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Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/events')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/events/intel/core.c | 13 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/events/intel/core.c b/arch/x86/events/intel/core.c index c91434056c29..a3c7ca876aeb 100644 --- a/arch/x86/events/intel/core.c +++ b/arch/x86/events/intel/core.c @@ -4703,6 +4703,19 @@ static __initconst const struct x86_pmu intel_pmu = { .lbr_read = intel_pmu_lbr_read_64, .lbr_save = intel_pmu_lbr_save, .lbr_restore = intel_pmu_lbr_restore, + + /* + * SMM has access to all 4 rings and while traditionally SMM code only + * ran in CPL0, 2021-era firmware is starting to make use of CPL3 in SMM. + * + * Since the EVENTSEL.{USR,OS} CPL filtering makes no distinction + * between SMM or not, this results in what should be pure userspace + * counters including SMM data. + * + * This is a clear privilege issue, therefore globally disable + * counting SMM by default. + */ + .attr_freeze_on_smi = 1, }; static __init void intel_clovertown_quirk(void) |