This series introduces the concept of masked events to the pmu event
filter. Masked events can help reduce the number of events needed in the
pmu event filter by allowing a more generalized matching method to be
used for the unit mask when filtering guest events in the pmu. With
masked events, if an event select should be restricted from the guest,
instead of having to add an entry to the pmu event filter for each
event select + unit mask pair, a masked event can be added to generalize
the unit mask values.
v4 -> v5
- Patch #3, Simplified the return logic in filter_contains_match(). [Jim]
- Patch #4, Corrected documentation for errors and returns. [Jim]
- Patch #6, Added TEST_REQUIRE for KVM_CAP_PMU_EVENT_MASKED_EVENTS. [Jim]
- Patch #7,
- Removed TEST_REQUIRE for KVM_CAP_PMU_EVENT_MASKED_EVENTS (moved it
to patch #6).
- Changed the assert to a branch in supports_event_mem_inst_retired().
[Jim]
- Added a check to make sure 3 GP counters are available. [Jim]
v3 -> v4
- Patch #1, Fix the mask for the guest event select used in bsearch.
- Patch #2, Remove invalid events from the pmu event filter.
- Patch #3, Create an internal/common representation for filter events.
- Patch #4,
- Use a common filter event to simplify kernel code. [Jim]
- s/invalid/exclude for masked events. More descriptive. [Sean]
- Simplified masked event layout. There was no need to complicate it.
- Add KVM_CAP_PMU_EVENT_MASKED_EVENTS.
- Patch #7, Rewrote the masked events tests using MEM_INST_RETIRED (0xd0)
on Intel and LS Dispatch (0x29) on AMD. They have multiple unit masks
each which were leveraged for improved masked events testing.
v2 -> v3
- Reworked and documented the invert flag usage. It was possible to
get ambiguous results when using it. That should not be possible
now.
- Added testing for inverted masked events to validate the updated
implementation.
- Removed testing for inverted masked events from the masked events test.
They were meaningless with the updated implementation. More meaning
tests were added separately.
v1 -> v2
- Made has_invalid_event() static to fix warning.
- Fixed checkpatch.pl errors and warnings.
- Updated to account for KVM_X86_PMU_OP().
Aaron Lewis (7):
kvm: x86/pmu: Correct the mask used in a pmu event filter lookup
kvm: x86/pmu: Remove invalid raw events from the pmu event filter
kvm: x86/pmu: prepare the pmu event filter for masked events
kvm: x86/pmu: Introduce masked events to the pmu event filter
selftests: kvm/x86: Add flags when creating a pmu event filter
selftests: kvm/x86: Add testing for KVM_SET_PMU_EVENT_FILTER
selftests: kvm/x86: Test masked events
Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst | 82 +++-
arch/x86/include/asm/kvm-x86-pmu-ops.h | 1 +
arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h | 28 ++
arch/x86/kvm/pmu.c | 262 ++++++++++--
arch/x86/kvm/pmu.h | 39 ++
arch/x86/kvm/svm/pmu.c | 6 +
arch/x86/kvm/vmx/pmu_intel.c | 6 +
arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 1 +
include/uapi/linux/kvm.h | 1 +
.../kvm/x86_64/pmu_event_filter_test.c | 387 +++++++++++++++++-
10 files changed, 771 insertions(+), 42 deletions(-)
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