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Andrew Murray 435e53fb5e arm64: KVM: Enable VHE support for :G/:H perf event modifiers
With VHE different exception levels are used between the host (EL2) and
guest (EL1) with a shared exception level for userpace (EL0). We can take
advantage of this and use the PMU's exception level filtering to avoid
enabling/disabling counters in the world-switch code. Instead we just
modify the counter type to include or exclude EL0 at vcpu_{load,put} time.

We also ensure that trapped PMU system register writes do not re-enable
EL0 when reconfiguring the backing perf events.

This approach completely avoids blackout windows seen with !VHE.

Suggested-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Murray <andrew.murray@arm.com>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
2019-04-24 15:46:26 +01:00
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kvm arm64: KVM: Enable VHE support for :G/:H perf event modifiers 2019-04-24 15:46:26 +01:00
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