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From:   Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>
Date:   Tue, 23 Jun 2020 11:39:16 -0700
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM: X86: Emulate APERF/MPERF to report actual VCPU frequency
To:     Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Cc:     Like Xu <like.xu@linux.intel.com>,
        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
        kvm list <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
        Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>,
        Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@tencent.com>,
        Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>, wei.huang2@amd.com,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
        Li RongQing <lirongqing@baidu.com>,
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On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 11:29 AM Sean Christopherson
<sean.j.christopherson@intel.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 02:35:30PM +0800, Like Xu wrote:
> > The aperf/mperf are used to report current CPU frequency after 7d5905dc14a
> > "x86 / CPU: Always show current CPU frequency in /proc/cpuinfo". But guest
> > kernel always reports a fixed VCPU frequency in the /proc/cpuinfo, which
> > may confuse users especially when turbo is enabled on the host.
> >
> > Emulate guest APERF/MPERF capability based their values on the host.
> >
> > Co-developed-by: Li RongQing <lirongqing@baidu.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Li RongQing <lirongqing@baidu.com>
> > Reviewed-by: Chai Wen <chaiwen@baidu.com>
> > Reviewed-by: Jia Lina <jialina01@baidu.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Like Xu <like.xu@linux.intel.com>
> > ---
>
> ...
>
> > @@ -8312,7 +8376,7 @@ static int vcpu_enter_guest(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
> >               dm_request_for_irq_injection(vcpu) &&
> >               kvm_cpu_accept_dm_intr(vcpu);
> >       fastpath_t exit_fastpath;
> > -
> > +     u64 enter_mperf = 0, enter_aperf = 0, exit_mperf = 0, exit_aperf = 0;
> >       bool req_immediate_exit = false;
> >
> >       if (kvm_request_pending(vcpu)) {
> > @@ -8516,8 +8580,17 @@ static int vcpu_enter_guest(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
> >               vcpu->arch.switch_db_regs &= ~KVM_DEBUGREG_RELOAD;
> >       }
> >
> > +     if (unlikely(vcpu->arch.hwp.hw_coord_fb_cap))
> > +             get_host_amperf(&enter_mperf, &enter_aperf);
> > +
> >       exit_fastpath = kvm_x86_ops.run(vcpu);
> >
> > +     if (unlikely(vcpu->arch.hwp.hw_coord_fb_cap)) {
> > +             get_host_amperf(&exit_mperf, &exit_aperf);
> > +             vcpu_update_amperf(vcpu, get_amperf_delta(enter_aperf, exit_aperf),
> > +                     get_amperf_delta(enter_mperf, exit_mperf));
> > +     }
> > +
>
> Is there an alternative approach that doesn't require 4 RDMSRs on every VMX
> round trip?  That's literally more expensive than VM-Enter + VM-Exit
> combined.
>
> E.g. what about adding KVM_X86_DISABLE_EXITS_APERF_MPERF and exposing the
> MSRs for read when that capability is enabled?

When would you load the hardware MSRs with the guest/host values?