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-rw-r--r--Documentation/virtual/kvm/devices/vcpu.txt4
-rw-r--r--virt/kvm/arm/pmu.c8
2 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/devices/vcpu.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/devices/vcpu.txt
index c041658..02f5068 100644
--- a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/devices/vcpu.txt
+++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/devices/vcpu.txt
@@ -30,4 +30,6 @@ Returns: -ENODEV: PMUv3 not supported
attribute
-EBUSY: PMUv3 already initialized
-Request the initialization of the PMUv3.
+Request the initialization of the PMUv3. This must be done after creating the
+in-kernel irqchip. Creating a PMU with a userspace irqchip is currently not
+supported.
diff --git a/virt/kvm/arm/pmu.c b/virt/kvm/arm/pmu.c
index a027569..6e9c40e 100644
--- a/virt/kvm/arm/pmu.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/arm/pmu.c
@@ -423,6 +423,14 @@ static int kvm_arm_pmu_v3_init(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
if (!kvm_arm_support_pmu_v3())
return -ENODEV;
+ /*
+ * We currently require an in-kernel VGIC to use the PMU emulation,
+ * because we do not support forwarding PMU overflow interrupts to
+ * userspace yet.
+ */
+ if (!irqchip_in_kernel(vcpu->kvm) || !vgic_initialized(vcpu->kvm))
+ return -ENODEV;
+
if (!test_bit(KVM_ARM_VCPU_PMU_V3, vcpu->arch.features) ||
!kvm_arm_pmu_irq_initialized(vcpu))
return -ENXIO;
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