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<title>linux-toradex.git/drivers/perf/riscv_pmu.c, branch v7.2-rc5</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>Convert 'alloc_obj' family to use the new default GFP_KERNEL argument</title>
<updated>2026-02-22T01:09:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-22T00:37:42+00:00</published>
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This was done entirely with mindless brute force, using

    git grep -l '\&lt;k[vmz]*alloc_objs*(.*, GFP_KERNEL)' |
        xargs sed -i 's/\(alloc_objs*(.*\), GFP_KERNEL)/\1)/'

to convert the new alloc_obj() users that had a simple GFP_KERNEL
argument to just drop that argument.

Note that due to the extreme simplicity of the scripting, any slightly
more complex cases spread over multiple lines would not be triggered:
they definitely exist, but this covers the vast bulk of the cases, and
the resulting diff is also then easier to check automatically.

For the same reason the 'flex' versions will be done as a separate
conversion.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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This was done entirely with mindless brute force, using

    git grep -l '\&lt;k[vmz]*alloc_objs*(.*, GFP_KERNEL)' |
        xargs sed -i 's/\(alloc_objs*(.*\), GFP_KERNEL)/\1)/'

to convert the new alloc_obj() users that had a simple GFP_KERNEL
argument to just drop that argument.

Note that due to the extreme simplicity of the scripting, any slightly
more complex cases spread over multiple lines would not be triggered:
they definitely exist, but this covers the vast bulk of the cases, and
the resulting diff is also then easier to check automatically.

For the same reason the 'flex' versions will be done as a separate
conversion.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>treewide: Replace kmalloc with kmalloc_obj for non-scalar types</title>
<updated>2026-02-21T09:02:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>kees@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-21T07:49:23+00:00</published>
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This is the result of running the Coccinelle script from
scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci. The script is designed to
avoid scalar types (which need careful case-by-case checking), and
instead replace kmalloc-family calls that allocate struct or union
object instances:

Single allocations:	kmalloc(sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_obj(TYPE, ...)

Array allocations:	kmalloc_array(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_objs(TYPE, COUNT, ...)

Flex array allocations:	kmalloc(struct_size(PTR, FAM, COUNT), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_flex(*PTR, FAM, COUNT, ...)

(where TYPE may also be *VAR)

The resulting allocations no longer return "void *", instead returning
"TYPE *".

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
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This is the result of running the Coccinelle script from
scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci. The script is designed to
avoid scalar types (which need careful case-by-case checking), and
instead replace kmalloc-family calls that allocate struct or union
object instances:

Single allocations:	kmalloc(sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_obj(TYPE, ...)

Array allocations:	kmalloc_array(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_objs(TYPE, COUNT, ...)

Flex array allocations:	kmalloc(struct_size(PTR, FAM, COUNT), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_flex(*PTR, FAM, COUNT, ...)

(where TYPE may also be *VAR)

The resulting allocations no longer return "void *", instead returning
"TYPE *".

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>drivers/perf: riscv: Remove redundant macro check</title>
<updated>2024-09-16T03:15:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Xiao Wang</name>
<email>xiao.w.wang@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-07-08T12:12:24+00:00</published>
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The macro CONFIG_RISCV_PMU must have been defined when riscv_pmu.c gets
compiled, so this patch removes the redundant check.

Signed-off-by: Xiao Wang &lt;xiao.w.wang@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Atish Patra &lt;atishp@rivosinc.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240708121224.1148154-1-xiao.w.wang@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmer@rivosinc.com&gt;
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The macro CONFIG_RISCV_PMU must have been defined when riscv_pmu.c gets
compiled, so this patch removes the redundant check.

