From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-6.7 required=3.0 tests=DKIMWL_WL_HIGH,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,INCLUDES_PATCH,MAILING_LIST_MULTI, SIGNED_OFF_BY,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BAC4C31E46 for ; Wed, 12 Jun 2019 14:00:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from bombadil.infradead.org (bombadil.infradead.org [198.137.202.133]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6BA9520896 for ; Wed, 12 Jun 2019 14:00:01 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=lists.infradead.org header.i=@lists.infradead.org header.b="mj9iyAGS" DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 mail.kernel.org 6BA9520896 Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=huawei.com Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; spf=none smtp.mailfrom=linux-arm-kernel-bounces+infradead-linux-arm-kernel=archiver.kernel.org@lists.infradead.org DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=lists.infradead.org; s=bombadil.20170209; h=Sender: Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Type:Cc:List-Subscribe:List-Help:List-Post: List-Archive:List-Unsubscribe:List-Id:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Date: Message-ID:References:To:Subject:From:Reply-To:Content-ID:Content-Description :Resent-Date:Resent-From:Resent-Sender:Resent-To:Resent-Cc:Resent-Message-ID: List-Owner; bh=Y0UquIQXy9F7LVUGMGYNQHU3dwIHnpkBI45BhCY+aeI=; b=mj9iyAGSXEd68N NEEfl0QSfjYCc3ckZ3ekNJGaoxw+yYaJP9DRX4aWAA6a/hjKrXdDH5J0rZUUAFSKGK7IdVvEfScM1 D98Ef6XuZi5giDPHdzW6TklPdCAsfj7PXbDu8oDU4/G7xE79E4MyWaYah8vvSHgS5frDPFC5bpoII pYxtWdDW4ROQIZjrksWqDVdvHgboE3jHBhqfp8BY+uQnyeuS0JYxUN0JpqPU7rmZ8f9nDM4b+BgYO BD8YBRdT3B36A4+EaadMxH6uSC3titlwAOngEpHddaNlL+RFT1zyz1+6u7y2b8UjOytldEZGOicDP 7eN6oNmPMKZhtHC6tznw==; Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=bombadil.infradead.org) by bombadil.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 4.92 #3 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1hb3n6-0000rJ-Fc; Wed, 12 Jun 2019 13:59:52 +0000 Received: from szxga06-in.huawei.com ([45.249.212.32] helo=huawei.com) by bombadil.infradead.org with esmtps (Exim 4.92 #3 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1hb3n2-0000fE-72 for linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org; Wed, 12 Jun 2019 13:59:50 +0000 Received: from DGGEMS410-HUB.china.huawei.com (unknown [172.30.72.60]) by Forcepoint Email with ESMTP id F36B1AAB7E15BB89D9AB; Wed, 12 Jun 2019 21:47:25 +0800 (CST) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (10.177.29.32) by DGGEMS410-HUB.china.huawei.com (10.3.19.210) with Microsoft SMTP Server id 14.3.439.0; Wed, 12 Jun 2019 21:47:19 +0800 From: Xiang Zheng Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM: ARM64: Update perf event when setting PMU count value To: Andrew Murray References: <20190519100559.7188-1-zhengxiang9@huawei.com> <20190521164445.GW8268@e119886-lin.cambridge.arm.com> Message-ID: <482838e5-64a4-ef99-2e51-4b58e18ba4b4@huawei.com> Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2019 21:47:05 +0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:64.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/64.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20190521164445.GW8268@e119886-lin.cambridge.arm.com> Content-Language: en-US X-Originating-IP: [10.177.29.32] X-CFilter-Loop: Reflected X-CRM114-Version: 20100106-BlameMichelson ( TRE 0.8.0 (BSD) ) MR-646709E3 X-CRM114-CacheID: sfid-20190612_065948_501335_64A6E5C4 X-CRM114-Status: GOOD ( 21.99 ) X-BeenThere: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: marc.zyngier@arm.com, Wang Haibin , kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: "linux-arm-kernel" Errors-To: linux-arm-kernel-bounces+infradead-linux-arm-kernel=archiver.kernel.org@lists.infradead.org On 2019/5/22 0:44, Andrew Murray wrote: > On Sun, May 19, 2019 at 06:05:59PM +0800, Xiang Zheng wrote: >> Guest will adjust the sample period and set PMU counter value when >> it takes a long time to handle the PMU interrupts. >> >> However, we don't have a corresponding change on the virtual PMU >> which is emulated via a perf event. It could cause a large number >> of PMU interrupts injected to guest. Then guest will get hang for >> handling these interrupts. > > Yes this is indeed an issue. I believe I've addressed this in my 'chained > pmu' series - the relevant patch is