Re: [PATCH v4 3/3] KVM: selftests: Test behavior of KVM_X86_DISABLE_EXITS_APERFMPERF

[Jim Mattson]

On Tue, Jun 10, 2025 at 1:42 AM Mi, Dapeng <dapeng1.mi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On 5/31/2025 2:52 AM, Jim Mattson wrote:
> > For a VCPU thread pinned to a single LPU, verify that interleaved host
> > and guest reads of IA32_[AM]PERF return strictly increasing values when
> > APERFMPERF exiting is disabled.

> Should we consider the possible overflow case of these 2 MSRs although it
> could be extremely rare? Thanks.

Unless someone moves the MSRs forward, at current frequencies, the
machine will have to be up for more than 100 years. I'll be long dead
by then.

Note that frequency invariant scheduling doesn't accommodate overflow
either. If the MSRs overflow, frequency invariant scheduling is
disabled.