Signed-off-by: Xiao Wang &lt;xiao.w.wang@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Atish Patra &lt;atishp@rivosinc.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240708121224.1148154-1-xiao.w.wang@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmer@rivosinc.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>drivers/perf: riscv: Do not update the event data if uptodate</title>
<updated>2024-07-03T19:56:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Atish Patra</name>
<email>atishp@rivosinc.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-06-28T07:51:41+00:00</published>
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In case of an counter overflow, the event data may get corrupted
if called from an external overflow handler. This happens because
we can't update the counter without starting it when SBI PMU
extension is in use. However, the prev_count has been already
updated at the first pass while the counter value is still the
old one.

The solution is simple where we don't need to update it again
if it is already updated which can be detected using hwc state.
The event state in the overflow handler is updated in the following
patch. Thus, this fix can't be backported to kernel version where
overflow support was added.

Fixes: a8625217a054 ("drivers/perf: riscv: Implement SBI PMU snapshot function")

Closes:https://lore.kernel.org/all/CC51D53B-846C-4D81-86FC-FBF969D0A0D6@pku.edu.cn/

Reported-by: garthlei@pku.edu.cn
Signed-off-by: Atish Patra &lt;atishp@rivosinc.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240628-misc_perf_fixes-v4-1-e01cfddcf035@rivosinc.com
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmer@rivosinc.com&gt;
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In case of an counter overflow, the event data may get corrupted
if called from an external overflow handler. This happens because
we can't update the counter without starting it when SBI PMU
extension is in use. However, the prev_count has been already
updated at the first pass while the counter value is still the
old one.

The solution is simple where we don't need to update it again
if it is already updated which can be detected using hwc state.
The event state in the overflow handler is updated in the following
patch. Thus, this fix can't be backported to kernel version where
overflow support was added.

Fixes: a8625217a054 ("drivers/perf: riscv: Implement SBI PMU snapshot function")

Closes:https://lore.kernel.org/all/CC51D53B-846C-4D81-86FC-FBF969D0A0D6@pku.edu.cn/

Reported-by: garthlei@pku.edu.cn
Signed-off-by: Atish Patra &lt;atishp@rivosinc.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240628-misc_perf_fixes-v4-1-e01cfddcf035@rivosinc.com
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmer@rivosinc.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>drivers/perf: riscv: Implement SBI PMU snapshot function</title>
<updated>2024-04-26T07:43:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Atish Patra</name>
<email>atishp@rivosinc.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-04-20T15:17:25+00:00</published>
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SBI v2.0 SBI introduced PMU snapshot feature which adds the following
features.

1. Read counter values directly from the shared memory instead of
csr read.
2. Start multiple counters with initial values with one SBI call.

These functionalities optimizes the number of traps to the higher
privilege mode. If the kernel is in VS mode while the hypervisor
deploy trap &amp; emulate method, this would minimize all the hpmcounter
CSR read traps. If the kernel is running in S-mode, the benefits
reduced to CSR latency vs DRAM/cache latency as there is no trap
involved while accessing the hpmcounter CSRs.

In both modes, it does saves the number of ecalls while starting
multiple counter together with an initial values. This is a likely
scenario if multiple counters overflow at the same time.

Acked-by: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmer@rivosinc.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Anup Patel &lt;anup@brainfault.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Conor Dooley &lt;conor.dooley@microchip.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrew Jones &lt;ajones@ventanamicro.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Samuel Holland &lt;samuel.holland@sifive.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Atish Patra &lt;atishp@rivosinc.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240420151741.962500-10-atishp@rivosinc.com
Signed-off-by: Anup Patel &lt;anup@brainfault.org&gt;
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SBI v2.0 SBI introduced PMU snapshot feature which adds the following
features.

1. Read counter values directly from the shared memory instead of
csr read.
2. Start multiple counters with initial values with one SBI call.

These functionalities optimizes the number of traps to the higher
privilege mode. If the kernel is in VS mode while the hypervisor
deploy trap &amp; emulate method, this would minimize all the hpmcounter
CSR read traps. If the kernel is running in S-mode, the benefits
reduced to CSR latency vs DRAM/cache latency as there is no trap
involved while accessing the hpmcounter CSRs.

