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<title>linux-toradex.git/include/kvm, branch v6.17-rc2</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'kvmarm-6.17' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kvmarm/kvmarm into HEAD</title>
<updated>2025-07-29T16:27:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paolo Bonzini</name>
<email>pbonzini@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-07-29T16:27:40+00:00</published>
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KVM/arm64 changes for 6.17, round #1

 - Host driver for GICv5, the next generation interrupt controller for
   arm64, including support for interrupt routing, MSIs, interrupt
   translation and wired interrupts.

 - Use FEAT_GCIE_LEGACY on GICv5 systems to virtualize GICv3 VMs on
   GICv5 hardware, leveraging the legacy VGIC interface.

 - Userspace control of the 'nASSGIcap' GICv3 feature, allowing
   userspace to disable support for SGIs w/o an active state on hardware
   that previously advertised it unconditionally.

 - Map supporting endpoints with cacheable memory attributes on systems
   with FEAT_S2FWB and DIC where KVM no longer needs to perform cache
   maintenance on the address range.

 - Nested support for FEAT_RAS and FEAT_DoubleFault2, allowing the guest
   hypervisor to inject external aborts into an L2 VM and take traps of
   masked external aborts to the hypervisor.

 - Convert more system register sanitization to the config-driven
   implementation.

 - Fixes to the visibility of EL2 registers, namely making VGICv3 system
   registers accessible through the VGIC device instead of the ONE_REG
   vCPU ioctls.

 - Various cleanups and minor fixes.
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KVM/arm64 changes for 6.17, round #1

 - Host driver for GICv5, the next generation interrupt controller for
   arm64, including support for interrupt routing, MSIs, interrupt
   translation and wired interrupts.

 - Use FEAT_GCIE_LEGACY on GICv5 systems to virtualize GICv3 VMs on
   GICv5 hardware, leveraging the legacy VGIC interface.

 - Userspace control of the 'nASSGIcap' GICv3 feature, allowing
   userspace to disable support for SGIs w/o an active state on hardware
   that previously advertised it unconditionally.

 - Map supporting endpoints with cacheable memory attributes on systems
   with FEAT_S2FWB and DIC where KVM no longer needs to perform cache
   maintenance on the address range.

 - Nested support for FEAT_RAS and FEAT_DoubleFault2, allowing the guest
   hypervisor to inject external aborts into an L2 VM and take traps of
   masked external aborts to the hypervisor.

 - Convert more system register sanitization to the config-driven
   implementation.

 - Fixes to the visibility of EL2 registers, namely making VGICv3 system
   registers accessible through the VGIC device instead of the ONE_REG
   vCPU ioctls.

 - Various cleanups and minor fixes.
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'kvm-arm64/vgic-v4-ctl' into kvmarm/next</title>
<updated>2025-07-28T15:11:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Oliver Upton</name>
<email>oliver.upton@linux.dev</email>
</author>
<published>2025-07-28T15:11:34+00:00</published>
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* kvm-arm64/vgic-v4-ctl:
  : Userspace control of nASSGIcap, courtesy of Raghavendra Rao Ananta
  :
  : Allow userspace to decide if support for SGIs without an active state is
  : advertised to the guest, allowing VMs from GICv3-only hardware to be
  : migrated to to GICv4.1 capable machines.
  Documentation: KVM: arm64: Describe VGICv3 registers writable pre-init
  KVM: arm64: selftests: Add test for nASSGIcap attribute
  KVM: arm64: vgic-v3: Allow userspace to write GICD_TYPER2.nASSGIcap
  KVM: arm64: vgic-v3: Allow access to GICD_IIDR prior to initialization
  KVM: arm64: vgic-v3: Consolidate MAINT_IRQ handling
  KVM: arm64: Disambiguate support for vSGIs v. vLPIs

Signed-off-by: Oliver Upton &lt;oliver.upton@linux.dev&gt;
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* kvm-arm64/vgic-v4-ctl:
  : Userspace control of nASSGIcap, courtesy of Raghavendra Rao Ananta
  :
  : Allow userspace to decide if support for SGIs without an active state is
  : advertised to the guest, allowing VMs from GICv3-only hardware to be
  : migrated to to GICv4.1 capable machines.
  Documentation: KVM: arm64: Describe VGICv3 registers writable pre-init
  KVM: arm64: selftests: Add test for nASSGIcap attribute
  KVM: arm64: vgic-v3: Allow userspace to write GICD_TYPER2.nASSGIcap
  KVM: arm64: vgic-v3: Allow access to GICD_IIDR prior to initialization
  KVM: arm64: vgic-v3: Consolidate MAINT_IRQ handling
  KVM: arm64: Disambiguate support for vSGIs v. vLPIs

