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SubjectRe: [PATCH v3 09/14] RISC-V: KVM: Make PMU functionality depend on Sscofpmf
On Fri, Jan 27, 2023 at 11:56 PM Atish Patra <atishp@rivosinc.com> wrote:
>
> The privilege mode filtering feature must be available in the host so
> that the host can inhibit the counters while the execution is in HS mode.
> Otherwise, the guests may have access to critical guest information.
>
> Signed-off-by: Atish Patra <atishp@rivosinc.com>

Looks good to me.

Reviewed-by: Anup Patel <anup@brainfault.org>

Regards,
Anup

> ---
> arch/riscv/kvm/vcpu_pmu.c | 8 ++++++++
> 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/riscv/kvm/vcpu_pmu.c b/arch/riscv/kvm/vcpu_pmu.c
> index d3fd551..7713927 100644
> --- a/arch/riscv/kvm/vcpu_pmu.c
> +++ b/arch/riscv/kvm/vcpu_pmu.c
> @@ -79,6 +79,14 @@ int kvm_riscv_vcpu_pmu_init(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
> struct kvm_pmu *kvpmu = vcpu_to_pmu(vcpu);
> struct kvm_pmc *pmc;
>
> + /*
> + * PMU functionality should be only available to guests if privilege mode
> + * filtering is available in the host. Otherwise, guest will always count
> + * events while the execution is in hypervisor mode.
> + */
> + if (!riscv_isa_extension_available(NULL, SSCOFPMF))
> + return 0;
> +
> ret = riscv_pmu_get_hpm_info(&hpm_width, &num_hw_ctrs);
> if (ret < 0)
> return ret;
> --
> 2.25.1
>

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