arm64: perf: Ignore exclude_hv when kernel is running in HYP
commit d98ecdac ("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@cavium.com> [will: added comment to justify the behaviour of exclude_hv] Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
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