Re: [PATCH v4 20/38] KVM: x86/pmu: Check if mediated vPMU can intercept rdpmc

[Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>]

Trimmed the Cc substantially, I'm guessing most folks don't need a play-by-play
update of misguided optimism. 

On Mon, Aug 04, 2025, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 01, 2025, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 30, 2025, Dapeng Mi wrote:
> > > 
> > > On 7/30/2025 8:38 AM, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> > > > On Tue, Jul 29, 2025, Dapeng Mi wrote:
> > > >> BTW, Sean, may I know your plan about the mediated vPMU v5 patch set? Thanks.
> > > > I'll get it out this week (hopefully tomorrow).
> > > 
> > > Thumbs up! Thanks.
> > 
> > I lied, I'm not going to get it out until Monday.  Figuring out how to deal with
> > instruction emulation in the fastpath VM-Exit handlers took me longer than I was
> > hoping/expecting.
> > 
> > It's fully tested, and I have all but one changelog written, but I'm out of time
> > for today (I made a stupid goof (inverted a !) that cost me an ~hour today, *sigh*).
> > 
> > Unless I get hit by a meteor, I'll get it out Monday.
> 
> *sigh*
> 
> Wrong again (fortunately, I didn't get hit by a meteor).  Long story short, I
> revisited (yet again) how to deal with enabling the mediated PMU.  I had been
> doing almost all of my testing with a hack to force-enable a mediated PMU, and
> when it came time to rip that out, I just couldn't convince myself that requiring
> userspace to enable KVM_CAP_PMU_CAPABILITY was the best behavior (I especially
> hated that PMU support would silently disappear).
> 
> So, bad news is, v5 isn't happening today.  Good news is that I think I figured
> out a not-awful solution for enabling the mediated PMU.  I'll post details (and
> hopefully v5) tomorrow.

Too hopeful yet again.  I realized at the last minute that I neglected to add
support for disabling PMU MSR interception for L2 after rebasing on the MSR
interception cleanups.  Adding the code back was easy, but I need to test it.

I'm buried in meetings tomorrow, but there's a small chance I'll be able to squeak
out v5.