From: Eric Hankland <ehankland@xxxxxxxxxx> Ensure that the value of the counter was successfully set to 0 after writing it while the counter was running. Signed-off-by: Eric Hankland <ehankland@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Bill Wendling <morbo@xxxxxxxxxx> --- x86/pmu.c | 16 ++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+) diff --git a/x86/pmu.c b/x86/pmu.c index a4e483b..c8096b8 100644 --- a/x86/pmu.c +++ b/x86/pmu.c @@ -420,6 +420,21 @@ static void check_rdpmc(void) report_prefix_pop(); } +static void check_running_counter_wrmsr(void) +{ + pmu_counter_t evt = { + .ctr = MSR_IA32_PERFCTR0, + .config = EVNTSEL_OS | EVNTSEL_USR | gp_events[1].unit_sel, + .count = 0, + }; + + start_event(&evt); + loop(); + wrmsr(MSR_IA32_PERFCTR0, 0); + stop_event(&evt); + report(evt.count < gp_events[1].min, "running counter wrmsr"); +} + int main(int ac, char **av) { struct cpuid id = cpuid(10); @@ -454,6 +469,7 @@ int main(int ac, char **av) check_counters_many(); check_counter_overflow(); check_gp_counter_cmask(); + check_running_counter_wrmsr(); return report_summary(); } -- 2.25.0.265.gbab2e86ba0-goog