On 5/7/2024 5:22 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Mon, May 06, 2024 at 05:29:37AM +0000, Mingwei Zhang wrote:
>> From: Xiong Zhang <xiong.y.zhang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> Add x86 specific function to switch PMI handler since passthrough PMU and host
>> PMU use different interrupt vectors.
>>
>> x86_perf_guest_enter() switch PMU vector from NMI to KVM_GUEST_PMI_VECTOR,
>> and guest LVTPC_MASK value should be reflected onto HW to indicate whether
>> guest has cleared LVTPC_MASK or not, so guest lvt_pc is passed as parameter.
>>
>> x86_perf_guest_exit() switch PMU vector from KVM_GUEST_PMI_VECTOR to NMI.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Xiong Zhang <xiong.y.zhang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Signed-off-by: Dapeng Mi <dapeng1.mi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> arch/x86/events/core.c | 17 +++++++++++++++++
>> arch/x86/include/asm/perf_event.h | 3 +++
>> 2 files changed, 20 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/x86/events/core.c b/arch/x86/events/core.c
>> index 09050641ce5d..8167f2230d3a 100644
>> --- a/arch/x86/events/core.c
>> +++ b/arch/x86/events/core.c
>> @@ -701,6 +701,23 @@ struct perf_guest_switch_msr *perf_guest_get_msrs(int *nr, void *data)
>> }
>> EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(perf_guest_get_msrs);
>>
>> +void x86_perf_guest_enter(u32 guest_lvtpc)
>> +{
>> + lockdep_assert_irqs_disabled();
>> +
>> + apic_write(APIC_LVTPC, APIC_DM_FIXED | KVM_GUEST_PMI_VECTOR |
>> + (guest_lvtpc & APIC_LVT_MASKED));
>> +}
>> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(x86_perf_guest_enter);
>> +
>> +void x86_perf_guest_exit(void)
>> +{
>> + lockdep_assert_irqs_disabled();
>> +
>> + apic_write(APIC_LVTPC, APIC_DM_NMI);
>> +}
>> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(x86_perf_guest_exit);
>
> Urgghh... because it makes sense for this bare APIC write to be exported
> ?!?
Usually KVM doesn't access HW except vmx directly and requests other
components to access HW to avoid confliction, APIC_LVTPC is managed by x86
perf driver, so I added two functions here and exported them.
>
> Can't this at the very least be hard tied to perf_guest_{enter,exit}() ?
> perf_guest_{enter, exit} is called from this function in another commit, I
should merge that commit into this one according to your suggestion in
other email.
thanks
