Re: [PATCH] KVM: SVM: drop MSR_IA32_PERF_CAPABILITIES from emulated MSRs

Vitaly Kuznetsov
2020-06-16T16:45:43Z

Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com> writes:

> On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 9:14 AM Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>> state_test/smm_test selftests are failing on AMD with:
>> "Unexpected result from KVM_GET_MSRS, r: 51 (failed MSR was 0x345)"
>>
>> MSR_IA32_PERF_CAPABILITIES is an emulated MSR indeed but only on Intel,
>> make svm_has_emulated_msr() skip it so it is not returned by
>> KVM_GET_MSR_INDEX_LIST.
>
> Do we need to support this MSR under SVM for cross-vendor migration?
> Or, have we given up on that?

To be honest I'm not sure about the status of cross-vendor migration in
general and PMU implications in particular, hope Paolo/Sean can shed
some light. In this particular case my shallow understanding is that
MSR_IA32_PERF_CAPABILITIES has only one known feature bit which unlocks
an MSR range with additional counters. If the feature bit is not set
this, I guess, can easily be migrated (basically, let's allow writing
'0' there on AMD and return '0' on read). But what if the feature was
enabled? We'll have to support the new MSR range and do something with
it after migration (run intel_pmu in fully emulated mode?).

Anyway, the immediate issue I'm trying to fix here is: whatever is
returned by KVM_GET_MSR_INDEX_LIST can be successfully queried with
KVM_GET_MSRS as some userspaces count on that.

--
Vitaly