Signed-off-by: Oliver Upton &lt;oliver.upton@linux.dev&gt;
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<entry>
<title>KVM: arm64: vgic-v3: Allow userspace to write GICD_TYPER2.nASSGIcap</title>
<updated>2025-07-26T15:45:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Raghavendra Rao Ananta</name>
<email>rananta@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-07-24T06:28:03+00:00</published>
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KVM unconditionally advertises GICD_TYPER2.nASSGIcap (which internally
implies vSGIs) on GICv4.1 systems. Allow userspace to change whether a
VM supports the feature. Only allow changes prior to VGIC initialization
as at that point vPEs need to be allocated for the VM.

For convenience, bundle support for vLPIs and vSGIs behind this feature,
allowing userspace to control vPE allocation for VMs in environments
that may be constrained on vPE IDs.

Signed-off-by: Raghavendra Rao Ananta &lt;rananta@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Eric Auger &lt;eric.auger@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;maz@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250724062805.2658919-5-oliver.upton@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Oliver Upton &lt;oliver.upton@linux.dev&gt;
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KVM unconditionally advertises GICD_TYPER2.nASSGIcap (which internally
implies vSGIs) on GICv4.1 systems. Allow userspace to change whether a
VM supports the feature. Only allow changes prior to VGIC initialization
as at that point vPEs need to be allocated for the VM.

For convenience, bundle support for vLPIs and vSGIs behind this feature,
allowing userspace to control vPE allocation for VMs in environments
that may be constrained on vPE IDs.

Signed-off-by: Raghavendra Rao Ananta &lt;rananta@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Eric Auger &lt;eric.auger@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;maz@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250724062805.2658919-5-oliver.upton@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Oliver Upton &lt;oliver.upton@linux.dev&gt;
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<entry>
<title>KVM: arm64: gic-v5: Support GICv3 compat</title>
<updated>2025-07-08T21:41:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sascha Bischoff</name>
<email>Sascha.Bischoff@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-06-27T10:09:02+00:00</published>
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Add support for GICv3 compat mode (FEAT_GCIE_LEGACY) which allows a
GICv5 host to run GICv3-based VMs. This change enables the
VHE/nVHE/hVHE/protected modes, but does not support nested
virtualization.

A lazy-disable approach is taken for compat mode; it is enabled on the
vgic_v3_load path but not disabled on the vgic_v3_put path. A
non-GICv3 VM, i.e., one based on GICv5, is responsible for disabling
compat mode on the corresponding vgic_v5_load path. Currently, GICv5
is not supported, and hence compat mode is not disabled again once it
is enabled, and this function is intentionally omitted from the code.

Co-authored-by: Timothy Hayes &lt;timothy.hayes@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Timothy Hayes &lt;timothy.hayes@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sascha Bischoff &lt;sascha.bischoff@arm.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250627100847.1022515-5-sascha.bischoff@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Oliver Upton &lt;oliver.upton@linux.dev&gt;
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Add support for GICv3 compat mode (FEAT_GCIE_LEGACY) which allows a
GICv5 host to run GICv3-based VMs. This change enables the
VHE/nVHE/hVHE/protected modes, but does not support nested
virtualization.

A lazy-disable approach is taken for compat mode; it is enabled on the
vgic_v3_load path but not disabled on the vgic_v3_put path. A
non-GICv3 VM, i.e., one based on GICv5, is responsible for disabling
compat mode on the corresponding vgic_v5_load path. Currently, GICv5
is not supported, and hence compat mode is not disabled again once it
is enabled, and this function is intentionally omitted from the code.

