[PATCH] KVM: arm64: Don't zero the cycle count register when PMCR_EL0.P is set

Alexandru Elisei alexandru.elisei at arm.com
Fri Jun 18 03:51:39 PDT 2021


According to ARM DDI 0487G.a, page D13-3895, setting the PMCR_EL0.P bit to
1 has the following effect:

"Reset all event counters accessible in the current Exception level, not
including PMCCNTR_EL0, to zero."

Similar behaviour is described for AArch32 on page G8-7022. Make it so.

Fixes: c01d6a18023b ("KVM: arm64: pmu: Only handle supported event counters")
Signed-off-by: Alexandru Elisei <alexandru.elisei at arm.com>
---
Found by code inspection.

Entertained the idea of restricting the number of bits in
for_each_set_bit() to 31 since Linux (and the architecture, to some degree)
treats the cycle count register as the 32nd event counter. Settled on this
approach because I think it's clearer.

 arch/arm64/kvm/pmu-emul.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/pmu-emul.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/pmu-emul.c
index fd167d4f4215..ecc0d19c8cc1 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/pmu-emul.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/pmu-emul.c
@@ -578,6 +578,7 @@ 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) {
+		mask &= ~BIT(ARMV8_PMU_CYCLE_IDX);
 		for_each_set_bit(i, &mask, 32)
 			kvm_pmu_set_counter_value(vcpu, i, 0);
 	}
-- 
2.32.0




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