In both modes, it does saves the number of ecalls while starting
multiple counter together with an initial values. This is a likely
scenario if multiple counters overflow at the same time.

Acked-by: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmer@rivosinc.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Anup Patel &lt;anup@brainfault.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Conor Dooley &lt;conor.dooley@microchip.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrew Jones &lt;ajones@ventanamicro.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Samuel Holland &lt;samuel.holland@sifive.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Atish Patra &lt;atishp@rivosinc.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240420151741.962500-10-atishp@rivosinc.com
Signed-off-by: Anup Patel &lt;anup@brainfault.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>drivers/perf: riscv: Disable PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_* while not supported</title>
<updated>2024-03-26T21:09:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Pu Lehui</name>
<email>pulehui@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-03-12T01:20:53+00:00</published>
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RISC-V perf driver does not yet support branch sampling. Although the
specification is in the works [0], it is best to disable such events
until support is available, otherwise we will get unexpected results.
Due to this reason, two riscv bpf testcases get_branch_snapshot and
perf_branches/perf_branches_hw fail.

Link: https://github.com/riscv/riscv-control-transfer-records [0]
Fixes: f5bfa23f576f ("RISC-V: Add a perf core library for pmu drivers")
Signed-off-by: Pu Lehui &lt;pulehui@huawei.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Atish Patra &lt;atishp@rivosinc.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Conor Dooley &lt;conor.dooley@microchip.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240312012053.1178140-1-pulehui@huaweicloud.com
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmer@rivosinc.com&gt;
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RISC-V perf driver does not yet support branch sampling. Although the
specification is in the works [0], it is best to disable such events
until support is available, otherwise we will get unexpected results.
Due to this reason, two riscv bpf testcases get_branch_snapshot and
perf_branches/perf_branches_hw fail.

Link: https://github.com/riscv/riscv-control-transfer-records [0]
Fixes: f5bfa23f576f ("RISC-V: Add a perf core library for pmu drivers")
Signed-off-by: Pu Lehui &lt;pulehui@huawei.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Atish Patra &lt;atishp@rivosinc.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Conor Dooley &lt;conor.dooley@microchip.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240312012053.1178140-1-pulehui@huaweicloud.com
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmer@rivosinc.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>drivers: perf: ctr_get_width function for legacy is not defined</title>
<updated>2024-02-27T20:55:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vadim Shakirov</name>
<email>vadim.shakirov@syntacore.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-02-27T17:00:02+00:00</published>
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With parameters CONFIG_RISCV_PMU_LEGACY=y and CONFIG_RISCV_PMU_SBI=n
linux kernel crashes when you try perf record:

$ perf record ls
[ 46.749286] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000000
[ 46.750199] Oops [#1]
[ 46.750342] Modules linked in:
[ 46.750608] CPU: 0 PID: 107 Comm: perf-exec Not tainted 6.6.0 #2
[ 46.750906] Hardware name: riscv-virtio,qemu (DT)
[ 46.751184] epc : 0x0
[ 46.751430] ra : arch_perf_update_userpage+0x54/0x13e
[ 46.751680] epc : 0000000000000000 ra : ffffffff8072ee52 sp : ff2000000022b8f0
[ 46.751958] gp : ffffffff81505988 tp : ff6000000290d400 t0 : ff2000000022b9c0
[ 46.752229] t1 : 0000000000000001 t2 : 0000000000000003 s0 : ff2000000022b930
[ 46.752451] s1 : ff600000028fb000 a0 : 0000000000000000 a1 : ff600000028fb000
[ 46.752673] a2 : 0000000ae2751268 a3 : 00000000004fb708 a4 : 0000000000000004
[ 46.752895] a5 : 0000000000000000 a6 : 000000000017ffe3 a7 : 00000000000000d2
[ 46.753117] s2 : ff600000028fb000 s3 : 0000000ae2751268 s4 : 0000000000000000
[ 46.753338] s5 : ffffffff8153e290 s6 : ff600000863b9000 s7 : ff60000002961078
[ 46.753562] s8 : ff60000002961048 s9 : ff60000002961058 s10: 0000000000000001
[ 46.753783] s11: 0000000000000018 t3 : ffffffffffffffff t4 : ffffffffffffffff
[ 46.754005] t5 : ff6000000292270c t6 : ff2000000022bb30
[ 46.754179] status: 0000000200000100 badaddr: 0000000000000000 cause: 000000000000000c
[ 46.754653] Code: Unable to access instruction at 0xffffffffffffffec.
[ 46.754939] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
[ 46.755131] note: perf-exec[107] exited with irqs disabled
[ 46.755546] note: perf-exec[107] exited with preempt_count 4

