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Mark Rutland authored
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: 1e947bad ("arm64: KVM: Skip HYP setup when already running in HYP")
Tested-by: default avatarRobin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMarc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
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