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From: Qiang Ma <maqianga@uniontech.com>
To: maz@kernel.org, oupton@kernel.org, joey.gouly@arm.com,
	suzuki.poulose@arm.com, yuzenghui@huawei.com,
	catalin.marinas@arm.com, will@kernel.org
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, kvmarm@lists.linux.dev,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Qiang Ma <maqianga@uniontech.com>
Subject: [PATCH] KVM: arm64: PMU: Preserve AArch32 counter low bits
Date: Tue, 26 May 2026 15:46:40 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260526074640.791991-1-maqianga@uniontech.com> (raw)

AArch32 writes to PMU event counters cannot update the top 32 bits,
even when PMUv3p5 makes the counters 64-bit. KVM therefore needs to
preserve the existing high half and only update the low half written by
the guest, unless the caller explicitly forces a full reset through
PMCR.P.

The current code masks @val down to the old high half before taking
lower_32_bits(val), which means the low half is always zero. As a
result, AArch32 writes to event counters discard the guest-provided low
32 bits instead of storing them.

Build the new value from the old high 32 bits and the low 32 bits of
the value supplied by the guest.

Fixes: 26d2d0594d70 ("KVM: arm64: PMU: Do not let AArch32 change the counters' top 32 bits")

Signed-off-by: Qiang Ma <maqianga@uniontech.com>
---
 arch/arm64/kvm/pmu-emul.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/pmu-emul.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/pmu-emul.c
index e1860acae641..c816db5d6761 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/pmu-emul.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/pmu-emul.c
@@ -174,8 +174,8 @@ static void kvm_pmu_set_pmc_value(struct kvm_pmc *pmc, u64 val, bool force)
 		 * action is to use PMCR.P, which will reset them to
 		 * 0 (the only use of the 'force' parameter).
 		 */
-		val  = __vcpu_sys_reg(vcpu, reg) & GENMASK(63, 32);
-		val |= lower_32_bits(val);
+		val = (__vcpu_sys_reg(vcpu, reg) & GENMASK(63, 32)) |
+		      lower_32_bits(val);
 	}
 
 	__vcpu_assign_sys_reg(vcpu, reg, val);
-- 
2.20.1



             reply	other threads:[~2026-05-26  7:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-05-26  7:46 Qiang Ma [this message]
2026-05-27 10:35 ` [PATCH] KVM: arm64: PMU: Preserve AArch32 counter low bits Marc Zyngier

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