[PATCH 2/2] KVM: arm64: Contextualise the handling of PMCR_EL0.P writes

Marc Zyngier maz at kernel.org
Mon Feb 17 03:24:12 PST 2025


Contrary to what the comment says in kvm_pmu_handle_pmcr(),
writing PMCR_EL0.P==1 has the following effects:

<quote>
The event counters affected by this field are:
  * All event counters in the first range.
  * If any of the following are true, all event counters in the second
    range:
    - EL2 is disabled or not implemented in the current Security state.
    - The PE is executing at EL2 or EL3.
</quote>

where the "first range" represent the counters in the [0..HPMN-1]
range, and the "second range" the counters in the [HPMN..MAX] range.

It so appears that writing P from EL2 should nuke all counters,
and not just the "guest" view. Just do that, and nuke the misleading
comment.

Reported-by: Joey Gouly <joey.gouly at arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz at kernel.org>
---
 arch/arm64/kvm/pmu-emul.c | 8 +++-----
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/pmu-emul.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/pmu-emul.c
index 5a71c3744c4d7..636cae89310cd 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/pmu-emul.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/pmu-emul.c
@@ -617,14 +617,12 @@ void kvm_pmu_handle_pmcr(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u64 val)
 		kvm_pmu_set_counter_value(vcpu, ARMV8_PMU_CYCLE_IDX, 0);
 
 	if (val & ARMV8_PMU_PMCR_P) {
-		/*
-		 * Unlike other PMU sysregs, the controls in PMCR_EL0 always apply
-		 * to the 'guest' range of counters and never the 'hyp' range.
-		 */
 		unsigned long mask = kvm_pmu_implemented_counter_mask(vcpu) &
-				     ~kvm_pmu_hyp_counter_mask(vcpu) &
 				     ~BIT(ARMV8_PMU_CYCLE_IDX);
 
+		if (!vcpu_is_el2(vcpu))
+			mask &= ~kvm_pmu_hyp_counter_mask(vcpu);
+
 		for_each_set_bit(i, &mask, 32)
 			kvm_pmu_set_pmc_value(kvm_vcpu_idx_to_pmc(vcpu, i), 0, true);
 	}
-- 
2.39.2




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