Perf defines four types of perf event: per cpu pinned event, per process pinned event, per cpu event, per process event, their prioirity are from high to low. vLBR event is per process pinned event. So durng vm exit handler, if vLBR event preempts perf low priority LBR event, perf will disable LBR and let guest control LBR, or if vLBR event is preempted by perf high priority LBR event, perf will enable LBR. In a word LBR status may be changed during vm exit handler. MSR_IA32_DEBUGCTLMSR[0] controls LBR enabling, kvm saves its value into vmx->host_debugctlmsr in vcpu_load(), and kvm restores its value from vmx->host_debugctlmsr after vm exit immediately. Since MSR_IA32_DEBUGCTLMSR[0] could be changed during vm exit handler, the saved value vmx->host_debugctlmsr could be wrong. So this commit saves MSR_IA32_DEBUGCTLMSR into vmx->host_debugctlmsr just before vm entry to reflect the real hardware value. Signed-off-by: Xiong Zhang <xiong.y.zhang@xxxxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c | 5 +---- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c index 44fb619803b8..5ca61a26d0d7 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c @@ -1459,13 +1459,9 @@ void vmx_vcpu_load_vmcs(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, int cpu, */ static void vmx_vcpu_load(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, int cpu) { - struct vcpu_vmx *vmx = to_vmx(vcpu); - vmx_vcpu_load_vmcs(vcpu, cpu, NULL); vmx_vcpu_pi_load(vcpu, cpu); - - vmx->host_debugctlmsr = get_debugctlmsr(); } static void vmx_vcpu_put(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu) @@ -7273,6 +7269,7 @@ static fastpath_t vmx_vcpu_run(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu) atomic_switch_perf_msrs(vmx); if (intel_pmu_lbr_is_enabled(vcpu)) vmx_passthrough_lbr_msrs(vcpu); + vmx->host_debugctlmsr = get_debugctlmsr(); if (enable_preemption_timer) vmx_update_hv_timer(vcpu); -- 2.25.1