From: Shannon Zhao <shannon.zhao@xxxxxxxxxx> This patchset adds guest PMU support for KVM on ARM64. It takes trap-and-emulate approach. When guest wants to monitor one event, it will be trapped by KVM and KVM will call perf_event API to create a perf event and call relevant perf_event APIs to get the count value of event. Use perf to test this patchset in guest. When using "perf list", it shows the list of the hardware events and hardware cache events perf supports. Then use "perf stat -e EVENT" to monitor some event. For example, use "perf stat -e cycles" to count cpu cycles and "perf stat -e cache-misses" to count cache misses. Below are the outputs of "perf stat -r 5 sleep 5" when running in host and guest. Host: Performance counter stats for 'sleep 5' (5 runs): 0.522048 task-clock (msec) # 0.000 CPUs utilized ( +- 1.50% ) 1 context-switches # 0.002 M/sec 0 cpu-migrations # 0.383 K/sec ( +-100.00% ) 48 page-faults # 0.092 M/sec ( +- 0.66% ) 1088597 cycles # 2.085 GHz ( +- 1.50% ) <not supported> stalled-cycles-frontend <not supported> stalled-cycles-backend 524457 instructions # 0.48 insns per cycle ( +- 0.89% ) <not supported> branches 9688 branch-misses # 18.557 M/sec ( +- 1.78% ) 5.000851736 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.00% ) Guest: Performance counter stats for 'sleep 5' (5 runs): 0.632288 task-clock (msec) # 0.000 CPUs utilized ( +- 1.11% ) 1 context-switches # 0.002 M/sec 0 cpu-migrations # 0.000 K/sec 49 page-faults # 0.078 M/sec ( +- 1.19% ) 1119933 cycles # 1.771 GHz ( +- 1.19% ) <not supported> stalled-cycles-frontend <not supported> stalled-cycles-backend 568318 instructions # 0.51 insns per cycle ( +- 0.91% ) <not supported> branches 10227 branch-misses # 16.175 M/sec ( +- 1.71% ) 5.001170616 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.00% ) Have a cycle counter read test like below in guest and host: static void test(void) { unsigned long count, count1, count2; count1 = read_cycles(); count++; count2 = read_cycles(); } Host: count1: 3044948797 count2: 3044948931 delta: 134 Guest: count1: 5782364731 count2: 5782364885 delta: 154 The gap between guest and host is very small. One reason for this I think is that it doesn't count the cycles in EL2 and host since we add exclude_hv = 1. So the cycles spent to store/restore registers which happens at EL2 are not included. This patchset can be fetched from [1] and the relevant QEMU version for test can be fetched from [2]. The results of 'perf test' can be found from [3][4]. The results of perf_event_tests test suite can be found from [5][6]. Thanks, Shannon [1] https://git.linaro.org/people/shannon.zhao/linux-mainline.git KVM_ARM64_PMU_v4 [2] https://git.linaro.org/people/shannon.zhao/qemu.git virtual_PMU [3] http://people.linaro.org/~shannon.zhao/PMU/perf-test-host.txt [4] http://people.linaro.org/~shannon.zhao/PMU/perf-test-guest.txt [5] http://people.linaro.org/~shannon.zhao/PMU/perf_event_tests-host.txt [6] http://people.linaro.org/~shannon.zhao/PMU/perf_event_tests-guest.txt Changes since v3: * Rebase on new linux kernel mainline * Use ARMV8_MAX_COUNTERS instead of 32 * Reset PMCR.E to zero. * Trigger overflow for software increment. * Optimize PMU interrupt inject logic. * Add handler for E,C,P bits of PMCR * Fix the overflow bug found by perf_event_tests * Run 'perf test', 'perf top' and perf_event_tests test suite * Add exclude_hv = 1 configuration to not count in EL2 Changes since v2: * Directly use perf raw event type to create perf_event in KVM * Add a helper vcpu_sysreg_write * remove unrelated header file Changes since v1: * Use switch...case for registers access handler instead of adding alone handler for each register * Try to use the sys_regs to store the register value instead of adding new variables in struct kvm_pmc * Fix the handle of cp15 regs * Create a new kvm device vPMU, then userspace could choose whether to create PMU * Fix the handle of PMU overflow interrupt Shannon Zhao (21): ARM64: Move PMU register related defines to asm/pmu.h KVM: ARM64: Define PMU data structure for each vcpu KVM: ARM64: Add offset defines for PMU registers KVM: ARM64: Add reset and access handlers for PMCR_EL0 register KVM: ARM64: Add reset and access handlers for PMSELR register KVM: ARM64: Add reset and access handlers for PMCEID0 and PMCEID1 register KVM: ARM64: PMU: Add perf event map and introduce perf event creating function KVM: ARM64: Add reset and access handlers for PMXEVTYPER register KVM: ARM64: Add reset and access handlers for PMXEVCNTR register KVM: ARM64: Add reset and access handlers for PMCCNTR register KVM: ARM64: Add reset and access handlers for PMCNTENSET and PMCNTENCLR register KVM: ARM64: Add reset and access handlers for PMINTENSET and PMINTENCLR register KVM: ARM64: Add reset and access handlers for PMOVSSET and PMOVSCLR register KVM: ARM64: Add reset and access handlers for PMUSERENR register KVM: ARM64: Add reset and access handlers for PMSWINC register KVM: ARM64: Add access handlers for PMEVCNTRn and PMEVTYPERn register KVM: ARM64: Add helper to handle PMCR register bits KVM: ARM64: Add PMU overflow interrupt routing KVM: ARM64: Reset PMU state when resetting vcpu KVM: ARM64: Free perf event of PMU when destroying vcpu KVM: ARM64: Add a new kvm ARM PMU device Documentation/virtual/kvm/devices/arm-pmu.txt | 15 + arch/arm/kvm/arm.c | 5 + arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_asm.h | 55 ++- arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 2 + arch/arm64/include/asm/pmu.h | 47 +++ arch/arm64/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h | 3 + arch/arm64/kernel/perf_event.c | 35 -- arch/arm64/kvm/Kconfig | 8 + arch/arm64/kvm/Makefile | 1 + arch/arm64/kvm/reset.c | 3 + arch/arm64/kvm/sys_regs.c | 547 ++++++++++++++++++++++++-- arch/arm64/kvm/sys_regs.h | 16 + include/kvm/arm_pmu.h | 74 ++++ include/linux/kvm_host.h | 1 + include/uapi/linux/kvm.h | 2 + virt/kvm/arm/pmu.c | 510 ++++++++++++++++++++++++ virt/kvm/arm/vgic.c | 8 + virt/kvm/arm/vgic.h | 1 + virt/kvm/kvm_main.c | 4 + 19 files changed, 1269 insertions(+), 68 deletions(-) create mode 100644 Documentation/virtual/kvm/devices/arm-pmu.txt create mode 100644 include/kvm/arm_pmu.h create mode 100644 virt/kvm/arm/pmu.c -- 2.0.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html