This happens because in the legacy case the ctr_get_width function was not
defined, but it is used in arch_perf_update_userpage.

Also remove extra check in riscv_pmu_ctr_get_width_mask

Signed-off-by: Vadim Shakirov &lt;vadim.shakirov@syntacore.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alexandre Ghiti &lt;alexghiti@rivosinc.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Atish Patra &lt;atishp@rivosinc.com&gt;
Fixes: cc4c07c89aad ("drivers: perf: Implement perf event mmap support  in the SBI backend")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240227170002.188671-3-vadim.shakirov@syntacore.com
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmer@rivosinc.com&gt;
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With parameters CONFIG_RISCV_PMU_LEGACY=y and CONFIG_RISCV_PMU_SBI=n
linux kernel crashes when you try perf record:

$ perf record ls
[ 46.749286] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000000
[ 46.750199] Oops [#1]
[ 46.750342] Modules linked in:
[ 46.750608] CPU: 0 PID: 107 Comm: perf-exec Not tainted 6.6.0 #2
[ 46.750906] Hardware name: riscv-virtio,qemu (DT)
[ 46.751184] epc : 0x0
[ 46.751430] ra : arch_perf_update_userpage+0x54/0x13e
[ 46.751680] epc : 0000000000000000 ra : ffffffff8072ee52 sp : ff2000000022b8f0
[ 46.751958] gp : ffffffff81505988 tp : ff6000000290d400 t0 : ff2000000022b9c0
[ 46.752229] t1 : 0000000000000001 t2 : 0000000000000003 s0 : ff2000000022b930
[ 46.752451] s1 : ff600000028fb000 a0 : 0000000000000000 a1 : ff600000028fb000
[ 46.752673] a2 : 0000000ae2751268 a3 : 00000000004fb708 a4 : 0000000000000004
[ 46.752895] a5 : 0000000000000000 a6 : 000000000017ffe3 a7 : 00000000000000d2
[ 46.753117] s2 : ff600000028fb000 s3 : 0000000ae2751268 s4 : 0000000000000000
[ 46.753338] s5 : ffffffff8153e290 s6 : ff600000863b9000 s7 : ff60000002961078
[ 46.753562] s8 : ff60000002961048 s9 : ff60000002961058 s10: 0000000000000001
[ 46.753783] s11: 0000000000000018 t3 : ffffffffffffffff t4 : ffffffffffffffff
[ 46.754005] t5 : ff6000000292270c t6 : ff2000000022bb30
[ 46.754179] status: 0000000200000100 badaddr: 0000000000000000 cause: 000000000000000c
[ 46.754653] Code: Unable to access instruction at 0xffffffffffffffec.
[ 46.754939] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
[ 46.755131] note: perf-exec[107] exited with irqs disabled
[ 46.755546] note: perf-exec[107] exited with preempt_count 4

This happens because in the legacy case the ctr_get_width function was not
defined, but it is used in arch_perf_update_userpage.

