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From: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
To: Jan Dakinevich <jan.dakinevich@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, "Denis V. Lunev" <den@virtuozzo.com>,
	Roman Kagan <rkagan@virtuozzo.com>,
	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
	Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>,
	Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] i386/cpu/kvm: look at PMU's CPUID before setting MSRs
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2017 15:39:51 -0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171227173951.GE24856@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1514383466-7257-1-git-send-email-jan.dakinevich@virtuozzo.com>

On Wed, Dec 27, 2017 at 05:04:26PM +0300, Jan Dakinevich wrote:
> Certain PMU-related MSRs are not supported for CPUs with PMU
> architecture below version 2. KVM rejects any access to them (see
> intel_is_valid_msr_idx routine in KVM), and QEMU fails on the following
> assertion:
> 
>   kvm_put_msrs: Assertion `ret == cpu->kvm_msr_buf->nmsrs' failed.
> 
> QEMU also could fail if KVM exposes less fixed counters then 3. It could
> happen if host system run inside another hypervisor, which is tweaking
> PMU-related CPUID. To prevent possible fail, number of fixed counters now is
> obtained in the same way as number of GP counters.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Roman Kagan <rkagan@virtuozzo.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jan Dakinevich <jan.dakinevich@virtuozzo.com>

Reviewed-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>

-- 
Eduardo

      reply	other threads:[~2017-12-27 17:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-12-27 14:04 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] i386/cpu/kvm: look at PMU's CPUID before setting MSRs Jan Dakinevich
2017-12-27 17:39 ` Eduardo Habkost [this message]

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