Re: [RESEND v13 10/10] KVM: vmx/pmu: Release guest LBR event via lazy release mechanism

From: Paolo Bonzini
Date: Tue Jan 26 2021 - 09:56:46 EST


On 08/01/21 02:37, Like Xu wrote:
The vPMU uses GUEST_LBR_IN_USE_IDX (bit 58) in 'pmu->pmc_in_use' to
indicate whether a guest LBR event is still needed by the vcpu. If the
vcpu no longer accesses LBR related registers within a scheduling time
slice, and the enable bit of LBR has been unset, vPMU will treat the
guest LBR event as a bland event of a vPMC counter and release it
as usual. Also, the pass-through state of LBR records msrs is cancelled.

Signed-off-by: Like Xu <like.xu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/kvm/pmu.c | 7 +++++++
arch/x86/kvm/pmu.h | 4 ++++
arch/x86/kvm/vmx/pmu_intel.c | 17 ++++++++++++++++-
3 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/pmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/pmu.c
index 405890c723a1..e7c72eea07d4 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/pmu.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/pmu.c
@@ -463,6 +463,7 @@ void kvm_pmu_cleanup(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
struct kvm_pmc *pmc = NULL;
DECLARE_BITMAP(bitmask, X86_PMC_IDX_MAX);
int i;
+ bool extra_cleanup = false;
pmu->need_cleanup = false;
@@ -474,8 +475,14 @@ void kvm_pmu_cleanup(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
if (pmc && pmc->perf_event && !pmc_speculative_in_use(pmc))
pmc_stop_counter(pmc);
+
+ if (i == INTEL_GUEST_LBR_INUSE)
+ extra_cleanup = true;
}
+ if (extra_cleanup && kvm_x86_ops.pmu_ops->cleanup)
+ kvm_x86_ops.pmu_ops->cleanup(vcpu);
+

You can call this function always, it's cleaner than hardcoding INTEL_GUEST_LBR_INUSE.

You can also use INTEL_PMC_IDX_FIXED_VLBR directly instead of INTEL_GUEST_LBR_INUSE.

Paolo