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From: Zide Chen <zide.chen@intel.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
	Zhao Liu <zhao1.liu@intel.com>, Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>,
	Fabiano Rosas <farosas@suse.de>
Cc: xiaoyao.li@intel.com, Dongli Zhang <dongli.zhang@oracle.com>,
	Dapeng Mi <dapeng1.mi@linux.intel.com>,
	Zide Chen <zide.chen@intel.com>
Subject: [PATCH 2/7] target/i386: Don't save/restore PERF_GLOBAL_OVF_CTRL MSR
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2026 17:10:48 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260117011053.80723-3-zide.chen@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260117011053.80723-1-zide.chen@intel.com>

From: Dapeng Mi <dapeng1.mi@linux.intel.com>

MSR_CORE_PERF_GLOBAL_OVF_CTRL is a write-only MSR and reads always
return zero.

Saving and restoring this MSR is therefore unnecessary.  Replace
VMSTATE_UINT64 with VMSTATE_UNUSED in the VMStateDescription to ignore
env.msr_global_ovf_ctrl during migration.  This avoids the need to bump
version_id and does not introduce any migration incompatibility.

Signed-off-by: Dapeng Mi <dapeng1.mi@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Zide Chen <zide.chen@intel.com>
---
 target/i386/cpu.h     | 1 -
 target/i386/kvm/kvm.c | 6 ------
 target/i386/machine.c | 4 ++--
 3 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/target/i386/cpu.h b/target/i386/cpu.h
index f2b79a8bf1dc..0b480c631ed0 100644
--- a/target/i386/cpu.h
+++ b/target/i386/cpu.h
@@ -2086,7 +2086,6 @@ typedef struct CPUArchState {
     uint64_t msr_fixed_ctr_ctrl;
     uint64_t msr_global_ctrl;
     uint64_t msr_global_status;
-    uint64_t msr_global_ovf_ctrl;
     uint64_t msr_fixed_counters[MAX_FIXED_COUNTERS];
     uint64_t msr_gp_counters[MAX_GP_COUNTERS];
     uint64_t msr_gp_evtsel[MAX_GP_COUNTERS];
diff --git a/target/i386/kvm/kvm.c b/target/i386/kvm/kvm.c
index 7b9b740a8e5a..cffbc90d1c50 100644
--- a/target/i386/kvm/kvm.c
+++ b/target/i386/kvm/kvm.c
@@ -4069,8 +4069,6 @@ static int kvm_put_msrs(X86CPU *cpu, KvmPutState level)
             if (has_architectural_pmu_version > 1) {
                 kvm_msr_entry_add(cpu, MSR_CORE_PERF_GLOBAL_STATUS,
                                   env->msr_global_status);
-                kvm_msr_entry_add(cpu, MSR_CORE_PERF_GLOBAL_OVF_CTRL,
-                                  env->msr_global_ovf_ctrl);
 
                 /* Now start the PMU.  */
                 kvm_msr_entry_add(cpu, MSR_CORE_PERF_FIXED_CTR_CTRL,
@@ -4588,7 +4586,6 @@ static int kvm_get_msrs(X86CPU *cpu)
             kvm_msr_entry_add(cpu, MSR_CORE_PERF_FIXED_CTR_CTRL, 0);
             kvm_msr_entry_add(cpu, MSR_CORE_PERF_GLOBAL_CTRL, 0);
             kvm_msr_entry_add(cpu, MSR_CORE_PERF_GLOBAL_STATUS, 0);
-            kvm_msr_entry_add(cpu, MSR_CORE_PERF_GLOBAL_OVF_CTRL, 0);
         }
         for (i = 0; i < num_architectural_pmu_fixed_counters; i++) {
             kvm_msr_entry_add(cpu, MSR_CORE_PERF_FIXED_CTR0 + i, 0);
@@ -4917,9 +4914,6 @@ static int kvm_get_msrs(X86CPU *cpu)
         case MSR_CORE_PERF_GLOBAL_STATUS:
             env->msr_global_status = msrs[i].data;
             break;
-        case MSR_CORE_PERF_GLOBAL_OVF_CTRL:
-            env->msr_global_ovf_ctrl = msrs[i].data;
-            break;
         case MSR_CORE_PERF_FIXED_CTR0 ... MSR_CORE_PERF_FIXED_CTR0 + MAX_FIXED_COUNTERS - 1:
             env->msr_fixed_counters[index - MSR_CORE_PERF_FIXED_CTR0] = msrs[i].data;
             break;
diff --git a/target/i386/machine.c b/target/i386/machine.c
index c9139612813b..1125c8a64ec5 100644
--- a/target/i386/machine.c
+++ b/target/i386/machine.c
@@ -666,7 +666,7 @@ static bool pmu_enable_needed(void *opaque)
     int i;
 
     if (env->msr_fixed_ctr_ctrl || env->msr_global_ctrl ||
-        env->msr_global_status || env->msr_global_ovf_ctrl) {
+        env->msr_global_status) {
         return true;
     }
     for (i = 0; i < MAX_FIXED_COUNTERS; i++) {
@@ -692,7 +692,7 @@ static const VMStateDescription vmstate_msr_architectural_pmu = {
         VMSTATE_UINT64(env.msr_fixed_ctr_ctrl, X86CPU),
         VMSTATE_UINT64(env.msr_global_ctrl, X86CPU),
         VMSTATE_UINT64(env.msr_global_status, X86CPU),
-        VMSTATE_UINT64(env.msr_global_ovf_ctrl, X86CPU),
+        VMSTATE_UNUSED(sizeof(uint64_t)),
         VMSTATE_UINT64_ARRAY(env.msr_fixed_counters, X86CPU, MAX_FIXED_COUNTERS),
         VMSTATE_UINT64_ARRAY(env.msr_gp_counters, X86CPU, MAX_GP_COUNTERS),
         VMSTATE_UINT64_ARRAY(env.msr_gp_evtsel, X86CPU, MAX_GP_COUNTERS),
-- 
2.52.0


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-01-17  1:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-01-17  1:10 [PATCH 0/7] target/i386: Misc PMU, PEBS, and MSR fixes and improvements Zide Chen
2026-01-17  1:10 ` [PATCH 1/7] target/i386: Disable unsupported BTS for guest Zide Chen
2026-01-19  1:47   ` Mi, Dapeng
2026-01-20 18:09     ` Chen, Zide
2026-01-17  1:10 ` Zide Chen [this message]
2026-01-17  1:10 ` [PATCH 3/7] target/i386: Gate enable_pmu on kvm_enabled() Zide Chen
2026-01-19  2:02   ` Mi, Dapeng
2026-01-17  1:10 ` [PATCH 4/7] target/i386: Support full-width writes for perf counters Zide Chen
2026-01-19  3:11   ` Mi, Dapeng
2026-01-17  1:10 ` [PATCH 5/7] target/i386: Save/Restore DS based PEBS specfic MSRs Zide Chen
2026-01-17  1:10 ` [PATCH 6/7] target/i386: Make some PEBS features user-visible Zide Chen
2026-01-19  3:30   ` Mi, Dapeng
2026-01-20 21:58     ` Chen, Zide
2026-01-21  5:19       ` Mi, Dapeng
2026-01-25  8:38       ` Zhao Liu
2026-01-27  0:51         ` Chen, Zide
2026-01-17  1:10 ` [PATCH 7/7] target/i386: Increase MSR_BUF_SIZE and split KVM_[GET/SET]_MSRS calls Zide Chen

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