The bit 12 represents "Processor Event Based Sampling Unavailable (RO)" : 1 = PEBS is not supported. 0 = PEBS is supported. A write to this PEBS_UNAVL available bit will bring #GP(0) when guest PEBS is enabled. Some PEBS drivers in guest may care about this bit. Signed-off-by: Like Xu <like.xu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/kvm/vmx/pmu_intel.c | 2 ++ arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 4 ++++ 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/pmu_intel.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/pmu_intel.c index c04e12812797..99d9453e0176 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/pmu_intel.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/pmu_intel.c @@ -426,6 +426,7 @@ static void intel_pmu_refresh(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu) INTEL_PMC_MAX_GENERIC, pmu->nr_arch_fixed_counters); if (vcpu->arch.perf_capabilities & PERF_CAP_PEBS_FORMAT) { + vcpu->arch.ia32_misc_enable_msr &= ~MSR_IA32_MISC_ENABLE_PEBS_UNAVAIL; if (vcpu->arch.perf_capabilities & PERF_CAP_PEBS_BASELINE) { pmu->pebs_enable_mask = ~pmu->global_ctrl; pmu->reserved_bits &= ~ICL_EVENTSEL_ADAPTIVE; @@ -436,6 +437,7 @@ static void intel_pmu_refresh(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu) } else pmu->pebs_enable_mask = ~((1ull << pmu->nr_arch_gp_counters) - 1); } else { + vcpu->arch.ia32_misc_enable_msr |= MSR_IA32_MISC_ENABLE_PEBS_UNAVAIL; vcpu->arch.perf_capabilities &= ~PERF_CAP_PEBS_MASK; } diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c index e1280bb18152..b5963a36bf6b 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c @@ -3087,6 +3087,10 @@ 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 (!msr_info->host_initiated && + (vcpu->arch.perf_capabilities & PERF_CAP_PEBS_FORMAT) && + (data & MSR_IA32_MISC_ENABLE_PEBS_UNAVAIL)) + return 1; 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