Co-authored-by: Timothy Hayes &lt;timothy.hayes@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Timothy Hayes &lt;timothy.hayes@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sascha Bischoff &lt;sascha.bischoff@arm.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250627100847.1022515-5-sascha.bischoff@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Oliver Upton &lt;oliver.upton@linux.dev&gt;
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<entry>
<title>KVM: Don't WARN if updating IRQ bypass route fails</title>
<updated>2025-06-23T16:50:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sean Christopherson</name>
<email>seanjc@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-06-11T22:45:35+00:00</published>
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Don't bother WARNing if updating an IRTE route fails now that vendor code
provides much more precise WARNs.  The generic WARN doesn't provide enough
information to actually debug the problem, and has obviously done nothing
to surface the myriad bugs in KVM x86's implementation.

Drop all of the associated return code plumbing that existed just so that
common KVM could WARN.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250611224604.313496-34-seanjc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson &lt;seanjc@google.com&gt;
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Don't bother WARNing if updating an IRTE route fails now that vendor code
provides much more precise WARNs.  The generic WARN doesn't provide enough
information to actually debug the problem, and has obviously done nothing
to surface the myriad bugs in KVM x86's implementation.

Drop all of the associated return code plumbing that existed just so that
common KVM could WARN.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250611224604.313496-34-seanjc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson &lt;seanjc@google.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>KVM: arm64: Resolve vLPI by host IRQ in vgic_v4_unset_forwarding()</title>
<updated>2025-05-30T08:11:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Oliver Upton</name>
<email>oliver.upton@linux.dev</email>
</author>
<published>2025-05-23T19:47:20+00:00</published>
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The virtual mapping and "GSI" routing of a particular vLPI is subject to
change in response to the guest / userspace. This can be pretty annoying
to deal with when KVM needs to track the physical state that's managed
for vLPI direct injection.

Make vgic_v4_unset_forwarding() resilient by using the host IRQ to
resolve the vgic IRQ. Since this uses the LPI xarray directly, finding
the ITS by doorbell address + grabbing it's its_lock is no longer
necessary. Note that matching the right ITS / ITE is already handled in
vgic_v4_set_forwarding(), and unless there's a bug in KVM's VGIC ITS
emulation the virtual mapping that should remain stable for the lifetime
of the vLPI mapping.

Tested-by: Sweet Tea Dorminy &lt;sweettea-kernel@dorminy.me&gt;
Signed-off-by: Oliver Upton &lt;oliver.upton@linux.dev&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250523194722.4066715-4-oliver.upton@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;maz@kernel.org&gt;
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The virtual mapping and "GSI" routing of a particular vLPI is subject to
change in response to the guest / userspace. This can be pretty annoying
to deal with when KVM needs to track the physical state that's managed
for vLPI direct injection.

Make vgic_v4_unset_forwarding() resilient by using the host IRQ to
resolve the vgic IRQ. Since this uses the LPI xarray directly, finding
the ITS by doorbell address + grabbing it's its_lock is no longer
necessary. Note that matching the right ITS / ITE is already handled in
vgic_v4_set_forwarding(), and unless there's a bug in KVM's VGIC ITS
emulation the virtual mapping that should remain stable for the lifetime
of the vLPI mapping.

Tested-by: Sweet Tea Dorminy &lt;sweettea-kernel@dorminy.me&gt;
Signed-off-by: Oliver Upton &lt;oliver.upton@linux.dev&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250523194722.4066715-4-oliver.upton@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;maz@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'kvm-arm64/pmu-fixes' into kvmarm/next</title>
<updated>2025-03-19T21:54:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Oliver Upton</name>
<email>oliver.upton@linux.dev</email>
</author>
<published>2025-03-19T21:54:52+00:00</published>
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* kvm-arm64/pmu-fixes:
  : vPMU fixes for 6.15 courtesy of Akihiko Odaki
  :
  : Various fixes to KVM's vPMU implementation, notably ensuring
  : userspace-directed changes to the PMCs are reflected in the backing perf
  : events.
  KVM: arm64: PMU: Reload when resetting
  KVM: arm64: PMU: Reload when user modifies registers
  KVM: arm64: PMU: Fix SET_ONE_REG for vPMC regs
  KVM: arm64: PMU: Assume PMU presence in pmu-emul.c
  KVM: arm64: PMU: Set raw values from user to PM{C,I}NTEN{SET,CLR}, PMOVS{SET,CLR}

