From: "Liuxiangdong (Aven, Cloud Infrastructure Service Product Dept.)" <liuxiangdong5@huawei.com>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: <like.xu@linux.intel.com>,
"Fangyi (Eric)" <eric.fangyi@huawei.com>,
Xiexiangyou <xiexiangyou@huawei.com>, <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>,
<kvm@vger.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
<wei.w.wang@intel.com>, <x86@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 01/16] perf/x86/intel: Add x86_pmu.pebs_vmx for Ice Lake Servers
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2021 11:05:20 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <606D2170.6020203@huawei.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210406124746.ji5iqladdlh73mok@two.firstfloor.org>
On 2021/4/6 20:47, Andi Kleen wrote:
>> AFAIK， Icelake supports adaptive PEBS and extended PEBS which Skylake
>> doesn't.
>> But we can still use IA32_PEBS_ENABLE MSR to indicate general-purpose
>> counter in Skylake.
>> Is there anything else that only Icelake supports in this patches set?
> Only Icelake server has the support for recovering from a EPT violation
> on the PEBS data structures. To use it on Skylake server you would
> need to pin the whole guest, but that is currently not done.
Sorry. Some questions about "Pin the whole guest". Do you mean VmPin
equals VmSize
in "/proc/$(pidof qemu-kvm)/status"? Or just VmLck equals VmSize? Or
something else?
>> Besides, we have tried this patches set in Icelake. We can use pebs(eg:
>> "perf record -e cycles:pp")
>> when guest is kernel-5.11, but can't when kernel-4.18. Is there a minimum
>> guest kernel version requirement?
> You would need a guest kernel that supports Icelake server PEBS. 4.18
> would need backports for tht.
>
>
> -Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-04-07 3:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-03-29 5:41 [PATCH v4 00/16] KVM: x86/pmu: Add basic support to enable Guest PEBS via DS Like Xu
2021-03-29 5:41 ` [PATCH v4 01/16] perf/x86/intel: Add x86_pmu.pebs_vmx for Ice Lake Servers Like Xu
2021-04-06 3:24 ` Liuxiangdong (Aven, Cloud Infrastructure Service Product Dept.)
2021-04-06 5:14 ` Xu, Like
2021-04-08 1:40 ` Liuxiangdong (Aven, Cloud Infrastructure Service Product Dept.)
2021-04-09 8:33 ` Liuxiangdong (Aven, Cloud Infrastructure Service Product Dept.)
2021-04-09 8:46 ` Like Xu
2021-04-12 11:26 ` Liuxiangdong (Aven, Cloud Infrastructure Service Product Dept.)
2021-04-12 15:25 ` Andi Kleen
2021-04-14 14:10 ` Liuxiangdong
2021-04-14 14:49 ` Liuxiangdong
2021-04-15 1:38 ` Xu, Like
2021-04-15 2:49 ` Liuxiangdong
2021-04-15 3:23 ` Like Xu
2021-04-06 12:47 ` Andi Kleen
2021-04-07 3:05 ` Liuxiangdong (Aven, Cloud Infrastructure Service Product Dept.) [this message]
2021-04-07 14:32 ` Andi Kleen
2021-03-29 5:41 ` [PATCH v4 02/16] perf/x86/intel: Handle guest PEBS overflow PMI for KVM guest Like Xu
2021-04-06 16:22 ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-04-07 0:47 ` Xu, Like
2021-03-29 5:41 ` [PATCH v4 03/16] perf/x86/core: Pass "struct kvm_pmu *" to determine the guest values Like Xu
2021-03-29 5:41 ` [PATCH v4 04/16] KVM: x86/pmu: Set MSR_IA32_MISC_ENABLE_EMON bit when vPMU is enabled Like Xu
2021-03-29 5:41 ` [PATCH v4 05/16] KVM: x86/pmu: Introduce the ctrl_mask value for fixed counter Like Xu
2021-03-29 5:41 ` [PATCH v4 06/16] KVM: x86/pmu: Reprogram guest PEBS event to emulate guest PEBS counter Like Xu
2021-04-07 8:40 ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-03-29 5:41 ` [PATCH v4 07/16] KVM: x86/pmu: Add IA32_PEBS_ENABLE MSR emulation for extended PEBS Like Xu
2021-04-07 8:56 ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-04-07 15:25 ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-03-29 5:41 ` [PATCH v4 08/16] KVM: x86/pmu: Add IA32_DS_AREA MSR emulation to manage guest DS buffer Like Xu
2021-04-07 15:39 ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-04-08 5:39 ` Xu, Like
2021-04-08 7:52 ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-04-08 8:44 ` Xu, Like
2021-04-09 7:07 ` Xu, Like
2021-04-09 7:59 ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-04-09 8:30 ` Xu, Like
2021-03-29 5:41 ` [PATCH v4 09/16] KVM: x86/pmu: Add PEBS_DATA_CFG MSR emulation to support adaptive PEBS Like Xu
2021-04-07 15:40 ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-03-29 5:41 ` [PATCH v4 10/16] KVM: x86: Set PEBS_UNAVAIL in IA32_MISC_ENABLE when PEBS is enabled Like Xu
2021-03-29 5:41 ` [PATCH v4 11/16] KVM: x86/pmu: Adjust precise_ip to emulate Ice Lake guest PDIR counter Like Xu
2021-03-29 5:41 ` [PATCH v4 12/16] KVM: x86/pmu: Move pmc_speculative_in_use() to arch/x86/kvm/pmu.h Like Xu
2021-03-29 5:41 ` [PATCH v4 13/16] KVM: x86/pmu: Disable guest PEBS before vm-entry in two cases Like Xu
2021-03-29 5:41 ` [PATCH v4 14/16] KVM: x86/pmu: Add kvm_pmu_cap to optimize perf_get_x86_pmu_capability Like Xu
2021-03-29 5:41 ` [PATCH v4 15/16] KVM: x86/cpuid: Refactor host/guest CPU model consistency check Like Xu
2021-03-29 5:41 ` [PATCH v4 16/16] KVM: x86/pmu: Expose CPUIDs feature bits PDCM, DS, DTES64 Like Xu
2021-04-06 3:19 ` [PATCH v4 00/16] KVM: x86/pmu: Add basic support to enable Guest PEBS via DS Xu, Like
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