[PATCH v2 05/17] KVM: x86/pmu: Reprogram guest PEBS event to emulate guest PEBS counter

From: Like Xu
Date: Sun Nov 08 2020 - 21:18:33 EST


When a guest counter is configured as a PEBS counter through
IA32_PEBS_ENABLE, a guest PEBS event will be reprogrammed by
configuring a non-zero precision level in the perf_event_attr.

The guest PEBS overflow PMI bit would be set in the guest
GLOBAL_STATUS MSR when PEBS facility generates a PEBS
overflow PMI based on guest IA32_DS_AREA MSR.

The attr.precise_ip would be adjusted to a special precision
level when the new PEBS-PDIR feature is supported later which
would affect the host counters scheduling.

The guest PEBS event would not be reused for non-PEBS
guest event even with the same guest counter index.

Originally-by: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Co-developed-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Like Xu <like.xu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 2 ++
arch/x86/kvm/pmu.c | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
2 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
index 505f9b39c423..eb0d73a095a3 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
@@ -449,6 +449,8 @@ struct kvm_pmu {
DECLARE_BITMAP(all_valid_pmc_idx, X86_PMC_IDX_MAX);
DECLARE_BITMAP(pmc_in_use, X86_PMC_IDX_MAX);

+ u64 pebs_enable;
+
/*
* The gate to release perf_events not marked in
* pmc_in_use only once in a vcpu time slice.
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/pmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/pmu.c
index 67741d2a0308..c6208234e007 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/pmu.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/pmu.c
@@ -76,7 +76,11 @@ static void kvm_perf_overflow_intr(struct perf_event *perf_event,
struct kvm_pmu *pmu = pmc_to_pmu(pmc);

if (!test_and_set_bit(pmc->idx, pmu->reprogram_pmi)) {
- __set_bit(pmc->idx, (unsigned long *)&pmu->global_status);
+ if (perf_event->attr.precise_ip) {
+ /* Indicate PEBS overflow PMI to guest. */
+ __set_bit(62, (unsigned long *)&pmu->global_status);
+ } else
+ __set_bit(pmc->idx, (unsigned long *)&pmu->global_status);
kvm_make_request(KVM_REQ_PMU, pmc->vcpu);

/*
@@ -99,6 +103,7 @@ static void pmc_reprogram_counter(struct kvm_pmc *pmc, u32 type,
bool exclude_kernel, bool intr,
bool in_tx, bool in_tx_cp)
{
+ struct kvm_pmu *pmu = vcpu_to_pmu(pmc->vcpu);
struct perf_event *event;
struct perf_event_attr attr = {
.type = type,
@@ -110,6 +115,7 @@ static void pmc_reprogram_counter(struct kvm_pmc *pmc, u32 type,
.exclude_kernel = exclude_kernel,
.config = config,
};
+ bool pebs = test_bit(pmc->idx, (unsigned long *)&pmu->pebs_enable);

attr.sample_period = get_sample_period(pmc, pmc->counter);

@@ -124,9 +130,23 @@ static void pmc_reprogram_counter(struct kvm_pmc *pmc, u32 type,
attr.sample_period = 0;
attr.config |= HSW_IN_TX_CHECKPOINTED;
}
+ if (pebs) {
+ /*
+ * The non-zero precision level of guest event makes the ordinary
+ * guest event becomes a guest PEBS event and triggers the host
+ * PEBS PMI handler to determine whether the PEBS overflow PMI
+ * comes from the host counters or the guest.
+ *
+ * For most PEBS hardware events, the difference in the software
+ * precision levels of guest and host PEBS events will not affect
+ * the accuracy of the PEBS profiling result, because the "event IP"
+ * in the PEBS record is calibrated on the guest side.
+ */
+ attr.precise_ip = 1;
+ }

event = perf_event_create_kernel_counter(&attr, -1, current,
- intr ? kvm_perf_overflow_intr :
+ (intr || pebs) ? kvm_perf_overflow_intr :
kvm_perf_overflow, pmc);
if (IS_ERR(event)) {
pr_debug_ratelimited("kvm_pmu: event creation failed %ld for pmc->idx = %d\n",
@@ -161,6 +181,10 @@ static bool pmc_resume_counter(struct kvm_pmc *pmc)
get_sample_period(pmc, pmc->counter)))
return false;

+ if (!test_bit(pmc->idx, (unsigned long *)&pmc_to_pmu(pmc)->pebs_enable) &&
+ pmc->perf_event->attr.precise_ip)
+ return false;
+
/* reuse perf_event to serve as pmc_reprogram_counter() does*/
perf_event_enable(pmc->perf_event);

--
2.21.3