Also remove extra check in riscv_pmu_ctr_get_width_mask

Signed-off-by: Vadim Shakirov &lt;vadim.shakirov@syntacore.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alexandre Ghiti &lt;alexghiti@rivosinc.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Atish Patra &lt;atishp@rivosinc.com&gt;
Fixes: cc4c07c89aad ("drivers: perf: Implement perf event mmap support  in the SBI backend")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240227170002.188671-3-vadim.shakirov@syntacore.com
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmer@rivosinc.com&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>drivers: perf: Fix panic in riscv SBI mmap support</title>
<updated>2023-10-12T18:46:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexandre Ghiti</name>
<email>alexghiti@rivosinc.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-10-06T08:20:10+00:00</published>
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The following panic can happen when mmap is called before the pmu add
callback which sets the hardware counter index: this happens for example
with the following command `perf record --no-bpf-event -n kill`.

[   99.461486] CPU: 1 PID: 1259 Comm: perf Tainted: G            E      6.6.0-rc4ubuntu-defconfig #2
[   99.461669] Hardware name: riscv-virtio,qemu (DT)
[   99.461748] epc : pmu_sbi_set_scounteren+0x42/0x44
[   99.462337]  ra : smp_call_function_many_cond+0x126/0x5b0
[   99.462369] epc : ffffffff809f9d24 ra : ffffffff800f93e0 sp : ff60000082153aa0
[   99.462407]  gp : ffffffff82395c98 tp : ff6000009a218040 t0 : ff6000009ab3a4f0
[   99.462425]  t1 : 0000000000000004 t2 : 0000000000000100 s0 : ff60000082153ab0
[   99.462459]  s1 : 0000000000000000 a0 : ff60000098869528 a1 : 0000000000000000
[   99.462473]  a2 : 000000000000001f a3 : 0000000000f00000 a4 : fffffffffffffff8
[   99.462488]  a5 : 00000000000000cc a6 : 0000000000000000 a7 : 0000000000735049
[   99.462502]  s2 : 0000000000000001 s3 : ffffffff809f9ce2 s4 : ff60000098869528
[   99.462516]  s5 : 0000000000000002 s6 : 0000000000000004 s7 : 0000000000000001
[   99.462530]  s8 : ff600003fec98bc0 s9 : ffffffff826c5890 s10: ff600003fecfcde0
[   99.462544]  s11: ff600003fec98bc0 t3 : ffffffff819e2558 t4 : ff1c000004623840
[   99.462557]  t5 : 0000000000000901 t6 : ff6000008feeb890
[   99.462570] status: 0000000200000100 badaddr: 0000000000000000 cause: 0000000000000003
[   99.462658] [&lt;ffffffff809f9d24&gt;] pmu_sbi_set_scounteren+0x42/0x44
[   99.462979] Code: 1060 4785 97bb 00d7 8fd9 9073 1067 6422 0141 8082 (9002) 0013
[   99.463335] Kernel BUG [#2]

To circumvent this, try to enable userspace access to the hardware counter
when it is selected in addition to when the event is mapped. And vice-versa
when the event is stopped/unmapped.

Fixes: cc4c07c89aad ("drivers: perf: Implement perf event mmap support in the SBI backend")
Signed-off-by: Alexandre Ghiti &lt;alexghiti@rivosinc.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231006082010.11963-1-alexghiti@rivosinc.com
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmer@rivosinc.com&gt;
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The following panic can happen when mmap is called before the pmu add
callback which sets the hardware counter index: this happens for example
with the following command `perf record --no-bpf-event -n kill`.

