On Intel platforms, software may uses IA32_MISC_ENABLE[7] bit to detect whether the performance monitoring facility is supported in the processor. It's dependent on the PMU being enabled for the guest and a write to this PMU available bit will be ignored. Cc: Yao Yuan <yuan.yao@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Like Xu <like.xu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/kvm/vmx/pmu_intel.c | 2 ++ arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 1 + 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/pmu_intel.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/pmu_intel.c index a886a47daebd..01c7d84ecf3e 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/pmu_intel.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/pmu_intel.c @@ -339,6 +339,8 @@ static void intel_pmu_refresh(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu) if (!pmu->version) return; + vcpu->arch.ia32_misc_enable_msr |= MSR_IA32_MISC_ENABLE_EMON; + perf_get_x86_pmu_capability(&x86_pmu); if (guest_cpuid_has(vcpu, X86_FEATURE_PDCM)) vcpu->arch.perf_capabilities = vmx_get_perf_capabilities(); diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c index 397f599b20e5..c89e423f6f5e 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c @@ -3086,6 +3086,7 @@ int kvm_set_msr_common(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct msr_data *msr_info) } break; case MSR_IA32_MISC_ENABLE: + data &= ~MSR_IA32_MISC_ENABLE_EMON; if (!kvm_check_has_quirk(vcpu->kvm, KVM_X86_QUIRK_MISC_ENABLE_NO_MWAIT) && ((vcpu->arch.ia32_misc_enable_msr ^ data) & MSR_IA32_MISC_ENABLE_MWAIT)) { if (!guest_cpuid_has(vcpu, X86_FEATURE_XMM3)) -- 2.21.3