Patch "arm64: perf: Ignore exclude_hv when kernel is running in HYP" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

Patch "arm64: perf: Ignore exclude_hv when kernel is running in HYP" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

[gregkh]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    arm64: perf: Ignore exclude_hv when kernel is running in HYP

to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     arm64-perf-ignore-exclude_hv-when-kernel-is-running-in-hyp.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From foo@baz Mon Apr  9 17:09:24 CEST 2018
From: Ganapatrao Kulkarni <ganapatrao.kulkarni@cavium.com>
Date: Tue, 2 May 2017 21:59:34 +0530
Subject: arm64: perf: Ignore exclude_hv when kernel is running in HYP

From: Ganapatrao Kulkarni <ganapatrao.kulkarni@cavium.com>


[ Upstream commit 78a19cfdf37d19002c83c8790853c1cc10feccdc ]

commit d98ecdaca296 ("arm64: perf: Count EL2 events if the kernel is
running in HYP") returns -EINVAL when perf system call perf_event_open is
called with exclude_hv != exclude_kernel. This change breaks applications
on VHE enabled ARMv8.1 platforms. The issue was observed with HHVM
application, which calls perf_event_open with exclude_hv = 1 and
exclude_kernel = 0.

There is no separate hypervisor privilege level when VHE is enabled, the
host kernel runs at EL2. So when VHE is enabled, we should ignore
exclude_hv from the application. This behaviour is consistent with PowerPC
where the exclude_hv is ignored when the hypervisor is not present and with
x86 where this flag is ignored.

Signed-off-by: Ganapatrao Kulkarni <ganapatrao.kulkarni@cavium.com>
[will: added comment to justify the behaviour of exclude_hv]
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 arch/arm64/kernel/perf_event.c |   23 ++++++++++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/perf_event.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/perf_event.c
@@ -871,15 +871,24 @@ static int armv8pmu_set_event_filter(str
 
 	if (attr->exclude_idle)
 		return -EPERM;
-	if (is_kernel_in_hyp_mode() &&
-	    attr->exclude_kernel != attr->exclude_hv)
-		return -EINVAL;
+
+	/*
+	 * If we're running in hyp mode, then we *are* the hypervisor.
+	 * Therefore we ignore exclude_hv in this configuration, since
+	 * there's no hypervisor to sample anyway. This is consistent
+	 * with other architectures (x86 and Power).
+	 */
+	if (is_kernel_in_hyp_mode()) {
+		if (!attr->exclude_kernel)
+			config_base |= ARMV8_PMU_INCLUDE_EL2;
+	} else {
+		if (attr->exclude_kernel)
+			config_base |= ARMV8_PMU_EXCLUDE_EL1;
+		if (!attr->exclude_hv)
+			config_base |= ARMV8_PMU_INCLUDE_EL2;
+	}
 	if (attr->exclude_user)
 		config_base |= ARMV8_PMU_EXCLUDE_EL0;
-	if (!is_kernel_in_hyp_mode() && attr->exclude_kernel)
-		config_base |= ARMV8_PMU_EXCLUDE_EL1;
-	if (!attr->exclude_hv)
-		config_base |= ARMV8_PMU_INCLUDE_EL2;
 
 	/*
 	 * Install the filter into config_base as this is used to


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from ganapatrao.kulkarni@cavium.com are

queue-4.9/arm64-perf-ignore-exclude_hv-when-kernel-is-running-in-hyp.patch