[PATCH v2 0/3] KVM: arm64: Read PMUVer as unsigned

Colton Lewis coltonlewis at google.com
Thu Mar 12 14:44:07 PDT 2026


James Clark <james.clark at linaro.org> writes:

> Fix some issues with the signedness of PMUVer and PerfMon ID fields.

> I ran into the first issue when testing "ARM64 PMU Partitioning" patches
> on the FVP. The second issue was only found by inspection.

> Signed-off-by: James Clark <james.clark at linaro.org>
> ---
> Changes in v2:
> - Handle ID_AA64DFR0_EL1_PMUVer_IMP_DEF correctly by using
>    pmuv3_implemented()
> - Fix another issue with incorrect sign in cpufeature.c
> - Add a commit to refactor has_pmuv3() to use pmuv3_implemented() for
>    consistency
> - Link to v1:  
> https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260305-james-kvm-pmuver-sign-v1-1-eea0a2116dd0@linaro.org

> ---
> James Clark (3):
>        KVM: arm64: Read PMUVer as unsigned
>        arm64: cpufeature: Make PMUVer and PerfMon unsigned
>        arm64: cpufeature: Use pmuv3_implemented() function

>   arch/arm/include/asm/arm_pmuv3.h |  7 +++++++
>   arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c   | 16 ++++------------
>   arch/arm64/kvm/debug.c           |  5 ++++-
>   3 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
> ---
> base-commit: 11439c4635edd669ae435eec308f4ab8a0804808
> change-id: 20260305-james-kvm-pmuver-sign-fe830bdead2d

> Best regards,
> --
> James Clark <james.clark at linaro.org>

Thanks for testing my series James. Glad you caught this

Reviewed-by: Colton Lewis <coltonlewis at google.com>



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