summaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/arch/arm64/kvm/pmu-emul.c
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/arm64/kvm/pmu-emul.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/arm64/kvm/pmu-emul.c12
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/pmu-emul.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/pmu-emul.c
index 5deddc49e745..491ca7eb2a4c 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/pmu-emul.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/pmu-emul.c
@@ -890,7 +890,17 @@ int kvm_arm_pmu_v3_set_attr(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct kvm_device_attr *attr)
return -EBUSY;
if (!kvm->arch.arm_pmu) {
- /* No PMU set, get the default one */
+ /*
+ * No PMU set, get the default one.
+ *
+ * The observant among you will notice that the supported_cpus
+ * mask does not get updated for the default PMU even though it
+ * is quite possible the selected instance supports only a
+ * subset of cores in the system. This is intentional, and
+ * upholds the preexisting behavior on heterogeneous systems
+ * where vCPUs can be scheduled on any core but the guest
+ * counters could stop working.
+ */
kvm->arch.arm_pmu = kvm_pmu_probe_armpmu();
if (!kvm->arch.arm_pmu)
return -ENODEV;