Re: [PATCH 4/4] kvm: Implement PEBS virtualization

[Paolo Bonzini]

Il 10/06/2014 23:06, Marcelo Tosatti ha scritto:
> > BTW how about general PMU migration? As far as I can tell there
> > is no code to save/restore the state for that currently, right?
>
> Paolo wrote support for it, recently. Paolo?

Yes, on the KVM side all that is needed is to special case MSR reads and 
writes that have side effects, for example:

        case MSR_CORE_PERF_GLOBAL_STATUS:
                if (msr_info->host_initiated) {
                        pmu->global_status = data;
                        return 0;
                }
                break; /* RO MSR */
        case MSR_CORE_PERF_GLOBAL_OVF_CTRL:
                if (!(data & (pmu->global_ctrl_mask & ~(3ull<<62)))) {
                        if (!msr_info->host_initiated)
                                pmu->global_status &= ~data;
                        pmu->global_ovf_ctrl = data;
                        return 0;
                }
                break;

Right now this is only needed for writes.

Userspace then can read/write these MSRs, and add them to the migration 
stream.  QEMU has code for that.

Paolo
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