linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.9 051/310] arm64: perf: Ignore exclude

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Date:   Wed, 11 Apr 2018 20:33:10 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org,
        Ganapatrao Kulkarni <ganapatrao.kulkarni@...ium.com>,
        Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@...rosoft.com>
Subject: [PATCH 4.9 051/310] arm64: perf: Ignore exclude_hv when kernel is running in HYP

4.9-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Ganapatrao Kulkarni <ganapatrao.kulkarni@...ium.com>


[ Upstream commit 78a19cfdf37d19002c83c8790853c1cc10feccdc ]

commit d98ecdaca296 ("arm64: perf: Count EL2 events if the kernel is
running in HYP") returns -EINVAL when perf system call perf_event_open is
called with exclude_hv != exclude_kernel. This change breaks applications
on VHE enabled ARMv8.1 platforms. The issue was observed with HHVM
application, which calls perf_event_open with exclude_hv = 1 and
exclude_kernel = 0.

There is no separate hypervisor privilege level when VHE is enabled, the
host kernel runs at EL2. So when VHE is enabled, we should ignore
exclude_hv from the application. This behaviour is consistent with PowerPC
where the exclude_hv is ignored when the hypervisor is not present and with
x86 where this flag is ignored.

Signed-off-by: Ganapatrao Kulkarni <ganapatrao.kulkarni@...ium.com>
[will: added comment to justify the behaviour of exclude_hv]
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@...rosoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
---
 arch/arm64/kernel/perf_event.c |   23 ++++++++++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/perf_event.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/perf_event.c
@@ -871,15 +871,24 @@ static int armv8pmu_set_event_filter(str
 
 	if (attr->exclude_idle)
 		return -EPERM;
-	if (is_kernel_in_hyp_mode() &&
-	    attr->exclude_kernel != attr->exclude_hv)
-		return -EINVAL;
+
+	/*
+	 * If we're running in hyp mode, then we *are* the hypervisor.
+	 * Therefore we ignore exclude_hv in this configuration, since
+	 * there's no hypervisor to sample anyway. This is consistent
+	 * with other architectures (x86 and Power).
+	 */
+	if (is_kernel_in_hyp_mode()) {
+		if (!attr->exclude_kernel)
+			config_base |= ARMV8_PMU_INCLUDE_EL2;
+	} else {
+		if (attr->exclude_kernel)
+			config_base |= ARMV8_PMU_EXCLUDE_EL1;
+		if (!attr->exclude_hv)
+			config_base |= ARMV8_PMU_INCLUDE_EL2;
+	}
 	if (attr->exclude_user)
 		config_base |= ARMV8_PMU_EXCLUDE_EL0;
-	if (!is_kernel_in_hyp_mode() && attr->exclude_kernel)
-		config_base |= ARMV8_PMU_EXCLUDE_EL1;
-	if (!attr->exclude_hv)
-		config_base |= ARMV8_PMU_INCLUDE_EL2;
 
 	/*
 	 * Install the filter into config_base as this is used to