[PATCH v2] KVM: arm64: pmu: Resync EL0 state on counter rotation

Marc Zyngier maz at kernel.org
Tue Aug 22 05:39:55 PDT 2023


On Sun, 20 Aug 2023 10:01:08 +0100, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> Huang Shijie reports that, when profiling a guest from the host
> with a number of events that exceeds the number of available
> counters, the reported counts are wildly inaccurate. Without
> the counter oversubscription, the reported counts are correct.
> 
> Their investigation indicates that upon counter rotation (which
> takes place on the back of a timer interrupt), we fail to
> re-apply the guest EL0 enabling, leading to the counting of host
> events instead of guest events.
> 
> [...]

Applied to next, thanks!

[1/1] KVM: arm64: pmu: Resync EL0 state on counter rotation
      commit: b1f778a223a2a8ad6262e5233cfc3483bcf6e213

Cheers,

	M.
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