VMware exposes the following Pseudo PMCs:
0x10000: Physical host TSC
0x10001: Elapsed real time in ns
0x10002: Elapsed apparent time in ns
For more info refer to:
https://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper/Timekeeping-In-VirtualMachines.pdf
VMware allows access to these Pseduo-PMCs even when read via RDPMC
in Ring3 and CR4.PCE=0. Therefore, commit modifies x86 emulator
to allow access to these PMCs in this situation. In addition,
emulation of these PMCs were added to kvm_pmu_rdpmc().
Signed-off-by: Arbel Moshe <arbel.moshe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Liran Alon <liran.alon@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
pmc_reprogram_counter() always sets a sample period based on the value of
pmc->counter. However, hsw_hw_config() rejects sample periods less than
2^31 - 1. So for example, if a KVM guest does
struct perf_event_attr attr;
memset(&attr, 0, sizeof(attr));
attr.type = PERF_TYPE_RAW;
attr.size = sizeof(attr);
attr.config = 0x2005101c4; // conditional branches retired IN_TXCP
attr.sample_period = 0;
int fd = syscall(__NR_perf_event_open, &attr, 0, -1, -1, 0);
ioctl(fd, PERF_EVENT_IOC_DISABLE, 0);
ioctl(fd, PERF_EVENT_IOC_ENABLE, 0);
the guest kernel counts some conditional branch events, then updates the
virtual PMU register with a nonzero count. The host reaches
pmc_reprogram_counter() with nonzero pmc->counter, triggers EOPNOTSUPP
in hsw_hw_config(), prints "kvm_pmu: event creation failed" in
pmc_reprogram_counter(), and silently (from the guest's point of view) stops
counting events.
We fix event counting by forcing attr.sample_period to always be zero for
in_tx_cp counters. Sampling doesn't work, but it already didn't work and
can't be fixed without major changes to the approach in hsw_hw_config().
Signed-off-by: Robert O'Callahan <robert@ocallahan.org>
Signed-off-by: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Different pieces of code checked for vcpu->arch.apic being (non-)NULL,
or used kvm_vcpu_has_lapic (more optimized) or lapic_in_kernel.
Replace everything with lapic_in_kernel's name and kvm_vcpu_has_lapic's
implementation.
Reviewed-by: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
This patch defines a new function pointer struct (kvm_pmu_ops) to
support vPMU for both Intel and AMD. The functions pointers defined in
this new struct will be linked with Intel and AMD functions later. In the
meanwhile the struct that maps from event_sel bits to PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE
events is renamed and moved from Intel specific code to kvm_host.h as a
common struct.
Reviewed-by: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de>
Tested-by: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Wei Huang <wei@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
This will be used for private function used by AMD- and Intel-specific
PMU implementations.
Signed-off-by: Wei Huang <wei@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
This patch fix the following sparse warnings:
for arch/x86/kvm/x86.c:
warning: symbol 'emulator_read_write' was not declared. Should it be static?
warning: symbol 'emulator_write_emulated' was not declared. Should it be static?
warning: symbol 'emulator_get_dr' was not declared. Should it be static?
warning: symbol 'emulator_set_dr' was not declared. Should it be static?
for arch/x86/kvm/pmu.c:
warning: symbol 'fixed_pmc_events' was not declared. Should it be static?
Signed-off-by: Xiubo Li <lixiubo@cmss.chinamobile.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
kvm_pmu_cpuid_update makes a lot of bit manuiplation operations, when in fact
there are already unions that can be used instead. Changing the bit
manipulation to the union for clarity. This patch does not change the
functionality.
Signed-off-by: Nadav Amit <namit@cs.technion.ac.il>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
The rdpmc emulation checks that the counter (ECX) is not higher than 2, without
taking into considerations bits 30:31 role (e.g., bit 30 marks whether the
counter is fixed). The fix uses the pmu information for checking the validity
of the pmu counter.
Signed-off-by: Nadav Amit <namit@cs.technion.ac.il>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
If a guest enables a performance counter but does not enable PMI, the
hypervisor currently does not reprogram the performance counter once it
overflows. As a result the host performance counter is kept with the original
sampling period which was configured according to the value of the guest's
counter when the counter was enabled.
