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From: Arnabjyoti Kalita <akalita@cs.stonybrook.edu>
To: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Intercepting RDTSC instruction by causing a VMEXIT
Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2021 10:24:16 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJGDS+GKd_YR9QmTR-6KsiE16=4s8fuqh8pmQTYnxHXS=mYp9g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

Hello all,

I'm having a requirement to record values obtained by reading tsc clock.

The command line I use to start QEMU in KVM mode is as below -

sudo ./qemu-system-x86_64 -m 1024 --machine pc-i440fx-2.5 -cpu
qemu64,-vme,-x2apic,-kvmclock,+lahf_lm,+3dnowprefetch,+vmx -enable-kvm
-netdev tap,id=tap1,ifname=tap0,script=no,downscript=no -device
virtio-net-pci,netdev=tap1,mac=00:00:00:00:00:00 -drive
file=~/os_images_for_qemu/ubuntu-16.04.server.qcow2,format=qcow2,if=none,id=img-direct
-device virtio-blk-pci,drive=img-direct

I am using QEMU version 2.11.92 and the guest kernel is a
4.4.0-116-generic. I use the CPU model "qemu64" because I have a
requirement to create a snapshot of this guest and load the snapshot
in TCG mode. The generic CPU model helps, in this regard.

Now when the guest is running, I want to intercept all rdtsc
instructions and record the tsc clock values. I know that for this to
happen, the CPU_BASED_RDTSC_EXITING flag needs to exist for the
particular CPU model.

How do I start adding support for causing VMEXIT upon rdtsc execution?

I see that a fairly recent commit in QEMU helps adding nested VMX
controls to named CPU models, but not "qemu64". Can I extend this
commit to add these controls to "qemu64" as well? Will making this
change immediately add support for intercepting VMEXITS for "qemu64"
CPU?

Thank you very much.

Best Regards,
Arnabjyoti Kalita

             reply	other threads:[~2021-04-17  4:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-04-17  4:54 Arnabjyoti Kalita [this message]
2021-04-19 16:46 ` Intercepting RDTSC instruction by causing a VMEXIT Sean Christopherson
2021-04-20  2:33   ` Arnabjyoti Kalita
     [not found]     ` <CAJGDS+GT1mKHz6K=qHQf54S_97ym=nRP12MfO6OSEOpLYGht=A@mail.gmail.com>
2021-04-26  1:51       ` Arnabjyoti Kalita
2021-04-26 16:05       ` Sean Christopherson
2021-04-27  2:19         ` Arnabjyoti Kalita
2021-04-30 17:16           ` Arnabjyoti Kalita
2024-01-01 22:06             ` obtain the timestamp counter of physical/host machine inside the VMs Tao Lyu
2024-01-02  5:11               ` Dongli Zhang
2024-01-02 10:10                 ` Tao Lyu
2024-01-02 17:53                   ` Sean Christopherson
2024-01-02 18:20                     ` Tao Lyu
2024-01-02 19:36                       ` Dongli Zhang

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