Re: [PATCH 1/1] KVM: arm64: PMU: Avoid inappropriate use of host's PMUVer

Oliver Upton
2023-06-14T12:42:10Z

On Mon, Jun 12, 2023 at 05:26:33PM -0700, Reiji Watanabe wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 12, 2023 at 09:36:38PM +0200, Oliver Upton wrote:
> > I'd rather we start exposing the feature when we provide all the
> > necessary detail.
>
> To confirm, are you suggesting to stop exposing the event even on hosts
> w/o PMMIR_EL1 until KVM gets ready to support PMMIR_EL1 ?
> (guests on those hosts won't get PMMIR_EL1 in any case though?)
> Could you please explain why ?
>
> Perhaps I think I would rather keep the code as it is?
> (since I'm simply not sure what would be the benefits of that)

I'd rather not keep confusing code hanging around. The fact that KVM
does not support the STALL_SLOTS event is invariant of both the hardware
PMU implementation and the userspace value for the ID register field.
Let's make sure the implementation exactly matches this position.

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Thanks,
Oliver