From: mark.rutland@arm.com (Mark Rutland)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH] kvm: arm64: fix caching of host MDCR_EL2 value
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2018 17:42:10 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181017164210.16094-1-mark.rutland@arm.com> (raw)
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.
Fixes: 1e947bad0b63b351 ("arm64: KVM: Skip HYP setup when already running in HYP")
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Christopher Dall <christoffer.dall@arm.com>
Cc: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
Cc: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
Cc: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: kvmarm at lists.cs.columbia.edu
---
virt/kvm/arm/arm.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/virt/kvm/arm/arm.c b/virt/kvm/arm/arm.c
index c92053bc3f96..8fb31a7cc22c 100644
--- a/virt/kvm/arm/arm.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/arm/arm.c
@@ -1295,8 +1295,6 @@ 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)
@@ -1320,6 +1318,8 @@ static void cpu_hyp_reinit(void)
cpu_init_hyp_mode(NULL);
}
+ kvm_arm_init_debug();
+
if (vgic_present)
kvm_vgic_init_cpu_hardware();
}
--
2.11.0
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2018-10-17 16:42 Mark Rutland [this message]
2018-10-17 16:51 ` [PATCH] kvm: arm64: fix caching of host MDCR_EL2 value Marc Zyngier
2018-10-17 17:13 ` Robin Murphy
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