To emulate guest PEBS facility for the above perf usages,
we need to implement 2 code paths:
1) Fast path
This is when the host assigned physical PMC has an identical index as
the virtual PMC (e.g. using physical PMC0 to emulate virtual PMC0).
This path is used in most common use cases.
2) Slow path
This is when the host assigned physical PMC has a different index
from the virtual PMC (e.g. using physical PMC1 to emulate virtual PMC0)
In this case, KVM needs to rewrite the PEBS records to change the
applicable counter indexes to the virtual PMC indexes, which would
otherwise contain the physical counter index written by PEBS facility,
and switch the counter reset values to the offset corresponding to
the physical counter indexes in the DS data structure.
The previous version [0] enables both fast path and slow path, which
seems a bit more complex as the first step. In this patchset, we want
to start with the fast path to get the basic guest PEBS enabled while
keeping the slow path disabled. More focused discussion on the slow
path [1] is planned to be put to another patchset in the next step.
Compared to later versions in subsequent steps, the functionality
to support host-guest PEBS both enabled and the functionality to
emulate guest PEBS when the counter is cross-mapped are missing
in this patch set (neither of these are typical scenarios).
With the basic support, the guest can retrieve the correct PEBS
information from its own PEBS records on the Ice Lake servers.
And we expect it should work when migrating to another Ice Lake
and no regression about host perf is expected.
Here are the results of pebs test from guest/host for same workload:
perf report on guest:
# Samples: 2K of event 'instructions:ppp', # Event count (approx.):
1473377250
# Overhead Command Shared Object Symbol
57.74% br_instr br_instr [.] lfsr_cond
41.40% br_instr br_instr [.] cmp_end
0.21% br_instr [kernel.kallsyms] [k] __lock_acquire
perf report on host:
# Samples: 2K of event 'instructions:ppp', # Event count (approx.):
1462721386
# Overhead Command Shared Object Symbol
57.90% br_instr br_instr [.] lfsr_cond
41.95% br_instr br_instr [.] cmp_end
0.05% br_instr [kernel.vmlinux] [k] lock_acquire
Conclusion: the profiling results on the guest are similar
tothat on the host.
A minimum guest kernel version may be v5.4 or a backport version
support Icelake server PEBS.
Please check more details in each commit and feel free to comment.
Previous:
https://lore.kernel.org/kvm/20210415032016.166201-1-like.xu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
[0]
https://lore.kernel.org/kvm/20210104131542.495413-1-like.xu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
[1]
https://lore.kernel.org/kvm/20210115191113.nktlnmivc3edstiv@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
V5 -> V6 Changelog:
- Rebased on the latest kvm/queue tree;
- Fix a git rebase issue (Liuxiangdong);
- Adjust the patch sequence 06/07 for bisection (Liuxiangdong);
Like Xu (16):
perf/x86/intel: Add EPT-Friendly PEBS for Ice Lake Server
perf/x86/intel: Handle guest PEBS overflow PMI for KVM guest
perf/x86/core: Pass "struct kvm_pmu *" to determine the guest values
KVM: x86/pmu: Set MSR_IA32_MISC_ENABLE_EMON bit when vPMU is enabled
KVM: x86/pmu: Introduce the ctrl_mask value for fixed counter
KVM: x86/pmu: Add IA32_PEBS_ENABLE MSR emulation for extended PEBS
KVM: x86/pmu: Reprogram PEBS event to emulate guest PEBS counter
KVM: x86/pmu: Add IA32_DS_AREA MSR emulation to support guest DS
KVM: x86/pmu: Add PEBS_DATA_CFG MSR emulation to support adaptive
PEBS
KVM: x86: Set PEBS_UNAVAIL in IA32_MISC_ENABLE when PEBS is enabled
KVM: x86/pmu: Adjust precise_ip to emulate Ice Lake guest PDIR
counter
KVM: x86/pmu: Move pmc_speculative_in_use() to arch/x86/kvm/pmu.h
KVM: x86/pmu: Disable guest PEBS temporarily in two rare situations
KVM: x86/pmu: Add kvm_pmu_cap to optimize
perf_get_x86_pmu_capability
KVM: x86/cpuid: Refactor host/guest CPU model consistency check
KVM: x86/pmu: Expose CPUIDs feature bits PDCM, DS, DTES64
arch/x86/events/core.c | 5 +-
arch/x86/events/intel/core.c | 129
++++++++++++++++++++++++------
arch/x86/events/perf_event.h | 5 +-
arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 16 ++++
arch/x86/include/asm/msr-index.h | 6 ++
arch/x86/include/asm/perf_event.h | 5 +-
arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c | 24 ++----
arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.h | 5 ++
arch/x86/kvm/pmu.c | 50 +++++++++---
arch/x86/kvm/pmu.h | 38 +++++++++
arch/x86/kvm/vmx/capabilities.h | 26 ++++--
arch/x86/kvm/vmx/pmu_intel.c | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++-----
arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c | 24 +++++-
arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.h | 2 +-
arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 14 ++--
15 files changed, 368 insertions(+), 96 deletions(-)
