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    arm64: KVM: pmu: Reset PMSELR_EL0.SEL to a sane value before entering the guest · 21cbe3cc
    Marc Zyngier authored
    The ARMv8 architecture allows the cycle counter to be configured
    by setting PMSELR_EL0.SEL==0x1f and then accessing PMXEVTYPER_EL0,
    hence accessing PMCCFILTR_EL0. But it disallows the use of
    PMSELR_EL0.SEL==0x1f to access the cycle counter itself through
    PMXEVCNTR_EL0.
    
    Linux itself doesn't violate this rule, but we may end up with
    PMSELR_EL0.SEL being set to 0x1f when we enter a guest. If that
    guest accesses PMXEVCNTR_EL0, the access may UNDEF at EL1,
    despite the guest not having done anything wrong.
    
    In order to avoid this unfortunate course of events (haha!), let's
    sanitize PMSELR_EL0 on guest entry. This ensures that the guest
    won't explode unexpectedly.
    
    Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org #4.6+
    Acked-by: default avatarWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMarc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
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