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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 4/7] target/i386: Support full-width writes for perf counters
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2026 17:10:50 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260117011053.80723-5-zide.chen@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260117011053.80723-1-zide.chen@intel.com>

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

If IA32_PERF_CAPABILITIES.FW_WRITE (bit 13) is set, each general-
purpose counter IA32_PMCi (starting at 0xc1) is accompanied by a
corresponding alias MSR starting at 0x4c1 (IA32_A_PMC0), which are
64-bit wide.

The legacy IA32_PMCi MSRs are not full-width and their effective width
is determined by CPUID.0AH:EAX[23:16].

Since these two sets of MSRs are aliases, when IA32_A_PMCi is supported
it is safe to use it for save/restore instead of the legacy MSRs,
regardless of whether the hypervisor uses the legacy or the 64-bit
counterpart.

Full-width write is a user-visible feature and can be disabled
individually.

Reduce MAX_GP_COUNTERS from 18 to 15 to avoid conflicts between the
full-width MSR range and MSR_MCG_EXT_CTL.  Current CPUs support at most
10 general-purpose counters, so 15 is sufficient for now and leaves room
for future expansion.

Bump minimum_version_id to avoid migration from older QEMU, as this may
otherwise cause VMState overflow. This also requires bumping version_id,
which prevents migration to older QEMU as well.

Signed-off-by: Dapeng Mi <dapeng1.mi@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Zide Chen <zide.chen@intel.com>
---
 target/i386/cpu.h     |  5 ++++-
 target/i386/kvm/kvm.c | 19 +++++++++++++++++--
 target/i386/machine.c |  4 ++--
 3 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/target/i386/cpu.h b/target/i386/cpu.h
index 0b480c631ed0..e7cf4a7bd594 100644
--- a/target/i386/cpu.h
+++ b/target/i386/cpu.h
@@ -421,6 +421,7 @@ typedef enum X86Seg {
 
 #define MSR_IA32_PERF_CAPABILITIES      0x345
 #define PERF_CAP_LBR_FMT                0x3f
+#define PERF_CAP_FULL_WRITE             (1U << 13)
 
 #define MSR_IA32_TSX_CTRL		0x122
 #define MSR_IA32_TSCDEADLINE            0x6e0
@@ -448,6 +449,8 @@ typedef enum X86Seg {
 #define MSR_IA32_SGXLEPUBKEYHASH3       0x8f
 
 #define MSR_P6_PERFCTR0                 0xc1
+/* Alternative perfctr range with full access. */
+#define MSR_IA32_PMC0                   0x4c1
 
 #define MSR_IA32_SMBASE                 0x9e
 #define MSR_SMI_COUNT                   0x34
@@ -1740,7 +1743,7 @@ typedef struct {
 #endif
 
 #define MAX_FIXED_COUNTERS 3
-#define MAX_GP_COUNTERS    (MSR_IA32_PERF_STATUS - MSR_P6_EVNTSEL0)
+#define MAX_GP_COUNTERS    15
 
 #define NB_OPMASK_REGS 8
 
diff --git a/target/i386/kvm/kvm.c b/target/i386/kvm/kvm.c
index e81fa46ed66c..530f50e4b218 100644
--- a/target/i386/kvm/kvm.c
+++ b/target/i386/kvm/kvm.c
@@ -4049,6 +4049,12 @@ static int kvm_put_msrs(X86CPU *cpu, KvmPutState level)
         }
 