Such behaviour can cause very bad consequences. The most distrubing one can
cause the guest not to make any progress at all, and keep exiting due to host
PMI before any guest instructions is exeucted. This situation occurs when the
performance counter holds a very high value when the guest enables the
performance counter. As a result the host's sampling period is configured to be
very short. The host then never reconfigures the sampling period and get stuck
at entry->PMI->exit loop. We encountered such a scenario in our experiments.
The solution is to reprogram the counter even if the guest does not use PMI.
Signed-off-by: Nadav Amit <namit@cs.technion.ac.il>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
[KVM maintainers:
The underlying support for this is in perf/core now. So please merge
this patch into the KVM tree.]
This is not arch perfmon, but older CPUs will just ignore it. This makes
it possible to do at least some TSX measurements from a KVM guest
v2: Various fixes to address review feedback
v3: Ignore the bits when no CPUID. No #GP. Force raw events with TSX bits.
v4: Use reserved bits for #GP
v5: Remove obsolete argument
Acked-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
In order to migrate the PMU state correctly, we need to restore the
values of MSR_CORE_PERF_GLOBAL_STATUS (a read-only register) and
MSR_CORE_PERF_GLOBAL_OVF_CTRL (which has side effects when written).
We also need to write the full 40-bit value of the performance counter,
which would only be possible with a v3 architectural PMU's full-width
counter MSRs.
To distinguish host-initiated writes from the guest's, pass the
full struct msr_data to kvm_pmu_set_msr.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Merge patches queued during the run-up to the merge window.
* queue: (25 commits)
KVM: Choose better candidate for directed yield
KVM: Note down when cpu relax intercepted or pause loop exited
KVM: Add config to support ple or cpu relax optimzation
KVM: switch to symbolic name for irq_states size
KVM: x86: Fix typos in pmu.c
KVM: x86: Fix typos in lapic.c
KVM: x86: Fix typos in cpuid.c
KVM: x86: Fix typos in emulate.c
KVM: x86: Fix typos in x86.c
KVM: SVM: Fix typos
KVM: VMX: Fix typos
KVM: remove the unused parameter of gfn_to_pfn_memslot
KVM: remove is_error_hpa
KVM: make bad_pfn static to kvm_main.c
KVM: using get_fault_pfn to get the fault pfn
KVM: MMU: track the refcount when unmap the page
KVM: x86: remove unnecessary mark_page_dirty
KVM: MMU: Avoid handling same rmap_pde in kvm_handle_hva_range()
KVM: MMU: Push trace_kvm_age_page() into kvm_age_rmapp()
KVM: MMU: Add memslot parameter to hva handlers
...
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
There are macros that are Intel specific and not x86 generic. Rename
them into INTEL_*.
This patch removes X86_PMC_IDX_GENERIC and does:
$ sed -i -e 's/X86_PMC_MAX_/INTEL_PMC_MAX_/g' \
arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h \
arch/x86/include/asm/perf_event.h \
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.c \
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_p4.c \
arch/x86/kvm/pmu.c
$ sed -i -e 's/X86_PMC_IDX_FIXED/INTEL_PMC_IDX_FIXED/g' \
arch/x86/include/asm/perf_event.h \
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.c \
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel.c \
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_ds.c \
arch/x86/kvm/pmu.c
$ sed -i -e 's/X86_PMC_MSK_/INTEL_PMC_MSK_/g' \
arch/x86/include/asm/perf_event.h \
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.c
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1340217996-2254-2-git-send-email-robert.richter@amd.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
On reset all MPU counters should be enabled in GLOBAL_CTRL MSR.
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Currently pmu emulation emulates fixed counter 2 as bus cycles
architectural counter, but since commit 9c1497ea59 perf has
pseudo encoding for it. Use it.
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
If eventsel has EDGE, INV or CMASK set we should create raw counter for
it, but the check is done on a wrong variable. Fix it.
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Print warning once if pin control bit is set in eventsel msr since
emulation does not support it yet.
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Use perf_events to emulate an architectural PMU, version 2.
Based on PMU version 1 emulation by Avi Kivity.
[avi: adjust for cpuid.c]
[jan: fix anonymous field initialization for older gcc]
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Arbel Moshe