From: marc.zyngier@arm.com (Marc Zyngier)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH v2] arm64: KVM: pmu: Reset PMSELR_EL0.SEL to a sane value before entering the guest
Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2016 14:56:50 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1481036210-31816-1-git-send-email-marc.zyngier@arm.com> (raw)
The ARMv8 architecture allows the cycle counter to be configured
by setting PMSELR_EL0.SEL==0x1f and then accessing PMXEVTYPER_EL0,
hence accessing PMCCFILTR_EL0. But it disallows the use of
PMSELR_EL0.SEL==0x1f to access the cycle counter itself through
PMXEVCNTR_EL0.
Linux itself doesn't violate this rule, but we may end up with
PMSELR_EL0.SEL being set to 0x1f when we enter a guest. If that
guest accesses PMXEVCNTR_EL0, the access may UNDEF at EL1,
despite the guest not having done anything wrong.
In order to avoid this unfortunate course of events (haha!), let's
sanitize PMSELR_EL0 on guest entry. This ensures that the guest
won't explode unexpectedly.
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
---
This is another approach to fix this issue, this time nuking PMSELR_EL0
on guest entry instead of relying on perf not to clobber the register.
Tested on v4.9-rc8 with a Rev A3 X-Gene.
arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/switch.c | 8 +++++++-
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/switch.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/switch.c
index 83037cd..3b7cfbd 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/switch.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/switch.c
@@ -85,7 +85,13 @@ static void __hyp_text __activate_traps(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
write_sysreg(val, hcr_el2);
/* Trap on AArch32 cp15 c15 accesses (EL1 or EL0) */
write_sysreg(1 << 15, hstr_el2);
- /* Make sure we trap PMU access from EL0 to EL2 */
+ /*
+ * Make sure we trap PMU access from EL0 to EL2. Also sanitize
+ * PMSELR_EL0 to make sure it never contains the cycle
+ * counter, which could make a PMXEVCNTR_EL0 access UNDEF.
+ */
+ if (vcpu->arch.mdcr_el2 & MDCR_EL2_HPMN_MASK)
+ write_sysreg(0, pmselr_el0);
write_sysreg(ARMV8_PMU_USERENR_MASK, pmuserenr_el0);
write_sysreg(vcpu->arch.mdcr_el2, mdcr_el2);
__activate_traps_arch()();
--
2.1.4
next reply other threads:[~2016-12-06 14:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-12-06 14:56 Marc Zyngier [this message]
2016-12-06 15:27 ` [PATCH v2] arm64: KVM: pmu: Reset PMSELR_EL0.SEL to a sane value before entering the guest Will Deacon
2016-12-06 15:42 ` Marc Zyngier
2016-12-06 16:29 ` Christoffer Dall
2016-12-06 16:37 ` Will Deacon
2016-12-06 17:17 ` Marc Zyngier
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