[   99.461486] CPU: 1 PID: 1259 Comm: perf Tainted: G            E      6.6.0-rc4ubuntu-defconfig #2
[   99.461669] Hardware name: riscv-virtio,qemu (DT)
[   99.461748] epc : pmu_sbi_set_scounteren+0x42/0x44
[   99.462337]  ra : smp_call_function_many_cond+0x126/0x5b0
[   99.462369] epc : ffffffff809f9d24 ra : ffffffff800f93e0 sp : ff60000082153aa0
[   99.462407]  gp : ffffffff82395c98 tp : ff6000009a218040 t0 : ff6000009ab3a4f0
[   99.462425]  t1 : 0000000000000004 t2 : 0000000000000100 s0 : ff60000082153ab0
[   99.462459]  s1 : 0000000000000000 a0 : ff60000098869528 a1 : 0000000000000000
[   99.462473]  a2 : 000000000000001f a3 : 0000000000f00000 a4 : fffffffffffffff8
[   99.462488]  a5 : 00000000000000cc a6 : 0000000000000000 a7 : 0000000000735049
[   99.462502]  s2 : 0000000000000001 s3 : ffffffff809f9ce2 s4 : ff60000098869528
[   99.462516]  s5 : 0000000000000002 s6 : 0000000000000004 s7 : 0000000000000001
[   99.462530]  s8 : ff600003fec98bc0 s9 : ffffffff826c5890 s10: ff600003fecfcde0
[   99.462544]  s11: ff600003fec98bc0 t3 : ffffffff819e2558 t4 : ff1c000004623840
[   99.462557]  t5 : 0000000000000901 t6 : ff6000008feeb890
[   99.462570] status: 0000000200000100 badaddr: 0000000000000000 cause: 0000000000000003
[   99.462658] [&lt;ffffffff809f9d24&gt;] pmu_sbi_set_scounteren+0x42/0x44
[   99.462979] Code: 1060 4785 97bb 00d7 8fd9 9073 1067 6422 0141 8082 (9002) 0013
[   99.463335] Kernel BUG [#2]

To circumvent this, try to enable userspace access to the hardware counter
when it is selected in addition to when the event is mapped. And vice-versa
when the event is stopped/unmapped.

Fixes: cc4c07c89aad ("drivers: perf: Implement perf event mmap support in the SBI backend")
Signed-off-by: Alexandre Ghiti &lt;alexghiti@rivosinc.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231006082010.11963-1-alexghiti@rivosinc.com
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmer@rivosinc.com&gt;
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<title>Merge tag 'riscv-for-linus-6.6-mw1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/riscv/linux</title>
<updated>2023-09-01T15:09:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-09-01T15:09:48+00:00</published>
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Pull RISC-V updates from Palmer Dabbelt:

 - Support for the new "riscv,isa-extensions" and "riscv,isa-base"
   device tree interfaces for probing extensions

 - Support for userspace access to the performance counters

 - Support for more instructions in kprobes

 - Crash kernels can be allocated above 4GiB

 - Support for KCFI

 - Support for ELFs in !MMU configurations

 - ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN has been reduced to 8

 - mmap() defaults to sv48-sized addresses, with longer addresses hidden
   behind a hint (similar to Arm and Intel)

 - Also various fixes and cleanups

* tag 'riscv-for-linus-6.6-mw1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/riscv/linux: (51 commits)
  lib/Kconfig.debug: Restrict DEBUG_INFO_SPLIT for RISC-V
  riscv: support PREEMPT_DYNAMIC with static keys
  riscv: Move create_tmp_mapping() to init sections
  riscv: Mark KASAN tmp* page tables variables as static
  riscv: mm: use bitmap_zero() API
  riscv: enable DEBUG_FORCE_FUNCTION_ALIGN_64B
  riscv: remove redundant mv instructions
  RISC-V: mm: Document mmap changes
  RISC-V: mm: Update pgtable comment documentation
  RISC-V: mm: Add tests for RISC-V mm
  RISC-V: mm: Restrict address space for sv39,sv48,sv57
  riscv: enable DMA_BOUNCE_UNALIGNED_KMALLOC for !dma_coherent
  riscv: allow kmalloc() caches aligned to the smallest value
  riscv: support the elf-fdpic binfmt loader
  binfmt_elf_fdpic: support 64-bit systems
  riscv: Allow CONFIG_CFI_CLANG to be selected
  riscv/purgatory: Disable CFI
  riscv: Add CFI error handling
  riscv: Add ftrace_stub_graph
  riscv: Add types to indirectly called assembly functions
  ...
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Pull RISC-V updates from Palmer Dabbelt:

