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SubjectRe: [PATCH v3 1/1] KVM: ARM64: Fix the issues when guest PMCCFILTR is configured
On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 11:09:20AM -0600, Wei Huang wrote:
> KVM calls kvm_pmu_set_counter_event_type() when PMCCFILTR is configured.
> But this function can't deals with PMCCFILTR correctly because the evtCount
> bits of PMCCFILTR, which is reserved 0, conflits with the SW_INCR event
> type of other PMXEVTYPER<n> registers. To fix it, when eventsel == 0, this
> function shouldn't return immediately; instead it needs to check further
> if select_idx is ARMV8_PMU_CYCLE_IDX.
>
> Another issue is that KVM shouldn't copy the eventsel bits of PMCCFILTER
> blindly to attr.config. Instead it ought to convert the request to the
> "cpu cycle" event type (i.e. 0x11).
>
> To support this patch and to prevent duplicated definitions, a limited
> set of ARMv8 perf event types were relocated from perf_event.c to
> asm/perf_event.h.
>
> Signed-off-by: Wei Huang <wei@redhat.com>
> ---
> arch/arm64/include/asm/perf_event.h | 10 +++++++++-
> arch/arm64/kernel/perf_event.c | 10 +---------
> virt/kvm/arm/pmu.c | 8 +++++---
> 3 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>

I'm assuming this will go via kvm-arm.

Will

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