Re: perf with precise attribute kills all KVM based VMs

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Mon, 2012-07-09 at 17:19 +0300, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> Yes, this is knows problem that I can't find time to fix. The crash is
> cause by CPU using host PEBS virtual address while guest is running
> which causes guest memory corruption. We should disable evens that use
> PEBS at the guest entry. 

Whoops.. so the hardware is reading the DS address as programmed by the
host (host linear address) and using it as a guest linear address?

Quality stuff..

Disabling PEBS events for guests isn't pretty though.. but I guess the
only alternative is mapping the DS into the guest and reprogramming
MSR_IA32_DS_AREA which is all a little involved I suppose?
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