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Commit f436b2ac authored by Lorenzo Pieralisi's avatar Lorenzo Pieralisi Committed by Will Deacon
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arm64: kernel: fix architected PMU registers unconditional access



The Performance Monitors extension is an optional feature of the
AArch64 architecture, therefore, in order to access Performance
Monitors registers safely, the kernel should detect the architected
PMU unit presence through the ID_AA64DFR0_EL1 register PMUVer field
before accessing them.

This patch implements a guard by reading the ID_AA64DFR0_EL1 register
PMUVer field to detect the architected PMU presence and prevent accessing
PMU system registers if the Performance Monitors extension is not
implemented in the core.

Cc: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Fixes: 60792ad3 ("arm64: kernel: enforce pmuserenr_el0 initialization and restore")
Signed-off-by: default avatarLorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com>
Reported-by: default avatarGuenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Tested-by: default avatarGuenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
parent 7b1af979
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