Re: [PATCH] KVM: VMX: Always treat MSR_IA32_PERF_CAPABILITIES as a valid PMU MSR

From: Xu, Like
Date: Wed Jun 03 2020 - 21:38:05 EST


On 2020/6/4 4:33, Sean Christopherson wrote:
Unconditionally return true when querying the validity of
MSR_IA32_PERF_CAPABILITIES so as to defer the validity check to
intel_pmu_{get,set}_msr(), which can properly give the MSR a pass when
the access is initiated from host userspace.
Regardless of the MSR is emulated or not, is it a really good assumption that
the guest cpuids are not properly ready when we do initialization from host userspace
?
The MSR is emulated so
there is no underlying hardware dependency to worry about.

Fixes: 27461da31089a ("KVM: x86/pmu: Support full width counting")
Cc: Like Xu <like.xu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@xxxxxxxxx>
---

KVM selftests are completely hosed for me, everything fails on KVM_GET_MSRS.
At least I tried "make --silent -C tools/testing/selftests/kvm run_tests"
and how do I reproduce the "everything fails" for this issue ?

Thanks,
Like Xu

arch/x86/kvm/vmx/pmu_intel.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/pmu_intel.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/pmu_intel.c
index d33d890b605f..bdcce65c7a1d 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/pmu_intel.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/pmu_intel.c
@@ -181,7 +181,7 @@ static bool intel_is_valid_msr(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u32 msr)
ret = pmu->version > 1;
break;
case MSR_IA32_PERF_CAPABILITIES:
- ret = guest_cpuid_has(vcpu, X86_FEATURE_PDCM);
+ ret = 1;
break;
default:
ret = get_gp_pmc(pmu, msr, MSR_IA32_PERFCTR0) ||