From: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
To: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Cc: "Tamas K Lengyel" <tamas.lengyel@intel.com>,
"Roger Pau Monné" <roger.pau@citrix.com>, "Wei Liu" <wl@xen.org>,
"Jun Nakajima" <jun.nakajima@intel.com>,
"Kevin Tian" <kevin.tian@intel.com>,
"Michał Leszczyński" <michal.leszczynski@cert.pl>,
"Tamas K Lengyel" <tamas@tklengyel.com>,
Xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 10/10] x86/vm_event: Carry Processor Trace buffer offset in vm_event
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2021 15:27:09 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c00b60c5-ba4a-7473-cf26-60b46681279a@suse.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210121212718.2441-11-andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
On 21.01.2021 22:27, Andrew Cooper wrote:
> --- a/xen/arch/x86/vm_event.c
> +++ b/xen/arch/x86/vm_event.c
> @@ -251,6 +251,9 @@ void vm_event_fill_regs(vm_event_request_t *req)
>
> req->data.regs.x86.shadow_gs = ctxt.shadow_gs;
> req->data.regs.x86.dr6 = ctxt.dr6;
> +
> + if ( hvm_vmtrace_output_position(curr, &req->data.regs.x86.pt_offset) != 1 )
> + req->data.regs.x86.pt_offset = ~0;
Ah. (Regarding my earlier question about this returning -errno or
boolean).
> --- a/xen/include/public/vm_event.h
> +++ b/xen/include/public/vm_event.h
> @@ -223,6 +223,12 @@ struct vm_event_regs_x86 {
> */
> uint64_t npt_base;
>
> + /*
> + * Current offset in the Processor Trace buffer. For Intel Processor Trace
> + * this is MSR_RTIT_OUTPUT_MASK. Set to ~0 if no Processor Trace is active.
> + */
> + uint64_t pt_offset;
According to vmtrace_output_position() the value is only one half
of what the named MSR contains. Perhaps "... this is from MSR_..."?
Not sure whether, despite this, there still is a reason to have
this 64-bit wide.
Jan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-01-26 14:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-01-21 21:27 [PATCH v7 00/10] Implement support for external IPT monitoring Andrew Cooper
2021-01-21 21:27 ` [PATCH v7 01/10] xen+tools: Introduce XEN_SYSCTL_PHYSCAP_vmtrace Andrew Cooper
2021-01-22 15:28 ` Ian Jackson
2021-01-26 8:58 ` Julien Grall
2021-01-26 10:04 ` Andrew Cooper
2021-01-21 21:27 ` [PATCH v7 02/10] xen/domain: Add vmtrace_frames domain creation parameter Andrew Cooper
2021-01-25 15:08 ` Jan Beulich
2021-01-25 17:17 ` Andrew Cooper
2021-01-26 10:51 ` Jan Beulich
2021-01-29 16:37 ` Jan Beulich
2021-01-21 21:27 ` [PATCH v7 03/10] tools/[lib]xl: Add vmtrace_buf_size parameter Andrew Cooper
2021-01-22 15:29 ` Ian Jackson
2021-01-21 21:27 ` [PATCH v7 04/10] xen/memory: Add a vmtrace_buf resource type Andrew Cooper
2021-01-25 16:31 ` Jan Beulich
2021-01-26 7:37 ` Jan Beulich
2021-01-26 9:58 ` Andrew Cooper
2021-01-26 10:30 ` Jan Beulich
2021-01-21 21:27 ` [PATCH v7 05/10] x86/vmx: Add Intel Processor Trace support Andrew Cooper
2021-01-26 13:35 ` Jan Beulich
2021-01-29 22:08 ` Andrew Cooper
2021-01-21 21:27 ` [PATCH v7 06/10] xen/domctl: Add XEN_DOMCTL_vmtrace_op Andrew Cooper
2021-01-26 14:18 ` Jan Beulich
2021-01-29 23:01 ` Andrew Cooper
2021-01-21 21:27 ` [PATCH v7 07/10] tools/libxc: Add xc_vmtrace_* functions Andrew Cooper
2021-01-22 15:29 ` Ian Jackson
2021-01-21 21:27 ` [PATCH v7 08/10] tools/misc: Add xen-vmtrace tool Andrew Cooper
2021-01-22 15:33 ` Ian Jackson
2021-01-25 15:30 ` Andrew Cooper
2021-01-26 11:59 ` Ian Jackson
2021-01-26 12:55 ` Andrew Cooper
2021-01-26 13:32 ` Ian Jackson
2021-01-26 15:59 ` Andrew Cooper
2021-01-21 21:27 ` [PATCH v7 09/10] xen/vmtrace: support for VM forks Andrew Cooper
2021-01-26 14:21 ` Jan Beulich
2021-01-27 15:50 ` Lengyel, Tamas
2021-01-21 21:27 ` [PATCH v7 10/10] x86/vm_event: Carry Processor Trace buffer offset in vm_event Andrew Cooper
2021-01-26 14:27 ` Jan Beulich [this message]
2021-01-29 23:22 ` Andrew Cooper
2021-01-29 23:40 ` Tamas K Lengyel
2021-02-01 8:55 ` Jan Beulich
2021-02-01 9:06 ` Andrew Cooper
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