Re: [PATCH v7 07/12] KVM: arm64: PMU: Set PMCR_EL0.N for vCPU based on the associated PMU

[Sebastian Ott]

On Mon, 9 Oct 2023, Raghavendra Rao Ananta wrote:
> u64 kvm_vcpu_read_pmcr(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
> {
> -	return __vcpu_sys_reg(vcpu, PMCR_EL0);
> +	u64 pmcr = __vcpu_sys_reg(vcpu, PMCR_EL0) &
> +			~(ARMV8_PMU_PMCR_N_MASK << ARMV8_PMU_PMCR_N_SHIFT);
> +
> +	return pmcr | ((u64)vcpu->kvm->arch.pmcr_n << ARMV8_PMU_PMCR_N_SHIFT);
> }
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/sys_regs.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/sys_regs.c
> index ff0f7095eaca..c750722fbe4a 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kvm/sys_regs.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/sys_regs.c
> @@ -745,12 +745,8 @@ static u64 reset_pmcr(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, const struct sys_reg_desc *r)
> {
> 	u64 pmcr;
>
> -	/* No PMU available, PMCR_EL0 may UNDEF... */
> -	if (!kvm_arm_support_pmu_v3())
> -		return 0;
> -
> 	/* Only preserve PMCR_EL0.N, and reset the rest to 0 */
> -	pmcr = read_sysreg(pmcr_el0) & (ARMV8_PMU_PMCR_N_MASK << ARMV8_PMU_PMCR_N_SHIFT);
> +	pmcr = kvm_vcpu_read_pmcr(vcpu) & (ARMV8_PMU_PMCR_N_MASK << ARMV8_PMU_PMCR_N_SHIFT);

pmcr = ((u64)vcpu->kvm->arch.pmcr_n << ARMV8_PMU_PMCR_N_SHIFT);
Would that maybe make it more clear what is done here?