Avoid calling into legacy/emulated vPMU logic such as reprogram_counters() when passthrough vPMU is enabled. Note that even when passthrough vPMU is enabled, global_ctrl may still be intercepted if guest VM only sees a subset of the counters. Suggested-by: Xiong Zhang <xiong.y.zhang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Mingwei Zhang <mizhang@xxxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Yongwei Ma <yongwei.ma@xxxxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/kvm/pmu.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/pmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/pmu.c index bd94f2d67f5c..e9047051489e 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kvm/pmu.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/pmu.c @@ -713,7 +713,8 @@ int kvm_pmu_set_msr(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct msr_data *msr_info) if (pmu->global_ctrl != data) { diff = pmu->global_ctrl ^ data; pmu->global_ctrl = data; - reprogram_counters(pmu, diff); + if (!is_passthrough_pmu_enabled(vcpu)) + reprogram_counters(pmu, diff); } break; case MSR_CORE_PERF_GLOBAL_OVF_CTRL: -- 2.46.0.rc1.232.g9752f9e123-goog