From: Zide Chen <zide.chen@intel.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
Zhao Liu <zhao1.liu@intel.com>, Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>,
Fabiano Rosas <farosas@suse.de>,
Sandipan Das <sandipan.das@amd.com>
Cc: Xiaoyao Li <xiaoyao.li@intel.com>,
Dongli Zhang <dongli.zhang@oracle.com>,
Dapeng Mi <dapeng1.mi@linux.intel.com>,
Zide Chen <zide.chen@intel.com>
Subject: [PATCH v4 1/6] target/i386: Don't save/restore PERF_GLOBAL_OVF_CTRL MSRs
Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2026 19:55:41 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260604025546.19378-2-zide.chen@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260604025546.19378-1-zide.chen@intel.com>
From: Dapeng Mi <dapeng1.mi@linux.intel.com>
MSR_CORE_PERF_GLOBAL_OVF_CTRL and MSR_AMD64_PERF_CNTR_GLOBAL_STATUS_CLR
are write-only MSRs and reads always return zero.
Saving and restoring these MSRs is therefore unnecessary. Replace
VMSTATE_UINT64 with VMSTATE_UNUSED in the VMStateDescription to ignore
env.msr_global_ovf_ctrl during migration. This avoids the need to bump
version_id and does not introduce any migration incompatibility.
Cc: Dongli Zhang <dongli.zhang@oracle.com>
Cc: Sandipan Das <sandipan.das@amd.com>
Fixes: e587632c228e ("target/i386/kvm: support perfmon-v2 for reset")
Signed-off-by: Dapeng Mi <dapeng1.mi@linux.intel.com>
Co-developed-by: Zide Chen <zide.chen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Zide Chen <zide.chen@intel.com>
---
V3:
- Remove MSR_AMD64_PERF_CNTR_GLOBAL_STATUS_CLR as well.
---
target/i386/cpu.h | 3 ---
target/i386/kvm/kvm.c | 10 ----------
target/i386/machine.c | 4 ++--
3 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
diff --git a/target/i386/cpu.h b/target/i386/cpu.h
index 6b500737c3be..ff44487d0b6d 100644
--- a/target/i386/cpu.h
+++ b/target/i386/cpu.h
@@ -507,11 +507,9 @@ typedef enum X86Seg {
#define MSR_CORE_PERF_FIXED_CTR_CTRL 0x38d
#define MSR_CORE_PERF_GLOBAL_STATUS 0x38e
#define MSR_CORE_PERF_GLOBAL_CTRL 0x38f
-#define MSR_CORE_PERF_GLOBAL_OVF_CTRL 0x390
#define MSR_AMD64_PERF_CNTR_GLOBAL_STATUS 0xc0000300
#define MSR_AMD64_PERF_CNTR_GLOBAL_CTL 0xc0000301
-#define MSR_AMD64_PERF_CNTR_GLOBAL_STATUS_CLR 0xc0000302
#define MSR_K7_EVNTSEL0 0xc0010000
#define MSR_K7_PERFCTR0 0xc0010004
@@ -2104,7 +2102,6 @@ typedef struct CPUArchState {
uint64_t msr_fixed_ctr_ctrl;
uint64_t msr_global_ctrl;
uint64_t msr_global_status;
- uint64_t msr_global_ovf_ctrl;
uint64_t msr_fixed_counters[MAX_FIXED_COUNTERS];
uint64_t msr_gp_counters[MAX_GP_COUNTERS];
uint64_t msr_gp_evtsel[MAX_GP_COUNTERS];
diff --git a/target/i386/kvm/kvm.c b/target/i386/kvm/kvm.c
index a29f757c168a..1ac1803e8a2e 100644
--- a/target/i386/kvm/kvm.c
+++ b/target/i386/kvm/kvm.c
@@ -4290,8 +4290,6 @@ static int kvm_put_msrs(X86CPU *cpu, KvmPutState level)
if (pmu_version > 1) {
kvm_msr_entry_add(cpu, MSR_CORE_PERF_GLOBAL_STATUS,
env->msr_global_status);
- kvm_msr_entry_add(cpu, MSR_CORE_PERF_GLOBAL_OVF_CTRL,
- env->msr_global_ovf_ctrl);
/* Now start the PMU. */
kvm_msr_entry_add(cpu, MSR_CORE_PERF_FIXED_CTR_CTRL,
@@ -4335,8 +4333,6 @@ static int kvm_put_msrs(X86CPU *cpu, KvmPutState level)
if (pmu_version > 1) {
kvm_msr_entry_add(cpu, MSR_AMD64_PERF_CNTR_GLOBAL_STATUS,
