu_events(u32 clr) {}
> @@ -1130,6 +1132,7 @@ static inline bool kvm_set_pmuserenr(u64 val)
>   {
>   	return false;
>   }
> +static inline void kvm_etm_set_guest_trfcr(u64 trfcr_guest) {}
>   #endif
>   
>   void kvm_vcpu_load_sysregs_vhe(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu);
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/arm.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/arm.c
> index 78b0970eb8e6..22fab356b88f 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kvm/arm.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/arm.c
> @@ -1012,6 +1012,7 @@ int kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
>   		kvm_vgic_flush_hwstate(vcpu);
>   
>   		kvm_pmu_update_vcpu_events(vcpu);
> +		kvm_etm_update_vcpu_events(vcpu);
>   
>   		/*
>   		 * Ensure we set mode to IN_GUEST_MODE after we disable
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/debug.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/debug.c
> index 6a1bad1a921b..19e722359154 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kvm/debug.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/debug.c
> @@ -23,6 +23,12 @@
>   
>   static DEFINE_PER_CPU(u64, mdcr_el2);
>   
> +/*
> + * Per CPU value for TRFCR that should be applied to any guest vcpu that may
> + * run on that core in the future.
> + */
> +static DEFINE_PER_CPU(u64, guest_trfcr);
> +
>   /**
>    * save/restore_guest_debug_regs
>    *
> @@ -342,3 +348,23 @@ void kvm_arch_vcpu_put_debug_state_flags(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
>   	vcpu_clear_flag(vcpu, DEBUG_STATE_SAVE_SPE);
>   	vcpu_clear_flag(vcpu, DEBUG_STATE_SAVE_TRFCR);
>   }
> +
> +void kvm_etm_set_guest_trfcr(u64 trfcr_guest)
> +{
> +	if (has_vhe())
> +		write_sysreg_s(trfcr_guest, SYS_TRFCR_EL12);
> +	else
> +		*this_cpu_ptr(&guest_trfcr) = trfcr_guest;
> +}
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kvm_etm_set_guest_trfcr);
> +
> +/*
> + * Updates the vcpu's view of the etm events for this cpu. Must be
> + * called before every vcpu run after disabling interrupts, to ensure
> + * that an interrupt cannot fire and update the structure.
> + */
> +void kvm_etm_update_vcpu_events(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
> +{
> +	if (!has_vhe() && vcpu_get_flag(vcpu, DEBUG_STATE_SAVE_TRFCR))
> +		ctxt_sys_reg(&vcpu->arch.ctxt, TRFCR_EL1) = *this_cpu_ptr(&guest_trfcr);
> +}




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