here... > > https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/pipermail/kvmarm/2019-May/035933.html > > Some other comments below. > Sorry for that I didn't notice your patches... I will test your patch series. >> >> So update the sample_period of perf event if the counter value is >> changed to avoid this case. >> >> Signed-off-by: Xiang Zheng >> --- >> virt/kvm/arm/pmu.c | 54 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------- >> 1 file changed, 45 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) >> >> diff --git a/virt/kvm/arm/pmu.c b/virt/kvm/arm/pmu.c >> index 1c5b76c..cbad3ec 100644 >> --- a/virt/kvm/arm/pmu.c >> +++ b/virt/kvm/arm/pmu.c >> @@ -24,6 +24,11 @@ >> #include >> #include >> >> +static void kvm_pmu_stop_counter(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct kvm_pmc *pmc); >> +static struct perf_event *kvm_pmu_create_perf_event(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, >> + struct kvm_pmc *pmc, >> + struct perf_event_attr *attr); >> + >> /** >> * kvm_pmu_get_counter_value - get PMU counter value >> * @vcpu: The vcpu pointer >> @@ -57,11 +62,29 @@ u64 kvm_pmu_get_counter_value(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u64 select_idx) >> */ >> void kvm_pmu_set_counter_value(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u64 select_idx, u64 val) >> { >> - u64 reg; >> + u64 reg, counter, old_sample_period; >> + struct kvm_pmu *pmu = &vcpu->arch.pmu; >> + struct kvm_pmc *pmc = &pmu->pmc[select_idx]; >> + struct perf_event *event; >> + struct perf_event_attr attr; >> >> reg = (select_idx == ARMV8_PMU_CYCLE_IDX) >> ? PMCCNTR_EL0 : PMEVCNTR0_EL0 + select_idx; >> __vcpu_sys_reg(vcpu, reg) += (s64)val - kvm_pmu_get_counter_value(vcpu, select_idx); >> + >> + if (pmc->perf_event) { >> + attr = pmc->perf_event->attr; >> + old_sample_period = attr.sample_period; >> + counter = kvm_pmu_get_counter_value(vcpu, select_idx); >> + attr.sample_period = (-counter) & pmc->bitmask; >> + if (attr.sample_period == old_sample_period) >> + return; > > I'd be interested to know how often this would evaluate to true. > I have counted it while running my test script, the result shows that there are 1552288 times evaluated to true and 8294235 times not. I think different testcases may produce different results. >> + >> + kvm_pmu_stop_counter(vcpu, pmc); >> + event = kvm_pmu_create_perf_event(vcpu, pmc, &attr); > > I'm not sure it's necessary to change the prototype of kvm_pmu_create_perf_event > as this function will recalculate the sample period based on the updated counter > value anyway. > In this patch, kvm_pmu_create_perf_event() will not recalculate the sample period. Maybe you confuse it with your patch.:) > Thanks, > > Andrew Murray > >> + if (event) >> + pmc->perf_event = event; >> + } >> } >> >> /** >> @@ -303,6 +326,24 @@ static void kvm_pmu_perf_overflow(struct perf_event *perf_event, >> } >> } >> >> +static struct perf_event *kvm_pmu_create_perf_event(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, >> + struct kvm_pmc *pmc, >> + struct perf_event_attr *attr) >> +{ >> + struct perf_event *event; >> + >> + event = perf_event_create_kernel_counter(attr, -1, current, >> + kvm_pmu_perf_overflow, pmc); >> + >> + if (IS_ERR(event)) { >> + pr_err_once("kvm: pmu event creation failed %ld\n", >> + PTR_ERR(event)); >> + return NULL; >> + } >> + >> + return event; >> +} >> + >> /** >> * kvm_pmu_software_increment - do software increment >> * @vcpu: The vcpu pointer >> @@ -416,15 +457,10 @@ void kvm_pmu_set_counter_event_type(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u64 data, >> /* The initial sample period (overflow count) of an event. */ >> attr.sample_period = (-counter) & pmc->bitmask; >> >> - event = perf_event_create_kernel_counter(&attr, -1, current, >> - kvm_pmu_perf_overflow, pmc); >> - if (IS_ERR(event)) { >> - pr_err_once("kvm: pmu event creation failed %ld\n", >> - PTR_ERR(event)); >> - return; >> - } >> + event = kvm_pmu_create_perf_event(vcpu, pmc, &attr); >> >> - pmc->perf_event = event; >> + if (event) >> + pmc->perf_event = event; >> } >> >> bool kvm_arm_support_pmu_v3(void) >> -- >> 1.8.3.1 >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> kvmarm mailing list >> kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu >> https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/kvmarm > > . > -- Thanks, Xiang _______________________________________________ linux-arm-kernel mailing list linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-arm-kernel