env->msr_global_status);
- kvm_msr_entry_add(cpu, MSR_AMD64_PERF_CNTR_GLOBAL_STATUS_CLR,
- env->msr_global_ovf_ctrl);
kvm_msr_entry_add(cpu, MSR_AMD64_PERF_CNTR_GLOBAL_CTL,
env->msr_global_ctrl);
}
@@ -4852,7 +4848,6 @@ static int kvm_get_msrs(X86CPU *cpu)
kvm_msr_entry_add(cpu, MSR_CORE_PERF_FIXED_CTR_CTRL, 0);
kvm_msr_entry_add(cpu, MSR_CORE_PERF_GLOBAL_CTRL, 0);
kvm_msr_entry_add(cpu, MSR_CORE_PERF_GLOBAL_STATUS, 0);
- kvm_msr_entry_add(cpu, MSR_CORE_PERF_GLOBAL_OVF_CTRL, 0);
}
for (i = 0; i < num_pmu_fixed_counters; i++) {
kvm_msr_entry_add(cpu, MSR_CORE_PERF_FIXED_CTR0 + i, 0);
@@ -4895,7 +4890,6 @@ static int kvm_get_msrs(X86CPU *cpu)
if (pmu_version > 1) {
kvm_msr_entry_add(cpu, MSR_AMD64_PERF_CNTR_GLOBAL_CTL, 0);
kvm_msr_entry_add(cpu, MSR_AMD64_PERF_CNTR_GLOBAL_STATUS, 0);
- kvm_msr_entry_add(cpu, MSR_AMD64_PERF_CNTR_GLOBAL_STATUS_CLR, 0);
}
}
@@ -5218,10 +5212,6 @@ static int kvm_get_msrs(X86CPU *cpu)
case MSR_AMD64_PERF_CNTR_GLOBAL_STATUS:
env->msr_global_status = msrs[i].data;
break;
- case MSR_CORE_PERF_GLOBAL_OVF_CTRL:
- case MSR_AMD64_PERF_CNTR_GLOBAL_STATUS_CLR:
- env->msr_global_ovf_ctrl = msrs[i].data;
- break;
case MSR_CORE_PERF_FIXED_CTR0 ... MSR_CORE_PERF_FIXED_CTR0 + MAX_FIXED_COUNTERS - 1:
env->msr_fixed_counters[index - MSR_CORE_PERF_FIXED_CTR0] = msrs[i].data;
break;
diff --git a/target/i386/machine.c b/target/i386/machine.c
index 48a2a4b31907..e0a5a5da6f5a 100644
--- a/target/i386/machine.c
+++ b/target/i386/machine.c
@@ -666,7 +666,7 @@ static bool pmu_enable_needed(void *opaque)
int i;
if (env->msr_fixed_ctr_ctrl || env->msr_global_ctrl ||
- env->msr_global_status || env->msr_global_ovf_ctrl) {
+ env->msr_global_status) {
return true;
}
for (i = 0; i < MAX_FIXED_COUNTERS; i++) {
@@ -692,7 +692,7 @@ static const VMStateDescription vmstate_msr_architectural_pmu = {
VMSTATE_UINT64(env.msr_fixed_ctr_ctrl, X86CPU),
VMSTATE_UINT64(env.msr_global_ctrl, X86CPU),
VMSTATE_UINT64(env.msr_global_status, X86CPU),
- VMSTATE_UINT64(env.msr_global_ovf_ctrl, X86CPU),
+ VMSTATE_UNUSED(sizeof(uint64_t)),
VMSTATE_UINT64_ARRAY(env.msr_fixed_counters, X86CPU, MAX_FIXED_COUNTERS),
VMSTATE_UINT64_ARRAY(env.msr_gp_counters, X86CPU, MAX_GP_COUNTERS),
VMSTATE_UINT64_ARRAY(env.msr_gp_evtsel, X86CPU, MAX_GP_COUNTERS),
--
2.54.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-06-04 3:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-06-04 2:55 [PATCH v4 0/6] target/i386: Misc PMU fixes and enabling Zide Chen
2026-06-04 2:55 ` Zide Chen [this message]
2026-06-05 14:18 ` [PATCH v4 1/6] target/i386: Don't save/restore PERF_GLOBAL_OVF_CTRL MSRs Fabiano Rosas
2026-06-05 14:47 ` Sandipan Das
2026-06-04 2:55 ` [PATCH v4 2/6] target/i386: Gate enable_pmu on kvm_enabled() Zide Chen
2026-06-05 14:48 ` Sandipan Das
2026-06-04 2:55 ` [PATCH v4 3/6] target/i386: Adjust maximum number of PMU counters Zide Chen
2026-06-04 2:55 ` [PATCH v4 4/6] target/i386: Support full-width writes for perf counters Zide Chen
2026-06-04 2:55 ` [PATCH v4 5/6] target/i386: Increase MSR_BUF_SIZE and split KVM_[GET/SET]_MSRS calls Zide Chen
2026-06-04 2:55 ` [PATCH v4 6/6] target/i386: Add Topdown metrics feature support Zide Chen
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