Re: [PATCH v6] x86/VPMU: implement ipc and arch filter flags

[Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>]

On 01/08/2016 05:15 AM, Brendan Gregg wrote:
> This introduces a way to have a restricted VPMU, by specifying one of two
> predefined groups of PMCs to make available. For secure environments, this
> allows the VPMU to be used without needing to enable all PMCs.
>
> Signed-off-by: Brendan Gregg <bgregg@netflix.com>
> Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>

This still stands with one correction below

> @@ -656,12 +661,51 @@ static int core2_vpmu_do_wrmsr(unsigned int msr, uint64_t msr_content,
>           tmp = msr - MSR_P6_EVNTSEL(0);
>           if ( tmp >= 0 && tmp < arch_pmc_cnt )
>           {
> +            bool_t blocked = 0;
> +            uint64_t umaskevent;
>               struct xen_pmu_cntr_pair *xen_pmu_cntr_pair =
>                   vpmu_reg_pointer(core2_vpmu_cxt, arch_counters);
>   
>               if ( msr_content & ARCH_CTRL_MASK )
>                   return -EINVAL;
>   
> +            /* PMC filters */
> +            umaskevent = msr_content & MSR_IA32_CMT_EVTSEL_UE_MASK;
> +            if ( vpmu_features & (XENPMU_FEATURE_IPC_ONLY ||
> +                                  XENPMU_FEATURE_ARCH_ONLY) )
> +            {
>


Typo: Should be '|', not '||'.


-boris