Re: [PATCH v2] KVM: x86: PMU Event Filter

From: Paolo Bonzini
Date: Wed Jul 17 2019 - 06:22:29 EST


On 16/07/19 10:49, Wei Wang wrote:
> {
> Â KVM_PMU_EVENT_ACTION_GP_NONE = 0,
> Â KVM_PMU_EVENT_ACTION_GP_ACCEPT = 1,
> Â KVM_PMU_EVENT_ACTION_GP_REJECT = 2,
> Â KVM_PMU_EVENT_ACTION_MAX
> };
>
> and add comments to explain something like below:
>
> Those GP actions are for the filtering of guest events running on the
> virtual general
> purpose counters. The actions to filter guest events running on the
> virtual fixed
> function counters are not added currently as they all seem fine to be
> used by the
> guest so far, but that could be supported on demand in the future via
> adding new
> actions.
>

Let's just implement the bitmap of fixed counters (it's okay to follow
the same action as gp counters), and add it to struct
kvm_pmu_event_filter. While at it, we can add a bunch of padding u32s
and a flags field that can come in handy later (it would fail the ioctl
if nonzero).

Wei, Eric, who's going to do it? :)

Paolo