Re: [PATCH stable-4.9] KVM: arm64: Fix caching of host MDCR_EL2 value

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Mon, Nov 12, 2018 at 08:27:07AM +0000, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> From: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
> 
> commit da5a3ce66b8bb51b0ea8a89f42aac153903f90fb upstream.
> 
> 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>
> ---
>  arch/arm/kvm/arm.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Now queued up, thanks.

greg k-h