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arm64: KVM: pmu: Reset PMSELR_EL0.SEL to a sane value before entering the guest
authorMarc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
Tue, 6 Dec 2016 14:34:22 +0000 (14:34 +0000)
committerMarc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
Fri, 9 Dec 2016 15:47:00 +0000 (15:47 +0000)
commit21cbe3cc8a48ff17059912e019fbde28ed54745a
tree6137c0015f8f1ac21d76c80be16215d17106a054
parent8e1a0476f8563cadfa32e9b4fff39c4224553b1e
arm64: KVM: pmu: Reset PMSELR_EL0.SEL to a sane value before entering the guest

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.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org #4.6+
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/switch.c