Re: [PATCH v5 0/8] KVM: x86: Intel LBR related perf cleanups

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On 10/6/22 02:03, Sean Christopherson wrote:
PeterZ, I dropped your ACK from v4 because the perf patches were completely
broken.

Fix a bug where KVM incorrectly advertises PMU_CAP_LBR_FMT to userspace if
perf has disabled LBRs, e.g. because probing one or more LBR MSRs during
setup hit a #GP.

The non-KVM patch cleans up a KVM-specific perf API to fix a benign bug
where KVM ignores the error return from the API.

The remaining patches clean up KVM's PERF_CAPABILITIES mess, which makes
everything far more complex than it needs to be by

v5:
  - Drop perf patches that removed stubs.  The stubs are sadly necessary
    when CPU_SUP_INTEL=n && KVM_INTEL={m,y}, which is possible due to
    KVM_INTEL effectively depending on INTEL || CENTAUR || ZHAOXIN.
    [hint provided by kernel test robot].
  - Add a patch to ignore guest CPUID on host userspace MSR writes.
  - Add supported PERF_CAPABILITIES to kvm_caps to simplify code for all
    parties.

v4
  - https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220901173258.925729-1-seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx:
  - Make vmx_get_perf_capabilities() non-inline to avoid references to
    x86_perf_get_lbr() when CPU_SUP_INTEL=n. [kernel test robot]

v3:
  - https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220831000051.4015031-1-seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx
  - Drop patches for bug #1 (already merged).
  - Drop misguided "clean up the capability check" patch. [Like]

v2:
  - https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220803192658.860033-1-seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx
  - Add patches to fix bug #2. [Like]
  - Add a patch to clean up the capability check.
  - Tweak the changelog for the PMU refresh bug fix to call out that
    KVM should disallow changing feature MSRs after KVM_RUN. [Like]

v1: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220727233424.2968356-1-seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx

Sean Christopherson (8):
   perf/x86/core: Zero @lbr instead of returning -1 in x86_perf_get_lbr()
     stub
   KVM: VMX: Advertise PMU LBRs if and only if perf supports LBRs
   KVM: VMX: Fold vmx_supported_debugctl() into vcpu_supported_debugctl()
   KVM: VMX: Ignore guest CPUID for host userspace writes to DEBUGCTL
   KVM: x86: Track supported PERF_CAPABILITIES in kvm_caps
   KVM: x86: Init vcpu->arch.perf_capabilities in common x86 code
   KVM: x86: Handle PERF_CAPABILITIES in common x86's
     kvm_get_msr_feature()
   KVM: x86: Directly query supported PERF_CAPABILITIES for WRMSR checks

  arch/x86/events/intel/lbr.c       |  6 +---
  arch/x86/include/asm/perf_event.h |  6 ++--
  arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c            |  3 +-
  arch/x86/kvm/vmx/capabilities.h   | 37 ----------------------
  arch/x86/kvm/vmx/pmu_intel.c      |  1 -
  arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c            | 51 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------
  arch/x86/kvm/x86.c                | 14 ++++-----
  arch/x86/kvm/x86.h                |  1 +
  8 files changed, 52 insertions(+), 67 deletions(-)


base-commit: e18d6152ff0f41b7f01f9817372022df04e0d354

Queued, with patches 2-4 destined to kvm/master.

Paolo




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