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author | Kan Liang <[email protected]> | 2014-07-14 12:25:56 -0700 |
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committer | Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> | 2014-07-16 13:18:43 +0200 |
commit | 338b522ca43cfd32d11a370f4203bcd089c6c877 (patch) | |
tree | b42d503642417da49decd501a5d372536cb7db80 /tools/perf/util/trace-event-scripting.c | |
parent | 4a1c0f262f88e2676fda80a6bf80e7dbccae1dcb (diff) |
perf/x86/intel: Protect LBR and extra_regs against KVM lying
With -cpu host, KVM reports LBR and extra_regs support, if the host has
support.
When the guest perf driver tries to access LBR or extra_regs MSR,
it #GPs all MSR accesses,since KVM doesn't handle LBR and extra_regs support.
So check the related MSRs access right once at initialization time to avoid
the error access at runtime.
For reproducing the issue, please build the kernel with CONFIG_KVM_INTEL = y
(for host kernel).
And CONFIG_PARAVIRT = n and CONFIG_KVM_GUEST = n (for guest kernel).
Start the guest with -cpu host.
Run perf record with --branch-any or --branch-filter in guest to trigger LBR
Run perf stat offcore events (E.g. LLC-loads/LLC-load-misses ...) in guest to
trigger offcore_rsp #GP
Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Andi Kleen <[email protected]>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Maria Dimakopoulou <[email protected]>
Cc: Mark Davies <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <[email protected]>
Cc: Yan, Zheng <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
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