[PATCH 23/26] KVM: arm64: Fix caching of host MDCR_EL2 value

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From: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx>

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@xxxxxxx>
Cc: James Morse <james.morse@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx>
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Fixes: 1e947bad0b63b351 ("arm64: KVM: Skip HYP setup when already running in HYP")
Tested-by: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@xxxxxxx>
---
 virt/kvm/arm/arm.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/virt/kvm/arm/arm.c b/virt/kvm/arm/arm.c
index 4ce99bb223bc..4c5ff06b18f9 100644
--- a/virt/kvm/arm/arm.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/arm/arm.c
@@ -1296,8 +1296,6 @@ static void cpu_init_hyp_mode(void *dummy)
 
 	__cpu_init_hyp_mode(pgd_ptr, hyp_stack_ptr, vector_ptr);
 	__cpu_init_stage2();
-
-	kvm_arm_init_debug();
 }
 
 static void cpu_hyp_reset(void)
@@ -1315,6 +1313,8 @@ static void cpu_hyp_reinit(void)
 	else
 		cpu_init_hyp_mode(NULL);
 
+	kvm_arm_init_debug();
+
 	if (vgic_present)
 		kvm_vgic_init_cpu_hardware();
 }
-- 
2.19.1




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