 - Support for the new "riscv,isa-extensions" and "riscv,isa-base"
   device tree interfaces for probing extensions

 - Support for userspace access to the performance counters

 - Support for more instructions in kprobes

 - Crash kernels can be allocated above 4GiB

 - Support for KCFI

 - Support for ELFs in !MMU configurations

 - ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN has been reduced to 8

 - mmap() defaults to sv48-sized addresses, with longer addresses hidden
   behind a hint (similar to Arm and Intel)

 - Also various fixes and cleanups

* tag 'riscv-for-linus-6.6-mw1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/riscv/linux: (51 commits)
  lib/Kconfig.debug: Restrict DEBUG_INFO_SPLIT for RISC-V
  riscv: support PREEMPT_DYNAMIC with static keys
  riscv: Move create_tmp_mapping() to init sections
  riscv: Mark KASAN tmp* page tables variables as static
  riscv: mm: use bitmap_zero() API
  riscv: enable DEBUG_FORCE_FUNCTION_ALIGN_64B
  riscv: remove redundant mv instructions
  RISC-V: mm: Document mmap changes
  RISC-V: mm: Update pgtable comment documentation
  RISC-V: mm: Add tests for RISC-V mm
  RISC-V: mm: Restrict address space for sv39,sv48,sv57
  riscv: enable DMA_BOUNCE_UNALIGNED_KMALLOC for !dma_coherent
  riscv: allow kmalloc() caches aligned to the smallest value
  riscv: support the elf-fdpic binfmt loader
  binfmt_elf_fdpic: support 64-bit systems
  riscv: Allow CONFIG_CFI_CLANG to be selected
  riscv/purgatory: Disable CFI
  riscv: Add CFI error handling
  riscv: Add ftrace_stub_graph
  riscv: Add types to indirectly called assembly functions
  ...
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<entry>
<title>drivers: perf: Implement perf event mmap support in the SBI backend</title>
<updated>2023-08-16T14:28:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexandre Ghiti</name>
<email>alexghiti@rivosinc.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-08-02T08:03:25+00:00</published>
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We used to unconditionnally expose the cycle and instret csrs to
userspace, which gives rise to security concerns.

So now we only allow access to hw counters from userspace through the perf
framework which will handle context switches, per-task events...etc. A
sysctl allows to revert the behaviour to the legacy mode so that userspace
applications which are not ready for this change do not break.

But the default value is to allow userspace only through perf: this will
break userspace applications which rely on direct access to rdcycle.
This choice was made for security reasons [1][2]: most of the applications
which use rdcycle can instead use rdtime to count the elapsed time.

[1] https://groups.google.com/a/groups.riscv.org/g/sw-dev/c/REWcwYnzsKE?pli=1
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-c4C_L2PRQ&amp;ab_channel=IEEESymposiumonSecurityandPrivacy

Signed-off-by: Alexandre Ghiti &lt;alexghiti@rivosinc.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrew Jones &lt;ajones@ventanamicro.com&gt;
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We used to unconditionnally expose the cycle and instret csrs to
userspace, which gives rise to security concerns.

So now we only allow access to hw counters from userspace through the perf
framework which will handle context switches, per-task events...etc. A
sysctl allows to revert the behaviour to the legacy mode so that userspace
applications which are not ready for this change do not break.

But the default value is to allow userspace only through perf: this will
break userspace applications which rely on direct access to rdcycle.
This choice was made for security reasons [1][2]: most of the applications
which use rdcycle can instead use rdtime to count the elapsed time.

[1] https://groups.google.com/a/groups.riscv.org/g/sw-dev/c/REWcwYnzsKE?pli=1
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-c4C_L2PRQ&amp;ab_channel=IEEESymposiumonSecurityandPrivacy

Signed-off-by: Alexandre Ghiti &lt;alexghiti@rivosinc.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrew Jones &lt;ajones@ventanamicro.com&gt;
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