[PATCH 7/8] perf/x86/intel: Drop fixed-counter PEBS constraints for baseline PEBS

From: Dapeng Mi

Date: Thu Jun 04 2026 - 21:37:30 EST


On SPR guests where pebs_baseline is not advertised, running:

$ ./perf record -e cpu/event=0x00,umask=0x01,i\
name=INST_RETIRED.PREC_DIST/p -c 10000 sleep 1

can trigger:

unchecked MSR access error: WRMSR to 0x3f1 ... in\
intel_pmu_pebs_enable_all()

Root cause:
SPR-specific PEBS constraints allow fixed-counter scheduling,
for example INST_RETIRED.PREC_DIST on fixed counter 0. In guests without
pebs_baseline, KVM does not support PEBS sampling on fixed counters,
so enabling such events reaches an invalid MSR programming path.

Fix:
Drop fixed-counter entries from the PEBS constraint table. Without
pebs_baseline, those fixed-counter PEBS events now resolve to empty
constraints and are not scheduled/enabled, avoiding the warning and the
broken guest PEBS path.

This is safe because, in pebs_baseline-capable cases, PEBS constraint
lookup already falls back to non-PEBS constraints when needed, and
fixed-counter constraints are effectively shared there.

Reported-by: Yi Lai <yi1.lai@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Dapeng Mi <dapeng1.mi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/events/intel/ds.c | 13 -------------
1 file changed, 13 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/events/intel/ds.c b/arch/x86/events/intel/ds.c
index cb72af9b61ce..5db15a92017a 100644
--- a/arch/x86/events/intel/ds.c
+++ b/arch/x86/events/intel/ds.c
@@ -1447,10 +1447,6 @@ struct event_constraint intel_skl_pebs_event_constraints[] = {
};

struct event_constraint intel_icl_pebs_event_constraints[] = {
- INTEL_FLAGS_UEVENT_CONSTRAINT(0x01c0, 0x100000000ULL), /* old INST_RETIRED.PREC_DIST */
- INTEL_FLAGS_UEVENT_CONSTRAINT(0x0100, 0x100000000ULL), /* INST_RETIRED.PREC_DIST */
- INTEL_FLAGS_UEVENT_CONSTRAINT(0x0400, 0x800000000ULL), /* SLOTS */
-
INTEL_PLD_CONSTRAINT(0x1cd, 0xff), /* MEM_TRANS_RETIRED.LOAD_LATENCY */
INTEL_FLAGS_UEVENT_CONSTRAINT_DATALA_LD(0x11d0, 0xf), /* MEM_INST_RETIRED.STLB_MISS_LOADS */
INTEL_FLAGS_UEVENT_CONSTRAINT_DATALA_ST(0x12d0, 0xf), /* MEM_INST_RETIRED.STLB_MISS_STORES */
@@ -1473,9 +1469,6 @@ struct event_constraint intel_icl_pebs_event_constraints[] = {
};

struct event_constraint intel_glc_pebs_event_constraints[] = {
- INTEL_FLAGS_UEVENT_CONSTRAINT(0x100, 0x100000000ULL), /* INST_RETIRED.PREC_DIST */
- INTEL_FLAGS_UEVENT_CONSTRAINT(0x0400, 0x800000000ULL),
-
INTEL_FLAGS_EVENT_CONSTRAINT(0xc0, 0xfe),
INTEL_PLD_CONSTRAINT(0x1cd, 0xfe),
INTEL_PSD_CONSTRAINT(0x2cd, 0x1),
@@ -1500,9 +1493,6 @@ struct event_constraint intel_glc_pebs_event_constraints[] = {
};

struct event_constraint intel_lnc_pebs_event_constraints[] = {
- INTEL_FLAGS_UEVENT_CONSTRAINT(0x100, 0x100000000ULL), /* INST_RETIRED.PREC_DIST */
- INTEL_FLAGS_UEVENT_CONSTRAINT(0x0400, 0x800000000ULL),
-
INTEL_FLAGS_UEVENT_CONSTRAINT(0x012a, 0x1), /* OCR.* events */
INTEL_FLAGS_UEVENT_CONSTRAINT(0x012b, 0x1), /* OCR.* events */

@@ -1534,9 +1524,6 @@ struct event_constraint intel_lnc_pebs_event_constraints[] = {
};

struct event_constraint intel_pnc_pebs_event_constraints[] = {
- INTEL_FLAGS_UEVENT_CONSTRAINT(0x100, 0x100000000ULL), /* INST_RETIRED.PREC_DIST */
- INTEL_FLAGS_UEVENT_CONSTRAINT(0x0400, 0x800000000ULL),
-
INTEL_HYBRID_LDLAT_CONSTRAINT(0x1cd, 0xfc),
INTEL_HYBRID_STLAT_CONSTRAINT(0x2cd, 0x3),
INTEL_FLAGS_UEVENT_CONSTRAINT_DATALA_LD(0x11d0, 0xf), /* MEM_INST_RETIRED.STLB_MISS_LOADS */
--
2.34.1