Signed-off-by: Oliver Upton &lt;oliver.upton@linux.dev&gt;
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* kvm-arm64/pmu-fixes:
  : vPMU fixes for 6.15 courtesy of Akihiko Odaki
  :
  : Various fixes to KVM's vPMU implementation, notably ensuring
  : userspace-directed changes to the PMCs are reflected in the backing perf
  : events.
  KVM: arm64: PMU: Reload when resetting
  KVM: arm64: PMU: Reload when user modifies registers
  KVM: arm64: PMU: Fix SET_ONE_REG for vPMC regs
  KVM: arm64: PMU: Assume PMU presence in pmu-emul.c
  KVM: arm64: PMU: Set raw values from user to PM{C,I}NTEN{SET,CLR}, PMOVS{SET,CLR}

Signed-off-by: Oliver Upton &lt;oliver.upton@linux.dev&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'kvm-arm64/pmuv3-asahi' into kvmarm/next</title>
<updated>2025-03-19T21:54:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Oliver Upton</name>
<email>oliver.upton@linux.dev</email>
</author>
<published>2025-03-19T21:53:54+00:00</published>
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* kvm-arm64/pmuv3-asahi:
  : Support PMUv3 for KVM guests on Apple silicon
  :
  : Take advantage of some IMPLEMENTATION DEFINED traps available on Apple
  : parts to trap-and-emulate the PMUv3 registers on behalf of a KVM guest.
  : Constrain the vPMU to a cycle counter and single event counter, as the
  : Apple PMU has events that cannot be counted on every counter.
  :
  : There is a small new interface between the ARM PMU driver and KVM, where
  : the PMU driver owns the PMUv3 -&gt; hardware event mappings.
  arm64: Enable IMP DEF PMUv3 traps on Apple M*
  KVM: arm64: Provide 1 event counter on IMPDEF hardware
  drivers/perf: apple_m1: Provide helper for mapping PMUv3 events
  KVM: arm64: Remap PMUv3 events onto hardware
  KVM: arm64: Advertise PMUv3 if IMPDEF traps are present
  KVM: arm64: Compute synthetic sysreg ESR for Apple PMUv3 traps
  KVM: arm64: Move PMUVer filtering into KVM code
  KVM: arm64: Use guard() to cleanup usage of arm_pmus_lock
  KVM: arm64: Drop kvm_arm_pmu_available static key
  KVM: arm64: Use a cpucap to determine if system supports FEAT_PMUv3
  KVM: arm64: Always support SW_INCR PMU event
  KVM: arm64: Compute PMCEID from arm_pmu's event bitmaps
  drivers/perf: apple_m1: Support host/guest event filtering
  drivers/perf: apple_m1: Refactor event select/filter configuration

Signed-off-by: Oliver Upton &lt;oliver.upton@linux.dev&gt;
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* kvm-arm64/pmuv3-asahi:
  : Support PMUv3 for KVM guests on Apple silicon
  :
  : Take advantage of some IMPLEMENTATION DEFINED traps available on Apple
  : parts to trap-and-emulate the PMUv3 registers on behalf of a KVM guest.
  : Constrain the vPMU to a cycle counter and single event counter, as the
  : Apple PMU has events that cannot be counted on every counter.
  :
  : There is a small new interface between the ARM PMU driver and KVM, where
  : the PMU driver owns the PMUv3 -&gt; hardware event mappings.
  arm64: Enable IMP DEF PMUv3 traps on Apple M*
  KVM: arm64: Provide 1 event counter on IMPDEF hardware
  drivers/perf: apple_m1: Provide helper for mapping PMUv3 events
  KVM: arm64: Remap PMUv3 events onto hardware
  KVM: arm64: Advertise PMUv3 if IMPDEF traps are present
  KVM: arm64: Compute synthetic sysreg ESR for Apple PMUv3 traps
  KVM: arm64: Move PMUVer filtering into KVM code
  KVM: arm64: Use guard() to cleanup usage of arm_pmus_lock
  KVM: arm64: Drop kvm_arm_pmu_available static key
  KVM: arm64: Use a cpucap to determine if system supports FEAT_PMUv3
  KVM: arm64: Always support SW_INCR PMU event
  KVM: arm64: Compute PMCEID from arm_pmu's event bitmaps
  drivers/perf: apple_m1: Support host/guest event filtering
  drivers/perf: apple_m1: Refactor event select/filter configuration

Signed-off-by: Oliver Upton &lt;oliver.upton@linux.dev&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>KVM: arm64: PMU: Reload when resetting</title>
<updated>2025-03-17T17:45:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Akihiko Odaki</name>
<email>akihiko.odaki@daynix.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-03-15T09:12:14+00:00</published>
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Replace kvm_pmu_vcpu_reset() with the generic PMU reloading mechanism to
ensure the consistency with system registers and to reduce code size.

