It recently appeared that, whien running VHE, there is a notable
difference between using CNTKCTL_EL1 and CNTHCTL_EL2, despite what
the architecture documents:
- When accessed from EL2, bits [19:18] and [16:10] same bits have
the same assignment as CNTHCTL_EL2
- When accessed from EL1, bits [19:18] and [16:10] are RES0
It is all OK, until you factor in NV, where the EL2 guest runs at EL1.
In this configuration, CNTKCTL_EL11 doesn't trap, nor ends up in
the VNCR page. This means that any write from the guest affecting
CNTHCTL_EL2 using CNTKCTL_EL1 ends up losing some state. Not good.
The fix it obvious: don't use CNTKCTL_EL1 if you want to change bits
that are not part of the EL1 definition of CNTKCTL_EL1, and use
CNTHCTL_EL2 instead. This doesn't change anything for a bare-metal OS,
and fixes it when running under NV. The NV hypervisor will itself
have to work harder to merge the two accessors.
Note that there is a pending update to the architecture to address
this issue by making the affected bits UNKNOWN when CNTKCTL_EL1 is
user from EL2 with VHE enabled.
Fixes: c605ee245097 ("KVM: arm64: timers: Allow physical offset without CNTPOFF_EL2")
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # v6.4
---
arch/arm64/kvm/arch_timer.c | 6 +++---
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/arch_timer.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/arch_timer.c
index 0696732fa38c..6dcdae4d38cb 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/arch_timer.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/arch_timer.c
@@ -827,8 +827,8 @@ static void timer_set_traps(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct timer_map *map)
assign_clear_set_bit(tpt, CNTHCTL_EL1PCEN << 10, set, clr);
assign_clear_set_bit(tpc, CNTHCTL_EL1PCTEN << 10, set, clr);
- /* This only happens on VHE, so use the CNTKCTL_EL1 accessor */
- sysreg_clear_set(cntkctl_el1, clr, set);
+ /* This only happens on VHE, so use the CNTHCTL_EL2 accessor. */
+ sysreg_clear_set(cnthctl_el2, clr, set);
}
void kvm_timer_vcpu_load(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
@@ -1563,7 +1563,7 @@ int kvm_timer_enable(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
void kvm_timer_init_vhe(void)
{
if (cpus_have_final_cap(ARM64_HAS_ECV_CNTPOFF))
- sysreg_clear_set(cntkctl_el1, 0, CNTHCTL_ECV);
+ sysreg_clear_set(cnthctl_el2, 0, CNTHCTL_ECV);
}
int kvm_arm_timer_set_attr(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct kvm_device_attr *attr)
--
2.34.1
