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* FAILED: patch "[PATCH] KVM: arm64: Fix caching of host MDCR_EL2 value" failed to apply to 4.9-stable tree
@ 2018-11-11  1:41 gregkh
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From: gregkh @ 2018-11-11  1:41 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: mark.rutland, christoffer.dall, james.morse, marc.zyngier,
	robin.murphy, will.deacon
  Cc: stable


The patch below does not apply to the 4.9-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
id to <stable@vger.kernel.org>.

thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

>From da5a3ce66b8bb51b0ea8a89f42aac153903f90fb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2018 17:42:10 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] KVM: arm64: Fix caching of host MDCR_EL2 value

At boot time, KVM stashes the host MDCR_EL2 value, but only does this
when the kernel is not running in hyp mode (i.e. is non-VHE). In these
cases, the stashed value of MDCR_EL2.HPMN happens to be zero, which can
lead to CONSTRAINED UNPREDICTABLE behaviour.

Since we use this value to derive the MDCR_EL2 value when switching
to/from a guest, after a guest have been run, the performance counters
do not behave as expected. This has been observed to result in accesses
via PMXEVTYPER_EL0 and PMXEVCNTR_EL0 not affecting the relevant
counters, resulting in events not being counted. In these cases, only
the fixed-purpose cycle counter appears to work as expected.

Fix this by always stashing the host MDCR_EL2 value, regardless of VHE.

Cc: Christopher Dall <christoffer.dall@arm.com>
Cc: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 1e947bad0b63b351 ("arm64: KVM: Skip HYP setup when already running in HYP")
Tested-by: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>

diff --git a/virt/kvm/arm/arm.c b/virt/kvm/arm/arm.c
index 4ce99bb223bc..4c5ff06b18f9 100644
--- a/virt/kvm/arm/arm.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/arm/arm.c
@@ -1296,8 +1296,6 @@ static void cpu_init_hyp_mode(void *dummy)
 
 	__cpu_init_hyp_mode(pgd_ptr, hyp_stack_ptr, vector_ptr);
 	__cpu_init_stage2();
-
-	kvm_arm_init_debug();
 }
 
 static void cpu_hyp_reset(void)
@@ -1315,6 +1313,8 @@ static void cpu_hyp_reinit(void)
 	else
 		cpu_init_hyp_mode(NULL);
 
+	kvm_arm_init_debug();
+
 	if (vgic_present)
 		kvm_vgic_init_cpu_hardware();
 }

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