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* [PATCH v3 0/6] KVM: arm/arm64: add support for chained counters
@ 2019-02-18 13:47 Andrew Murray
  2019-02-18 13:47 ` [PATCH v3 1/6] KVM: arm/arm64: rename kvm_pmu_{enable/disable}_counter functions Andrew Murray
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  0 siblings, 6 replies; 9+ messages in thread
From: Andrew Murray @ 2019-02-18 13:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Christoffer Dall, Marc Zyngier
  Cc: Suzuki K Poulose, kvmarm, linux-arm-kernel, Julien Thierry

ARMv8 provides support for chained PMU counters, where an event type
of 0x001E is set for odd-numbered counters, the event counter will
increment by one for each overflow of the preceding even-numbered
counter. Let's emulate this in KVM by creating a 64 bit perf counter
when a user chains two emulated counters together.

Testing has been performed by hard-coding hwc->sample_period in
__hw_perf_event_init (arm_pmu.c) to a small value, this results in
regular overflows (for non sampling events). The following command
was then used to measure chained and non-chained instruction cycles:

perf stat -e armv8_pmuv3/long=1,inst_retired/u \
          -e armv8_pmuv3/long=0,inst_retired/u dd if=/dev/zero bs=1M \
	  count=10 | gzip > /dev/null

The reported values were identical (and for non-chained was in the
same ballpark when running on a kernel without this patchset). Debug
was added to verify that the guest received overflow interrupts for
the chain counter.

Changes since v2:

 - Rebased onto v5.0-rc7

 - Add check for cycle counter in correct patch

 - Minor style, naming and comment changes

 - Extract armv8pmu_evtype_is_chain from arch/arm64/kernel/perf_event.c
   into a common header that KVM can use

Changes since v1:

 - Rename kvm_pmu_{enable,disable}_counter to reflect that they can
   operate on multiple counters at once and use these functions where
   possible

 - Fix bugs with overflow handing, kvm_pmu_get_counter_value did not
   take into consideration the perf counter value overflowing the low
   counter

 - Ensure PMCCFILTR_EL0 is used when operating on the cycle counter

 - Rename kvm_pmu_reenable_enabled_{pair, single} and similar

 - Always create perf event disabled to simplify logic elsewhere

 - Move PMCNTENSET_EL0 test to kvm_pmu_enable_counter_mask

Andrew Murray (6):
  KVM: arm/arm64: rename kvm_pmu_{enable/disable}_counter functions
  KVM: arm/arm64: extract duplicated code to own function
  KVM: arm/arm64: re-create event when setting counter value
  KVM: arm/arm64: lazily create perf events on enable
  arm64: perf: extract chain helper into header
  KVM: arm/arm64: support chained PMU counters

 arch/arm64/include/asm/perf_event.h |   5 +
 arch/arm64/kernel/perf_event.c      |   2 +-
 arch/arm64/kvm/sys_regs.c           |   4 +-
 include/kvm/arm_pmu.h               |   9 +-
 virt/kvm/arm/pmu.c                  | 410 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
 5 files changed, 360 insertions(+), 70 deletions(-)

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2019-02-18 13:48 ` [PATCH v3 2/6] KVM: arm/arm64: extract duplicated code to own function Andrew Murray
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2019-02-18 13:48 ` [PATCH v3 4/6] KVM: arm/arm64: lazily create perf events on enable Andrew Murray
2019-02-18 13:48 ` [PATCH v3 5/6] arm64: perf: extract chain helper into header Andrew Murray
2019-02-18 13:48 ` [PATCH v3 6/6] KVM: arm/arm64: support chained PMU counters Andrew Murray
2019-02-20 13:36   ` Marc Zyngier
2019-02-20 19:34     ` Andrew Murray

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