From: Punit Agrawal <punit.agrawal@arm.com>
To: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
kvm@vger.kernel.org, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 6/9] kvm: arm/arm64: Add host pmu to support VM introspection
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2017 14:51:31 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fukgmnf0.fsf@e105922-lin.cambridge.arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c2382140-b7ac-11d8-89f0-bf421e38f844@arm.com> (Marc Zyngier's message of "Wed, 18 Jan 2017 13:18:33 +0000")
Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com> writes:
> On 18/01/17 13:01, Punit Agrawal wrote:
>> Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> writes:
>>
>>> On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 11:21:21AM +0000, Marc Zyngier wrote:
>>>> On 10/01/17 11:38, Punit Agrawal wrote:
>>>>> +#define VM_MASK GENMASK_ULL(31, 0)
>>>>> +#define EVENT_MASK GENMASK_ULL(32, 39)
>>>>> +#define EVENT_SHIFT (32)
>>>>> +
>>>>> +#define to_pid(cfg) ((cfg) & VM_MASK)
>>>>> +#define to_event(cfg) (((cfg) & EVENT_MASK) >> EVENT_SHIFT)
>>>>> +
>>>>> +PMU_FORMAT_ATTR(vm, "config:0-31");
>>>>> +PMU_FORMAT_ATTR(event, "config:32-39");
>>>>
>>>> I'm a bit confused by these. Can't you get the PID of the VM you're
>>>> tracing directly from perf, without having to encode things?
>>
>> With perf attached to a PID, the event gets scheduled out when the task
>> is context switched. As the PID of the controlling process was used,
>> none of the vCPU events were counted.
>>
>>> And if you
>>>> can't, surely this should be a function of the size of pid_t?
>>
>> Agreed. I'll update above if we decide to carry on with this
>> approach. More below...
>>
>>>>
>>>> Mark, can you shine some light here?
>>>
>>> AFAICT, this is not necessary.
>>>
>>> The perf_event_open() syscall takes a PID separately from the
>>> perf_event_attr. i.e. we should be able to do:
>>>
>>> // monitor a particular vCPU
>>> perf_event_open(attr, vcpupid, -1, -1, 0)
>>>
>>> ... or ..
>>>
>>> // monitor a particular vCPU on a pCPU
>>> perf_event_open(attr, vcpupid, cpu, -1, 0)
>>>
>>> ... or ...
>>>
>>> // monitor all vCPUs on a pCPU
>>> perf_event_open(attr, -1, cpu, -1, 0)
>>>
>>> ... so this shouldn't be necessary. AFAICT, this is a SW PMU, so there
>>> should be no issue with using the perf_sw_context.
>>
>> I might have missed it but none of the modes of invoking perf_event_open
>> allow monitoring a set of process, i.e., all vcpus belonging to a
>> particular VM, which was one of the aims and a feature I was carrying
>> over from the previous version. If we do not care about this...
>>
>>>
>>> If this is a bodge to avoid opening a perf_event per vCPU thread, then I
>>> completely disagree with the approach. This would be better handled in
>>> userspace by discovering the set of threads and opening events for
>>> each.
>>
>> ... then requiring userspace to invoke perf_event_open perf vCPU will
>> simplify this patch.
>>
>> Marc, any objections?
>
> Not so far, but I'm curious to find out how you determine which thread
> is a vcpu, let alone a given vcpu.
I should've clarified in my reply that I wasn't looking to support the
third instance from Mark's examples above - "monitor all vCPUs on a
pCPU". I think it'll be quite expensive to figure out which threads from
a given pool are vCPUs.
For the other instances, we only need to find the vCPU for a given
pid. Userspace will hand us a pid that needs to be checked against vCPUs
to establish that it is a valid vCPU pid (here I was looking to use
kvm_vcpu->pid and kvm->pid introduced in Patch 2).
This will happen when setting up the event and the vCPU can be cached
for later use.
>
> Thanks,
>
> M.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-01-18 15:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-01-10 11:38 [PATCH v3 0/9] Add support for monitoring guest TLB operations Punit Agrawal
2017-01-10 11:38 ` [PATCH v3 1/9] arm64/kvm: hyp: tlb: use __tlbi() helper Punit Agrawal
2017-01-10 11:38 ` [PATCH v3 2/9] KVM: Track the pid of the VM process Punit Agrawal
2017-01-10 11:38 ` [PATCH v3 3/9] KVM: Add event to trace tlb invalidations Punit Agrawal
2017-01-10 11:38 ` [PATCH v3 4/9] arm: KVM: Handle trappable TLB instructions Punit Agrawal
2017-01-10 11:38 ` [PATCH v3 5/9] arm64: " Punit Agrawal
2017-01-10 11:38 ` [PATCH v3 6/9] kvm: arm/arm64: Add host pmu to support VM introspection Punit Agrawal
2017-01-18 11:21 ` Marc Zyngier
2017-01-18 11:35 ` Mark Rutland
2017-01-18 13:01 ` Punit Agrawal
2017-01-18 13:18 ` Marc Zyngier
2017-01-18 14:51 ` Punit Agrawal [this message]
2017-01-18 15:17 ` Mark Rutland
2017-01-18 16:17 ` Punit Agrawal
2017-01-18 18:05 ` Mark Rutland
2017-01-19 16:42 ` Christoffer Dall
2017-01-23 11:21 ` Punit Agrawal
2017-01-18 13:45 ` Will Deacon
2017-01-18 14:58 ` Punit Agrawal
2017-01-18 13:06 ` Punit Agrawal
2017-01-10 11:38 ` [PATCH v3 7/9] kvm: host_pmu: Add support for tracking guest TLB operations Punit Agrawal
2017-01-10 11:38 ` [PATCH v3 8/9] arm: KVM: Enable support for host pmu Punit Agrawal
2017-01-10 11:38 ` [PATCH v3 9/9] arm64: KVM: Enable support for the " Punit Agrawal
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