linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v7 03/12] KVM: arm64: PMU: Clear PM{C,I}NTEN{SET,CLR} and PMOVS{SET,CLR} on vCPU reset

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Message-ID: <ZTBZYNPMw4A7kr6n@linux.dev>
Date:   Wed, 18 Oct 2023 22:17:04 +0000
From:   Oliver Upton <oliver.upton@...ux.dev>
To:     Raghavendra Rao Ananta <rananta@...gle.com>
Cc:     Eric Auger <eauger@...hat.com>, Marc Zyngier <maz@...nel.org>,
        Alexandru Elisei <alexandru.elisei@....com>,
        James Morse <james.morse@....com>,
        Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@....com>,
        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        Zenghui Yu <yuzenghui@...wei.com>,
        Shaoqin Huang <shahuang@...hat.com>,
        Jing Zhang <jingzhangos@...gle.com>,
        Reiji Watanabe <reijiw@...gle.com>,
        Colton Lewis <coltonlewis@...gle.com>,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, kvmarm@...ts.linux.dev,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 03/12] KVM: arm64: PMU: Clear PM{C,I}NTEN{SET,CLR} and
 PMOVS{SET,CLR} on vCPU reset

On Wed, Oct 18, 2023 at 02:16:36PM -0700, Raghavendra Rao Ananta wrote:

[...]

> I had a brief discussion about this with Oliver, and it looks like we
> might need a couple of additional changes for these register accesses:
> - For the userspace accesses, we have to implement explicit get_user
> and set_user callbacks that to filter out the unimplemented counters
> using kvm_pmu_valid_counter_mask().
> - For the guest accesses to be correct, we might have to apply the
> same mask while serving KVM_REQ_RELOAD_PMU.

To be precise, the second issue is that we want to make sure KVM's PMU
emulation never uses an invalid value for the configuration, like
enabling a PMC at an index inaccessible to the guest.

-- 
Thanks,
Oliver