         if (has_architectural_pmu_version > 0) {
+            uint32_t perf_cntr_base = MSR_P6_PERFCTR0;
+
+            if (env->features[FEAT_PERF_CAPABILITIES] & PERF_CAP_FULL_WRITE) {
+                perf_cntr_base = MSR_IA32_PMC0;
+            }
+
             if (has_architectural_pmu_version > 1) {
                 /* Stop the counter.  */
                 kvm_msr_entry_add(cpu, MSR_CORE_PERF_FIXED_CTR_CTRL, 0);
@@ -4061,7 +4067,7 @@ static int kvm_put_msrs(X86CPU *cpu, KvmPutState level)
                                   env->msr_fixed_counters[i]);
             }
             for (i = 0; i < num_architectural_pmu_gp_counters; i++) {
-                kvm_msr_entry_add(cpu, MSR_P6_PERFCTR0 + i,
+                kvm_msr_entry_add(cpu, perf_cntr_base + i,
                                   env->msr_gp_counters[i]);
                 kvm_msr_entry_add(cpu, MSR_P6_EVNTSEL0 + i,
                                   env->msr_gp_evtsel[i]);
@@ -4582,6 +4588,12 @@ static int kvm_get_msrs(X86CPU *cpu)
         kvm_msr_entry_add(cpu, MSR_KVM_POLL_CONTROL, 1);
     }
     if (has_architectural_pmu_version > 0) {
+        uint32_t perf_cntr_base = MSR_P6_PERFCTR0;
+
+        if (env->features[FEAT_PERF_CAPABILITIES] & PERF_CAP_FULL_WRITE) {
+            perf_cntr_base = MSR_IA32_PMC0;
+        }
+
         if (has_architectural_pmu_version > 1) {
             kvm_msr_entry_add(cpu, MSR_CORE_PERF_FIXED_CTR_CTRL, 0);
             kvm_msr_entry_add(cpu, MSR_CORE_PERF_GLOBAL_CTRL, 0);
@@ -4591,7 +4603,7 @@ static int kvm_get_msrs(X86CPU *cpu)
             kvm_msr_entry_add(cpu, MSR_CORE_PERF_FIXED_CTR0 + i, 0);
         }
         for (i = 0; i < num_architectural_pmu_gp_counters; i++) {
-            kvm_msr_entry_add(cpu, MSR_P6_PERFCTR0 + i, 0);
+            kvm_msr_entry_add(cpu, perf_cntr_base + i, 0);
             kvm_msr_entry_add(cpu, MSR_P6_EVNTSEL0 + i, 0);
         }
     }
@@ -4920,6 +4932,9 @@ static int kvm_get_msrs(X86CPU *cpu)
         case MSR_P6_PERFCTR0 ... MSR_P6_PERFCTR0 + MAX_GP_COUNTERS - 1:
             env->msr_gp_counters[index - MSR_P6_PERFCTR0] = msrs[i].data;
             break;
+        case MSR_IA32_PMC0 ... MSR_IA32_PMC0 + MAX_GP_COUNTERS - 1:
+            env->msr_gp_counters[index - MSR_IA32_PMC0] = msrs[i].data;
+            break;
         case MSR_P6_EVNTSEL0 ... MSR_P6_EVNTSEL0 + MAX_GP_COUNTERS - 1:
             env->msr_gp_evtsel[index - MSR_P6_EVNTSEL0] = msrs[i].data;
             break;
diff --git a/target/i386/machine.c b/target/i386/machine.c
index 1125c8a64ec5..7d08a05835fc 100644
--- a/target/i386/machine.c
+++ b/target/i386/machine.c
@@ -685,8 +685,8 @@ static bool pmu_enable_needed(void *opaque)
 
 static const VMStateDescription vmstate_msr_architectural_pmu = {
     .name = "cpu/msr_architectural_pmu",
-    .version_id = 1,
-    .minimum_version_id = 1,
+    .version_id = 2,
+    .minimum_version_id = 2,
     .needed = pmu_enable_needed,
     .fields = (const VMStateField[]) {
         VMSTATE_UINT64(env.msr_fixed_ctr_ctrl, X86CPU),
-- 
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 ` [PATCH 2/7] target/i386: Don't save/restore PERF_GLOBAL_OVF_CTRL MSR Zide Chen
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 ` Zide Chen [this message]
2026-01-19  3:11   ` [PATCH 4/7] target/i386: Support full-width writes for perf counters 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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