Re: [Patch v2 0/6] Perf kvm commands bug fix

[Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>]

On Mon, Aug 11, 2025 at 01:55:40PM +0800, Dapeng Mi wrote:
> his patch-set fixes perf kvm commands issues, like missed memory
> allocation check/free, out of range memory access and especially the
> issue that fails to sample guest with "perf kvm record/top" commands on
> Intel platforms.
> 
> The commit 634d36f82517 ("perf record: Just use "cycles:P" as the
>  default event") changes to use PEBS event to do sampling by default
> including guest sampling. This breaks host to sample guest with commands
> "perf kvm record/top" on Intel platforms.
> 
> Since the change "KVM: x86/pmu: Add basic support to enable guest PEBS
>  via DS"[1] starts, host loses the capability to sample guest with PEBS
> since all PEBS related MSRs are switched to guest value after vm-entry,
> like IA32_DS_AREA MSR is switched to guest GVA at vm-entry. This leads
> to PEBS events can't be used to sample guest by host, otherwise no guest
> PEBS records can be really sampled. The patches 5-6/6 fix this issue by
> using "cycles" event instead of PEBS event "cycles:P" to sample guest on
> Intel platforms.
> 
> Changes:
>   v1 -> v2:
>   * Free memory allocated by strdup().
>   * Check "--pfm-events" in kvm_add_default_arch_event() as well.
>   * Opportunistically fix the missed memory allocation and free issue in
>     builtin-kwork.
>   * Comments refine. 
> 
> 
> Tests:
>   * Run command "perf kvm record -a && perf kvm report" and "perf kvm
>     top" on Intel Sapphire Rapids platform, guest records can be
>     captured successfully.
>   * Since no powerpc platforms on hand, doesn't check the patches on
>     powerpc. Any test on powerpc is appreciated.
> 
> Ref:
>   [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220411101946.20262-1-likexu@tencent.com/
> 
> 
> Dapeng Mi (6):
>   perf tools kvm: Add missed memory allocation check and free
>   perf tools kwork: Add missed memory allocation check and free
>   perf tools kvm: Fix the potential out of range memory access issue
>   perf tools: Add helper x86__is_intel_cpu()
>   perf tools kvm: Use "cycles" to sample guest for "kvm record" on Intel
>   perf tools kvm: Use "cycles" to sample guest for "kvm top" on Intel

Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>

Thanks,
Namhyung

> 
>  tools/perf/arch/x86/util/kvm-stat.c |  51 +++++++++++
>  tools/perf/builtin-kvm.c            | 130 ++++++++++++++++++++--------
>  tools/perf/builtin-kwork.c          |  27 ++++--
>  tools/perf/util/env.c               |  22 +++++
>  tools/perf/util/env.h               |   2 +
>  tools/perf/util/kvm-stat.h          |  10 +++
>  6 files changed, 203 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)
> 
> 
> base-commit: 6235ce77749f45cac27f630337e2fdf04e8a6c73
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> 2.34.1
>