From: Liuxiangdong <liuxiangdong5@huawei.com>
To: <like.xu.linux@gmail.com>, <alex.shi@linux.alibaba.com>,
<like.xu.linux@gmail.com>
Cc: <ak@linux.intel.com>, <jmattson@google.com>, <joro@8bytes.org>,
<kan.liang@intel.com>, <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
<seanjc@google.com>, <vkuznets@redhat.com>,
<wanpengli@tencent.com>, <wei.w.wang@intel.com>, <x86@kernel.org>,
"Fangyi (Eric)" <eric.fangyi@huawei.com>,
Xiexiangyou <xiexiangyou@huawei.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v14 00/11] KVM: x86/pmu: Guest Last Branch Recording Enabling
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2021 11:15:56 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <61036EEC.4020006@huawei.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6102A1A5.90901@huawei.com>
Hi, like.
Does it have requirement on CPU if we want to use LBR in Guest?
I have tried linux-5.14-rc3 on different CPUs. And I can use lbr on
Haswell, Broadwell, skylake and icelake, but I cannot use lbr on IvyBridge.
Thanks!
On 2021/7/29 20:40, Liuxiangdong wrote:
> Hi, like.
>
> This patch set has been merged in 5.12 kernel tree so we can use LBR
> in Guest.
> Does it have requirement on CPU?
> I can use lbr in guest on skylake and icelake, but cannot on IvyBridge.
>
> I can see lbr formats(000011b) in perf_capabilities msr(0x345), but
> there is still
> error when I try.
>
> $ perf record -b
> Error:
> cycles: PMU Hardware doesn't support sampling/overflow-interrupts. Try
> 'perf stat'
>
> Host CPU:
> Architecture: x86_64
> CPU op-mode(s): 32-bit, 64-bit
> Byte Order: Little Endian
> Address sizes: 46 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
> CPU(s): 24
> On-line CPU(s) list: 0-23
> Thread(s) per core: 2
> Core(s) per socket: 6
> Socket(s): 2
> NUMA node(s): 2
> Vendor ID: GenuineIntel
> CPU family: 6
> Model: 62
> Model name: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2620 v2 @
> 2.10GHz
> Stepping: 4
>
>
> Thanks!
> Xiangdong Liu
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-07-30 3:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-02-01 5:10 [PATCH v14 00/11] KVM: x86/pmu: Guest Last Branch Recording Enabling Like Xu
2021-02-01 5:10 ` [PATCH v14 01/11] KVM: x86/vmx: Make vmx_set_intercept_for_msr() non-static Like Xu
2021-02-01 5:10 ` [PATCH v14 02/11] KVM: x86/pmu: Set up IA32_PERF_CAPABILITIES if PDCM bit is available Like Xu
2021-02-02 11:48 ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-02-01 5:10 ` [PATCH v14 03/11] KVM: vmx/pmu: Add PMU_CAP_LBR_FMT check when guest LBR is enabled Like Xu
2021-02-02 12:00 ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-02-01 5:10 ` [PATCH v14 04/11] KVM: vmx/pmu: Expose DEBUGCTLMSR_LBR in the MSR_IA32_DEBUGCTLMSR Like Xu
2021-02-01 5:10 ` [PATCH v14 05/11] KVM: vmx/pmu: Create a guest LBR event when vcpu sets DEBUGCTLMSR_LBR Like Xu
2021-02-01 5:10 ` [PATCH v14 06/11] KVM: vmx/pmu: Pass-through LBR msrs when the guest LBR event is ACTIVE Like Xu
2021-02-01 5:10 ` [PATCH v14 07/11] KVM: vmx/pmu: Reduce the overhead of LBR pass-through or cancellation Like Xu
2021-02-01 5:10 ` [PATCH v14 08/11] KVM: vmx/pmu: Emulate legacy freezing LBRs on virtual PMI Like Xu
2021-02-01 5:10 ` [PATCH v14 09/11] KVM: vmx/pmu: Release guest LBR event via lazy release mechanism Like Xu
2021-02-01 5:10 ` [PATCH v14 10/11] KVM: vmx/pmu: Expose LBR_FMT in the MSR_IA32_PERF_CAPABILITIES Like Xu
2021-02-01 5:10 ` [PATCH v14 11/11] selftests: kvm/x86: add test for pmu msr MSR_IA32_PERF_CAPABILITIES Like Xu
2021-02-01 6:01 ` [PATCH v14 07/11] KVM: vmx/pmu: Reduce the overhead of LBR pass-through or cancellation Like Xu
2021-02-01 6:01 ` [PATCH v14 08/11] KVM: vmx/pmu: Emulate legacy freezing LBRs on virtual PMI Like Xu
2021-02-01 6:01 ` [PATCH v14 09/11] KVM: vmx/pmu: Release guest LBR event via lazy release mechanism Like Xu
2021-02-01 6:01 ` [PATCH v14 10/11] KVM: vmx/pmu: Expose LBR_FMT in the MSR_IA32_PERF_CAPABILITIES Like Xu
2021-02-01 6:01 ` [PATCH v14 11/11] selftests: kvm/x86: add test for pmu msr MSR_IA32_PERF_CAPABILITIES Like Xu
2021-02-02 14:53 ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-02-02 12:37 ` [PATCH v14 00/11] KVM: x86/pmu: Guest Last Branch Recording Enabling Paolo Bonzini
2021-07-29 12:40 ` Liuxiangdong
2021-07-30 3:15 ` Liuxiangdong [this message]
2021-07-30 3:28 ` Like Xu
2022-09-13 23:42 ` Jim Mattson
2022-09-19 7:26 ` Like Xu
2022-09-19 18:08 ` Jim Mattson
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