Re: [PATCH 0/5] KVM: selftests: Fix PMC checks in PMU counters test

[Sean Christopherson]

On Fri, 17 Jan 2025 15:41:58 -0800, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> Fix a flaw in the Intel PMU counters test where it asserts that an event is
> counting correctly without actually knowing what the event counts given the
> underlying hardware.
> 
> The bug manifests as failures with the Top-Down Slots architectural event
> when running CPUs that doesn't actually support that arch event (pre-ICX).
> The arch event encoding still counts _something_, just not Top-Down Slots
> (I haven't bothered to look up what it was counting).  The passed by sheer
> dumb luck until an unrelated change caused the count of the unknown event
> to drop.
> 
> [...]

In case Paolo ends up grabbing the version I applied...
https://lore.kernel.org/all/Z6_dZTbQbgr2iY6Q@xxxxxxxxxx

Applied to kvm-x86 selftests_6.14.

[1/5] KVM: selftests: Make Intel arch events globally available in PMU counters test
      https://github.com/kvm-x86/linux/commit/933178ddf73a
[2/5] KVM: selftests: Only validate counts for hardware-supported arch events
      https://github.com/kvm-x86/linux/commit/8752e2b4a2b7
[3/5] KVM: selftests: Remove dead code in Intel PMU counters test
      https://github.com/kvm-x86/linux/commit/e327630e2a0c
[4/5] KVM: selftests: Drop the "feature event" param from guest test helpers
      https://github.com/kvm-x86/linux/commit/0e6714735c01
[5/5] KVM: selftests: Print out the actual Top-Down Slots count on failure
      https://github.com/kvm-x86/linux/commit/54108e733444

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