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commit da5a3ce66b8bb51b0ea8a89f42aac153903f90fb upstream. 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. Cc: Christopher Dall <christoffer.dall@arm.com> Cc: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 1e947bad0b63b351 ("arm64: KVM: Skip HYP setup when already running in HYP") Tested-by: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.