Russell reported that since 5.13, KVM's probing of the PMU has started to fail on his HW. As it turns out, there is an implicit ordering dependency between the architectural PMU probing code and and KVM's own probing. If, due to probe ordering reasons, KVM probes before the PMU driver, it will fail to detect the PMU and prevent it from being advertised to guests as well as the VMM. Obviously, this is one probing too many, and we should be able to deal with any ordering. Add a callback from the PMU code into KVM to advertise the registration of a host CPU PMU, allowing for any probing order. Fixes: 5421db1be3b1 ("KVM: arm64: Divorce the perf code from oprofile helpers") Reported-by: "Russell King (Oracle)" <linux@armlinux.org.uk> Tested-by: Russell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/YUYRKVflRtUytzy5@shell.armlinux.org.uk Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
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