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author | Andi Kleen <[email protected]> | 2019-02-04 14:23:30 -0800 |
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committer | Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> | 2019-02-11 08:00:39 +0100 |
commit | 9b545c04abd4f7246a3bde040efde587abebb23c (patch) | |
tree | 8fce94799e295c68da00c8ae76ccfdc53ddc4c43 /tools/lib | |
parent | f26d9db21bf9b5dbfe17a5bc3bdf4ca6c961c924 (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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