[PATCH v2 0/7] KVM: x86: Intel PERF_CAPABILITIES fixes and cleanups

From: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>,
	Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>,
	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
	Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>,
	Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>, Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>,
	linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org, Like Xu <like.xu.linux@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 0/7] KVM: x86: Intel PERF_CAPABILITIES fixes and cleanups
Date: Wed,  3 Aug 2022 19:26:51 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220803192658.860033-1-seanjc@google.com> (raw)

Bug fixes and cleanups related to KVM's handling of PERF_CAPABILITIES.

Bug #1 - Refresh KVM's vPMU after userspace writes PERF_CAPABILITIES, and
then leverage that fix to avoiding checking guest_cpuid_has(X86_FEATURE_PDCM)
during VM-Enter, which is slow enough that it shows up in perf traces[*].

Bug #2 - Don't advertise PMU_CAP_LBR_FMT to userspace if perf has disabled
LBRs, e.g. because probing one or more LBR MSRs during setup hit a #GP.

The non-KVM patches remove unnecessary stubs and unreachable error paths,
which allows for a cleaner fix for bug #2.

[*] https://gist.github.com/avagin/f50a6d569440c9ae382281448c187f4e

v2:
 - Add patches to fix bug #2. [Like]
 - Add a patch to clean up the capability check.
 - Tweak the changelog for the PMU refresh bug fix to call out that
   KVM should disallow changing feature MSRs after KVM_RUN. [Like]

v1: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220727233424.2968356-1-seanjc@google.com

Sean Christopherson (7):
  KVM: x86: Refresh PMU after writes to MSR_IA32_PERF_CAPABILITIES
  perf/x86/core: Remove unnecessary stubs provided for KVM-only helpers
  perf/x86/core: Drop the unnecessary return value from
    x86_perf_get_lbr()
  KVM: VMX: Advertise PMU LBRs if and only if perf supports LBRs
  KVM: VMX: Use proper type-safe functions for vCPU => LBRs helpers
  KVM: VMX: Adjust number of LBR records for PERF_CAPABILITIES at
    refresh
  KVM: VMX: Simplify capability check when handling PERF_CAPABILITIES
    write

 arch/x86/events/intel/lbr.c       |  6 +---
 arch/x86/include/asm/perf_event.h | 55 ++++++++-----------------------
 arch/x86/kvm/vmx/capabilities.h   |  5 ++-
 arch/x86/kvm/vmx/pmu_intel.c      | 12 ++-----
 arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c            |  6 ++--
 arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.h            | 53 +++++++++++++++++------------
 arch/x86/kvm/x86.c                |  4 +--
 7 files changed, 58 insertions(+), 83 deletions(-)

base-commit: 93472b79715378a2386598d6632c654a2223267b
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2.37.1.559.g78731f0fdb-goog