Re: [PATCH] perf/core: fix the bug in the event multiplexing

[Shijie Huang]

Hi Oliver,

在 2023/8/9 16:25, Oliver Upton 写道:
> Hi Huang,
>
> On Wed, Aug 09, 2023 at 09:39:53AM +0800, Huang Shijie wrote:
> > 2.) Root cause.
> > 	There is only 7 counters in my arm64 platform:
> > 	  (one cycle counter) + (6 normal counters)
> >
> > 	In 1.3 above, we will use 10 event counters.
> > 	Since we only have 7 counters, the perf core will trigger
> >         	event multiplexing in hrtimer:
> > 	     merge_sched_in() -->perf_mux_hrtimer_restart() -->
> > 	     perf_rotate_context().
> >
> >         In the perf_rotate_context(), it does not restore some PMU registers
> >         as context_switch() does.  In context_switch():
> >               kvm_sched_in()  --> kvm_vcpu_pmu_restore_guest()
> >               kvm_sched_out() --> kvm_vcpu_pmu_restore_host()
> >
> >         So we got wrong result.
> This is a rather vague description of the problem. AFAICT, the
> issue here is on VHE systems we wind up getting the EL0 count
> enable/disable bits backwards when entering the guest, which is
> corroborated by the data you have below.
>
> > +void arch_perf_rotate_pmu_set(void)
> > +{
> > +	if (is_guest())
> > +		kvm_vcpu_pmu_restore_guest(NULL);
> > +	else
> > +		kvm_vcpu_pmu_restore_host(NULL);
> > +}
> > +
> This sort of hook is rather nasty, and I'd strongly prefer a solution
> that's confined to KVM. I don't think the !is_guest() branch is
> necessary at all. Regardless of how the pmu context is changed, we need
> to go through vcpu_put() before getting back out to userspace.
>
> We can check for a running vCPU (ick) from kvm_set_pmu_events() and either
> do the EL0 bit flip there or make a request on the vCPU to call
> kvm_vcpu_pmu_restore_guest() immediately before reentering the guest.
> I'm slightly leaning towards the latter, unless anyone has a better idea
> here.

Thanks a lot, I will check the code about the latter one, and try to fix 
it again.


Thanks

Huang Shijie