[PATCH v3 31/32] KVM: arm64: Disable PMU support in protected mode

Will Deacon will at kernel.org
Fri Mar 5 19:02:06 GMT 2021


On Tue, Mar 02, 2021 at 03:00:01PM +0000, Quentin Perret wrote:
> The host currently writes directly in EL2 per-CPU data sections from
> the PMU code when running in nVHE. In preparation for unmapping the EL2
> sections from the host stage 2, disable PMU support in protected mode as
> we currently do not have a use-case for it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Quentin Perret <qperret at google.com>
> ---
>  arch/arm64/kvm/perf.c | 3 ++-
>  arch/arm64/kvm/pmu.c  | 8 ++++----
>  2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

Acked-by: Will Deacon <will at kernel.org>

Will



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