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From: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com>
To: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>,
	Julien Thierry <julien.thierry.kdev@gmail.com>,
	Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] KVM: arm64: Add PMU event filtering infrastructure
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2020 22:01:01 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ac2a8a87-3a90-1abb-30a5-00c20667cd14@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200214183615.25498-2-maz@kernel.org>

Hi Marc,

On 2020-02-14 6:36 pm, Marc Zyngier wrote:
[...]
> @@ -585,6 +585,14 @@ static void kvm_pmu_create_perf_event(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u64 select_idx)
>   	    pmc->idx != ARMV8_PMU_CYCLE_IDX)
>   		return;
>   
> +	/*
> +	 * If we have a filter in place and that the event isn't allowed, do
> +	 * not install a perf event either.
> +	 */
> +	if (vcpu->kvm->arch.pmu_filter &&
> +	    !test_bit(eventsel, vcpu->kvm->arch.pmu_filter))
> +		return;

If I'm reading the derivation of eventsel right, this will end up 
treating cycle counter events (aliased to SW_INCR) differently from 
CPU_CYCLES, which doesn't seem desirable.

Also, if the user did try to blacklist SW_INCR for ridiculous reasons, 
we'd need to special-case kvm_pmu_software_increment() to make it (not) 
work as expected, right?

Robin.

> +
>   	memset(&attr, 0, sizeof(struct perf_event_attr));
>   	attr.type = PERF_TYPE_RAW;
>   	attr.size = sizeof(attr);

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  reply	other threads:[~2020-02-14 22:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-02-14 18:36 [PATCH 0/2] KVM: arm64: Filtering PMU events Marc Zyngier
2020-02-14 18:36 ` [PATCH 1/2] KVM: arm64: Add PMU event filtering infrastructure Marc Zyngier
2020-02-14 22:01   ` Robin Murphy [this message]
2020-02-15 10:28     ` Marc Zyngier
2020-02-17 15:33       ` Robin Murphy
2020-02-14 18:36 ` [PATCH 2/2] KVM: arm64: Document PMU filtering API Marc Zyngier
2020-02-15 13:00 ` [PATCH 0/2] KVM: arm64: Filtering PMU events Marc Zyngier

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