Directly Accessing Cycle Counter From Guest VM

Hello!

We have implemented our university research project on Armv8 development board, and we would now like to run some performance testings.

Would it be possible to directly access processor cycle counter register (PMCCNTR_EL0) from a KVM-based guest virtual machine?

The current access does read the register but by trapping to an EL2 hypervisor.
We would like to access the register multiple times during the test without adding extra overheads, and we would also like to accurately measure world-switch costs.

Any comments would be very appreciated! :)

Thanks!