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* [PATCH 0/3] powerpc/perf: Fix vpa-pmu driver to report correct
@ 2026-08-11 14:03 Gautam Menghani
  2026-08-11 14:03 ` [PATCH 1/3] KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Maintain aggregate context switch values for vCPUs Gautam Menghani
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From: Gautam Menghani @ 2026-08-11 14:03 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: maddy, atrajeev, npiggin, mpe, chleroy
  Cc: Gautam Menghani, linuxppc-dev, kvm, linux-kernel

The vpa-pmu driver can sometimes report incorrect context switch latency
numbers:

$ perf stat -e vpa_pmu/l1_to_l2_lat/  --tid=2061  -I 1000
           time             counts unit events
     1.001022517 18,446,744,073,708,177,408      vpa_pmu/l1_to_l2_lat/
     2.002120674            345,092      vpa_pmu/l1_to_l2_lat/
     3.003171582            406,342      vpa_pmu/l1_to_l2_lat/
     4.004234838            340,836      vpa_pmu/l1_to_l2_lat/

These invalid numbers are observed because the vpa-pmu driver does not
handle the following scenarios:

1. The vCPU process gets rescheduled to a different host cpu.

2. The vCPU process is not running, and vpa_pmu_read() is called to read
counter values.

Fix the above cases by maintaining aggregate counter values inside the
vcpu->arch struct and using them to report data.

Gautam Menghani (3):
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Maintain aggregate context switch values for
    vcpus
  powerpc/perf: Use the aggregate context switch values from vcpu struct
  powerpc/perf: Update prev_count of event to get accurate values

 arch/powerpc/include/asm/kvm_book3s_64.h |  6 --
 arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv.c             | 69 +----------------------
 arch/powerpc/perf/vpa-pmu.c              | 70 ++++++++++++------------
 3 files changed, 39 insertions(+), 106 deletions(-)

-- 
2.54.0



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