Signed-off-by: Akihiko Odaki &lt;akihiko.odaki@daynix.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;maz@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250315-pmc-v5-5-ecee87dab216@daynix.com
Signed-off-by: Oliver Upton &lt;oliver.upton@linux.dev&gt;
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Replace kvm_pmu_vcpu_reset() with the generic PMU reloading mechanism to
ensure the consistency with system registers and to reduce code size.

Signed-off-by: Akihiko Odaki &lt;akihiko.odaki@daynix.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;maz@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250315-pmc-v5-5-ecee87dab216@daynix.com
Signed-off-by: Oliver Upton &lt;oliver.upton@linux.dev&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>KVM: arm64: PMU: Fix SET_ONE_REG for vPMC regs</title>
<updated>2025-03-17T17:45:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Akihiko Odaki</name>
<email>akihiko.odaki@daynix.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-03-15T09:12:12+00:00</published>
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Reload the perf event when setting the vPMU counter (vPMC) registers
(PMCCNTR_EL0 and PMEVCNTR&lt;n&gt;_EL0). This is a change corresponding to
commit 9228b26194d1 ("KVM: arm64: PMU: Fix GET_ONE_REG
for vPMC regs to return the current value") but for SET_ONE_REG.

Values of vPMC registers are saved in sysreg files on certain occasions.
These saved values don't represent the current values of the vPMC
registers if the perf events for the vPMCs count events after the save.
The current values of those registers are the sum of the sysreg file
value and the current perf event counter value.  But, when userspace
writes those registers (using KVM_SET_ONE_REG), KVM only updates the
sysreg file value and leaves the current perf event counter value as is.

It is also important to keep the correct state even if userspace writes
them after first run, specifically when debugging Windows on QEMU with
GDB; QEMU tries to write back all visible registers when resuming the VM
execution with GDB, corrupting the PMU state. Windows always uses the
PMU so this can cause adverse effects on that particular OS.

Fix this by releasing the current perf event and trigger recreating one
with KVM_REQ_RELOAD_PMU.

Fixes: 051ff581ce70 ("arm64: KVM: Add access handler for event counter register")
Signed-off-by: Akihiko Odaki &lt;akihiko.odaki@daynix.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;maz@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250315-pmc-v5-3-ecee87dab216@daynix.com
Signed-off-by: Oliver Upton &lt;oliver.upton@linux.dev&gt;
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Reload the perf event when setting the vPMU counter (vPMC) registers
(PMCCNTR_EL0 and PMEVCNTR&lt;n&gt;_EL0). This is a change corresponding to
commit 9228b26194d1 ("KVM: arm64: PMU: Fix GET_ONE_REG
for vPMC regs to return the current value") but for SET_ONE_REG.

Values of vPMC registers are saved in sysreg files on certain occasions.
These saved values don't represent the current values of the vPMC
registers if the perf events for the vPMCs count events after the save.
The current values of those registers are the sum of the sysreg file
value and the current perf event counter value.  But, when userspace
writes those registers (using KVM_SET_ONE_REG), KVM only updates the
sysreg file value and leaves the current perf event counter value as is.

It is also important to keep the correct state even if userspace writes
them after first run, specifically when debugging Windows on QEMU with
GDB; QEMU tries to write back all visible registers when resuming the VM
execution with GDB, corrupting the PMU state. Windows always uses the
PMU so this can cause adverse effects on that particular OS.

Fix this by releasing the current perf event and trigger recreating one
with KVM_REQ_RELOAD_PMU.

Fixes: 051ff581ce70 ("arm64: KVM: Add access handler for event counter register")
Signed-off-by: Akihiko Odaki &lt;akihiko.odaki@daynix.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;maz@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250315-pmc-v5-3-ecee87dab216@daynix.com
Signed-off-by: Oliver Upton &lt;oliver.upton@linux.dev&gt;
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