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authorAndi Kleen <[email protected]>2019-02-04 14:23:30 -0800
committerIngo Molnar <[email protected]>2019-02-11 08:00:39 +0100
commit9b545c04abd4f7246a3bde040efde587abebb23c (patch)
tree8fce94799e295c68da00c8ae76ccfdc53ddc4c43 /tools/lib
parentf26d9db21bf9b5dbfe17a5bc3bdf4ca6c961c924 (diff)
perf/x86/kvm: Avoid unnecessary work in guest filtering
KVM added a workaround for PEBS events leaking into guests with commit: 26a4f3c08de4 ("perf/x86: disable PEBS on a guest entry.") This uses the VT entry/exit list to add an extra disable of the PEBS_ENABLE MSR. Intel also added a fix for this issue to microcode updates on Haswell/Broadwell/Skylake. It turns out using the MSR entry/exit list makes VM exits significantly slower. The list is only needed for disabling PEBS, because the GLOBAL_CTRL change gets optimized by KVM into changing the VMCS. Check for the microcode updates that have the microcode fix for leaking PEBS, and disable the extra entry/exit list entry for PEBS_ENABLE. In addition we always clear the GLOBAL_CTRL for the PEBS counter while running in the guest, which is enough to make them never fire at the wrong side of the host/guest transition. The overhead for VM exits with the filtering active with the patch is reduced from 8% to 4%. The microcode patch has already been merged into future platforms. This patch is one-off thing. The quirks is used here. For other old platforms which doesn't have microcode patch and quirks, extra disable of the PEBS_ENABLE MSR is still required. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <[email protected]> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]> Cc: David Ahern <[email protected]> Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]> Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Stephane Eranian <[email protected]> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]> Cc: Vince Weaver <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
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