Re: [PATCH 3/3] KVM: x86/pmu: Segregate Intel and AMD specific logic

[Jim Mattson]

On Mon, Feb 21, 2022 at 2:02 AM Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@xxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On 21-Feb-22 1:27 PM, Like Xu wrote:
> > On 21/2/2022 3:31 pm, Ravi Bangoria wrote:
> >>   void reprogram_counter(struct kvm_pmu *pmu, int pmc_idx)
> >>   {
> >>       struct kvm_pmc *pmc = kvm_x86_ops.pmu_ops->pmc_idx_to_pmc(pmu, pmc_idx);
> >> +    bool is_intel = !strncmp(kvm_x86_ops.name, "kvm_intel", 9);
> >
> > How about using guest_cpuid_is_intel(vcpu)
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> Yeah, that's better then strncmp().
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> > directly in the reprogram_gp_counter() ?
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> We need this flag in reprogram_fixed_counter() as well.

Explicit "is_intel" checks in any form seem clumsy, since we have
already put some effort into abstracting away the implementation
differences in struct kvm_pmu. It seems like these differences could
be handled by adding three masks to that structure: the "raw event
mask" (i.e. event selector and unit mask), the hsw_in_tx mask, and the
hsw_in_tx_checkpointed mask.

These changes should also be coordinated with Like's series that
eliminates all of the PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE nonsense.