Re: [PATCH 8/9] KVM, VMX: Add support for guest/host-only profiling

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On 10/03/2011 03:49 PM, Gleb Natapov wrote:
Support guest/host-only profiling by switch perf msrs on
a guest entry if needed.

@@ -6052,6 +6056,26 @@ static void vmx_cancel_injection(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
  	vmcs_write32(VM_ENTRY_INTR_INFO_FIELD, 0);
  }

+static void atomic_switch_perf_msrs(struct vcpu_vmx *vmx)
+{
+#ifdef CONFIG_PERF_EVENTS

No need for #ifdef (if you also define perf_guest_get_msrs() when !CONFIG_PERF_EVENTS).


+	int i;
+
+	if (!cpu_has_arch_perfmon || vmx->perf_msrs_cnt<= 0)
+		return;

Why the first check?


+
+	perf_guest_get_msrs(vmx->perf_msrs_cnt, vmx->perf_msrs);
+	for (i = 0; i<  vmx->perf_msrs_cnt; i++) {
+		struct perf_guest_switch_msr *msr =&vmx->perf_msrs[i];
+		if (msr->host == msr->guest)
+			clear_atomic_switch_msr(vmx, msr->msr);
+		else
+			add_atomic_switch_msr(vmx, msr->msr, msr->guest,
+					msr->host);

This generates a lot of VMWRITEs even if nothing changes, just to re-set bits in the VMCS to their existing values. Need to add something like this:

   if (loaded_vmcs->msr[i].host == msr->host
&& loaded_vmcs->msr[i].guest == msr->guest)
          continue;

btw, shouldn't the msr autoload list be part of loaded_vmcs as well?


+	}
+#endif
+}
+
  #ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
  #define R "r"
  #define Q "q"
@@ -6101,6 +6125,8 @@ static void __noclone vmx_vcpu_run(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
  	if (vcpu->guest_debug&  KVM_GUESTDBG_SINGLESTEP)
  		vmx_set_interrupt_shadow(vcpu, 0);

+	atomic_switch_perf_msrs(vmx);
+
  	vmx->__launched = vmx->loaded_vmcs->launched;
  	asm(
  		/* Store host registers */
@@ -6306,6 +6332,15 @@ static struct kvm_vcpu *vmx_create_vcpu(struct kvm *kvm, unsigned int id)
  	vmx->nested.current_vmptr = -1ull;
  	vmx->nested.current_vmcs12 = NULL;

+	vmx->perf_msrs_cnt = perf_guest_get_msrs_count();
+	if (vmx->perf_msrs_cnt>  0) {
+		vmx->perf_msrs = kmalloc(vmx->perf_msrs_cnt *
+				sizeof(struct perf_guest_switch_msr),
+				GFP_KERNEL);
+		if (!vmx->perf_msrs)
+			goto free_vmcs;
+	}
+

Do we really need a private buffer? Perhaps perf_guest_get_msrs() can return a perf-internal buffer (but then, we will need to copy it for the optimization above, but that's a separate issue).

--
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function

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