From: Xiaoyao Li <xiaoyao.li@intel.com>
To: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>,
"Xu, Like" <like.xu@intel.com>
Cc: Like Xu <like.xu@linux.intel.com>,
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>,
Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@tencent.com>,
Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>, Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>,
ak@linux.intel.com, wei.w.wang@intel.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v12 07/11] KVM: vmx/pmu: Unmask LBR fields in the MSR_IA32_DEBUGCTLMSR emualtion
Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2020 09:37:32 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1e1c2e15-ac02-b44b-6de9-87530e050855@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200707202155.GL20096@linux.intel.com>
On 7/8/2020 4:21 AM, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 13, 2020 at 05:42:50PM +0800, Xu, Like wrote:
>> On 2020/6/13 17:14, Xiaoyao Li wrote:
>>> On 6/13/2020 4:09 PM, Like Xu wrote:
[...]
>>>> @@ -237,6 +238,9 @@ static int intel_pmu_get_msr(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
>>>> struct msr_data *msr_info)
>>>> return 1;
>>>> msr_info->data = vcpu->arch.perf_capabilities;
>>>> return 0;
>>>> + case MSR_IA32_DEBUGCTLMSR:
>>>> + msr_info->data = vmcs_read64(GUEST_IA32_DEBUGCTL);
>>>
>>> Can we put the emulation of MSR_IA32_DEBUGCTLMSR in vmx_{get/set})_msr().
>>> AFAIK, MSR_IA32_DEBUGCTLMSR is not a pure PMU related MSR that there is
>>> bit 2 to enable #DB for bus lock.
>> We already have "case MSR_IA32_DEBUGCTLMSR" handler in the vmx_set_msr()
>> and you may apply you bus lock changes in that handler.
>
> Hrm, but that'd be weird dependency as vmx_set_msr() would need to check for
> #DB bus lock support but not actually write GUEST_IA32_DEBUGCTL, or we'd end
> up writing it twice when both bus lock and LBR are supported.
Yeah. That's what I concerned as well.
> I don't see anything in the series that takes action on writes to
> MSR_IA32_DEBUGCTLMSR beyond updating the VMCS, i.e. AFAICT there isn't any
> reason to call into the PMU, VMX can simply query vmx_get_perf_capabilities()
> to check if it's legal to enable DEBUGCTLMSR_LBR_MASK.
>
> A question for both LBR and bus lock: would it make sense to cache the
> guest's value in vcpu_vmx so that querying the guest value doesn't require
> a VMREAD? I don't have a good feel for how frequently it would be accessed.
Cache the guest's value is OK, even though #DB bus lock bit wouldn't be
toggled frequently in a normal OS.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-07-08 1:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-06-13 8:09 [PATCH v12 00/11] Guest Last Branch Recording Enabling Like Xu
2020-06-13 8:09 ` [PATCH v12 01/11] perf/x86: Fix variable types for LBR registers Like Xu
2020-11-09 6:34 ` Andi Kleen
2020-11-11 2:14 ` Xu, Like
2020-06-13 8:09 ` [PATCH v12 02/11] perf/x86/core: Refactor hw->idx checks and cleanup Like Xu
2020-06-13 8:09 ` [PATCH v12 03/11] perf/x86/lbr: Add interface to get LBR information Like Xu
2020-06-13 8:09 ` [PATCH v12 04/11] perf/x86: Add constraint to create guest LBR event without hw counter Like Xu
2020-06-13 8:09 ` [PATCH v12 05/11] perf/x86: Keep LBR records unchanged in host context for guest usage Like Xu
2020-06-13 8:09 ` [PATCH v12 06/11] KVM: vmx/pmu: Expose LBR to guest via MSR_IA32_PERF_CAPABILITIES Like Xu
2020-07-08 13:36 ` Andi Kleen
2020-07-08 14:38 ` Xu, Like
2020-06-13 8:09 ` [PATCH v12 07/11] KVM: vmx/pmu: Unmask LBR fields in the MSR_IA32_DEBUGCTLMSR emualtion Like Xu
2020-06-13 9:14 ` Xiaoyao Li
2020-06-13 9:42 ` Xu, Like
2020-07-07 20:21 ` Sean Christopherson
2020-07-08 1:37 ` Xiaoyao Li [this message]
2020-07-08 7:06 ` Xu, Like
2020-07-10 16:28 ` Sean Christopherson
2020-06-13 8:09 ` [PATCH v12 08/11] KVM: vmx/pmu: Pass-through LBR msrs when guest LBR event is scheduled Like Xu
2020-06-13 8:09 ` [PATCH v12 09/11] KVM: vmx/pmu: Emulate legacy freezing LBRs on virtual PMI Like Xu
2020-06-13 8:09 ` [PATCH v12 10/11] KVM: vmx/pmu: Reduce the overhead of LBR pass-through or cancellation Like Xu
2020-06-13 8:09 ` [PATCH v12 11/11] KVM: vmx/pmu: Release guest LBR event via lazy release mechanism Like Xu
2020-06-13 8:09 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/2] target/i386: define a new MSR based feature word - FEAT_PERF_CAPABILITIES Like Xu
2020-06-13 8:09 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2] target/i386: add -cpu,lbr=true support to enable guest LBR Like Xu
2020-06-23 13:13 ` [PATCH v12 00/11] Guest Last Branch Recording Enabling Like Xu
2020-07-01 2:38 ` Like Xu
2020-07-02 7:40 ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-07-02 13:11 ` Liang, Kan
2020-07-02 13:58 ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-07-03 7:56 ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-07-03 8:04 ` Xu, Like
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