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Date:   Tue, 5 Jan 2021 13:16:11 -0800
From:   Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
To:     Like Xu <like.xu@linux.intel.com>
Cc:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>, eranian@google.com,
        kvm@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
        Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>,
        Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@tencent.com>,
        Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>,
        Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>,
        Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
        Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>, wei.w.wang@intel.com,
        luwei.kang@intel.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 07/17] KVM: x86/pmu: Add IA32_DS_AREA MSR emulation to
 manage guest DS buffer
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 <20210104131542.495413-8-like.xu@linux.intel.com>
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On Mon, Jan 04, 2021, Like Xu wrote:
> When CPUID.01H:EDX.DS[21] is set, the IA32_DS_AREA MSR exists and
> points to the linear address of the first byte of the DS buffer
> management area, which is used to manage the PEBS records.
> 
> When guest PEBS is enabled and the value is different from the
> host, KVM will add the IA32_DS_AREA MSR to the msr-switch list.
> The guest's DS value can be loaded to the real HW before VM-entry,
> and will be removed when guest PEBS is disabled.
> 
> The WRMSR to IA32_DS_AREA MSR brings a #GP(0) if the source register
> contains a non-canonical address. The switch of IA32_DS_AREA MSR would
> also, setup a quiescent period to write the host PEBS records (if any)
> to host DS area rather than guest DS area.
> 
> When guest PEBS is enabled, the MSR_IA32_DS_AREA MSR will be
> added to the perf_guest_switch_msr() and switched during the
> VMX transitions just like CORE_PERF_GLOBAL_CTRL MSR.
> 
> Originally-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
> Co-developed-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Like Xu <like.xu@linux.intel.com>
> ---
>  arch/x86/events/intel/core.c    | 13 +++++++++++++
>  arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h |  1 +
>  arch/x86/kvm/vmx/pmu_intel.c    | 11 +++++++++++
>  arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c          |  6 ++++++
>  4 files changed, 31 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/events/intel/core.c b/arch/x86/events/intel/core.c
> index 6453b8a6834a..ccddda455bec 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/events/intel/core.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/events/intel/core.c
> @@ -3690,6 +3690,7 @@ static struct perf_guest_switch_msr *intel_guest_get_msrs(int *nr)
>  {
>  	struct cpu_hw_events *cpuc = this_cpu_ptr(&cpu_hw_events);
>  	struct perf_guest_switch_msr *arr = cpuc->guest_switch_msrs;
> +	struct debug_store *ds = __this_cpu_read(cpu_hw_events.ds);
>  
>  	arr[0].msr = MSR_CORE_PERF_GLOBAL_CTRL;
>  	arr[0].host = x86_pmu.intel_ctrl & ~cpuc->intel_ctrl_guest_mask;
> @@ -3735,6 +3736,18 @@ static struct perf_guest_switch_msr *intel_guest_get_msrs(int *nr)
>  		*nr = 2;
>  	}
>  
> +	if (arr[1].guest) {
> +		arr[2].msr = MSR_IA32_DS_AREA;
> +		arr[2].host = (unsigned long)ds;
> +		/* KVM will update MSR_IA32_DS_AREA with the trapped guest value. */
> +		arr[2].guest = 0ull;
> +		*nr = 3;
> +	} else if (*nr == 2) {
> +		arr[2].msr = MSR_IA32_DS_AREA;
> +		arr[2].host = arr[2].guest = 0;
> +		*nr = 3;
> +	}

Similar comments as the previous patch, please figure out a way to properly
integrate this into the PEBS logic instead of querying arr/nr.

> +
>  	return arr;
>  }