Re: [PATCH v4 22/38] KVM: x86/pmu: Optimize intel/amd_pmu_refresh() helpers

[Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>]

This is not an optimization in any sane interpretation of that word.

On Mon, Mar 24, 2025, Mingwei Zhang wrote:
> From: Dapeng Mi <dapeng1.mi@linux.intel.com>
> 
> Currently pmu->global_ctrl is initialized in the common kvm_pmu_refresh()
> helper since both Intel and AMD CPUs set enable bits for all GP counters
> for PERF_GLOBAL_CTRL MSR. But it may be not the best place to initialize
> pmu->global_ctrl. Strictly speaking, pmu->global_ctrl is vendor specific

And?  There's mounds of KVM code that show it's very, very easy to manage
global_ctrl in common code.

> and there are lots of global_ctrl related processing in
> intel/amd_pmu_refresh() helpers, so better handle them in same place.
> Thus move pmu->global_ctrl initialization into intel/amd_pmu_refresh()
> helpers.
> 
> Besides, intel_pmu_refresh() doesn't handle global_ctrl_rsvd and
> global_status_rsvd properly and fix it.

Really?  You mention a bug fix in passing, and squash it into an opinionated
refactoring that is advertised as "optimizations" without even stating what the
bug is?  C'mon.

> Signed-off-by: Dapeng Mi <dapeng1.mi@linux.intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Mingwei Zhang <mizhang@google.com>
> ---
>  arch/x86/kvm/pmu.c           | 10 -------
>  arch/x86/kvm/svm/pmu.c       | 14 +++++++--
>  arch/x86/kvm/vmx/pmu_intel.c | 55 ++++++++++++++++++------------------
>  3 files changed, 39 insertions(+), 40 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/pmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/pmu.c
> index 4e8cefcce7ab..2ac4c039de8b 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/pmu.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/pmu.c
> @@ -843,16 +843,6 @@ void kvm_pmu_refresh(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
>  		return;
>  
>  	kvm_pmu_call(refresh)(vcpu);
> -
> -	/*
> -	 * At RESET, both Intel and AMD CPUs set all enable bits for general
> -	 * purpose counters in IA32_PERF_GLOBAL_CTRL (so that software that
> -	 * was written for v1 PMUs don't unknowingly leave GP counters disabled
> -	 * in the global controls).  Emulate that behavior when refreshing the
> -	 * PMU so that userspace doesn't need to manually set PERF_GLOBAL_CTRL.
> -	 */
> -	if (kvm_pmu_has_perf_global_ctrl(pmu) && pmu->nr_arch_gp_counters)
> -		pmu->global_ctrl = GENMASK_ULL(pmu->nr_arch_gp_counters - 1, 0);

Absolutely not, this code stays where it is.

>  }
>  
>  void kvm_pmu_init(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/pmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/pmu.c
> index 153972e944eb..eba086ef5eca 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/pmu.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/pmu.c
> @@ -198,12 +198,20 @@ static void __amd_pmu_refresh(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
>  	pmu->nr_arch_gp_counters = min_t(unsigned int, pmu->nr_arch_gp_counters,
>  					 kvm_pmu_cap.num_counters_gp);
>  
> -	if (pmu->version > 1) {
> -		pmu->global_ctrl_rsvd = ~((1ull << pmu->nr_arch_gp_counters) - 1);
> +	if (kvm_pmu_cap.version > 1) {

It's not just global_ctrl.  PEBS and the fixed counters also depend on v2+ (the
SDM contradicts itself; KVM's ABI is that they're v2+).

> +		/*
> +		 * At RESET, AMD CPUs set all enable bits for general purpose counters in
> +		 * IA32_PERF_GLOBAL_CTRL (so that software that was written for v1 PMUs
> +		 * don't unknowingly leave GP counters disabled in the global controls).
> +		 * Emulate that behavior when refreshing the PMU so that userspace doesn't
> +		 * need to manually set PERF_GLOBAL_CTRL.
> +		 */
> +		pmu->global_ctrl = BIT_ULL(pmu->nr_arch_gp_counters) - 1;
> +		pmu->global_ctrl_rsvd = ~pmu->global_ctrl;
>  		pmu->global_status_rsvd = pmu->global_ctrl_rsvd;
>  	}
>  
> -	pmu->counter_bitmask[KVM_PMC_GP] = ((u64)1 << 48) - 1;
> +	pmu->counter_bitmask[KVM_PMC_GP] = BIT_ULL(48) - 1;

I like these cleanups, but they too belong in a separate patch.

>  	pmu->reserved_bits = 0xfffffff000280000ull;
>  	pmu->raw_event_mask = AMD64_RAW_EVENT_MASK;
>  	/* not applicable to AMD; but clean them to prevent any fall out */