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Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 00/16] KVM: x86/pmu: Add *basic* support to enable
 guest PEBS via DS
To:     Like Xu <like.xu@linux.intel.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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From:   Liuxiangdong <liuxiangdong5@huawei.com>
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Date:   Sat, 15 May 2021 18:30:15 +0800
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On 2021/5/11 10:41, Like Xu wrote:
> A new kernel cycle has begun, and this version looks promising.
>
> The guest Precise Event Based Sampling (PEBS) feature can provide
> an architectural state of the instruction executed after the guest
> instruction that exactly caused the event. It needs new hardware
> facility only available on Intel Ice Lake Server platforms. This
> patch set enables the basic PEBS feature for KVM guests on ICX.
>
> We can use PEBS feature on the Linux guest like native:
>
>    # perf record -e instructions:ppp ./br_instr a
>    # perf record -c 100000 -e instructions:pp ./br_instr a

Hi, Like.
Has the qemu patch been modified?

https://lore.kernel.org/kvm/f4dcb068-2ddf-428f-50ad-39f65cad3710@intel.com/ 
?


> To emulate guest PEBS facility for the above perf usages,
> we need to implement 2 code paths:
>
> 1) Fast path
>
> This is when the host assigned physical PMC has an identical index as
> the virtual PMC (e.g. using physical PMC0 to emulate virtual PMC0).
> This path is used in most common use cases.
>
> 2) Slow path
>
> This is when the host assigned physical PMC has a different index
> from the virtual PMC (e.g. using physical PMC1 to emulate virtual PMC0)
> In this case, KVM needs to rewrite the PEBS records to change the
> applicable counter indexes to the virtual PMC indexes, which would
> otherwise contain the physical counter index written by PEBS facility,
> and switch the counter reset values to the offset corresponding to
> the physical counter indexes in the DS data structure.
>
> The previous version [0] enables both fast path and slow path, which
> seems a bit more complex as the first step. In this patchset, we want
> to start with the fast path to get the basic guest PEBS enabled while
> keeping the slow path disabled. More focused discussion on the slow
> path [1] is planned to be put to another patchset in the next step.
>
> Compared to later versions in subsequent steps, the functionality
> to support host-guest PEBS both enabled and the functionality to
> emulate guest PEBS when the counter is cross-mapped are missing
> in this patch set (neither of these are typical scenarios).
>
> With the basic support, the guest can retrieve the correct PEBS
> information from its own PEBS records on the Ice Lake servers.
> And we expect it should work when migrating to another Ice Lake
> and no regression about host perf is expected.
>
> Here are the results of pebs test from guest/host for same workload:
>
> perf report on guest:
> # Samples: 2K of event 'instructions:ppp', # Event count (approx.): 1473377250
> # Overhead  Command   Shared Object      Symbol
>    57.74%  br_instr  br_instr           [.] lfsr_cond
>    41.40%  br_instr  br_instr           [.] cmp_end
>     0.21%  br_instr  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] __lock_acquire
>
> perf report on host:
> # Samples: 2K of event 'instructions:ppp', # Event count (approx.): 1462721386
> # Overhead  Command   Shared Object     Symbol
>    57.90%  br_instr  br_instr          [.] lfsr_cond
>    41.95%  br_instr  br_instr          [.] cmp_end
>     0.05%  br_instr  [kernel.vmlinux]  [k] lock_acquire
>     Conclusion: the profiling results on the guest are similar tothat on the host.
>
> A minimum guest kernel version may be v5.4 or a backport version
> support Icelake server PEBS.
>
> Please check more details in each commit and feel free to comment.
>
> Previous:
> https://lore.kernel.org/kvm/20210415032016.166201-1-like.xu@linux.intel.com/
>
> [0] https://lore.kernel.org/kvm/20210104131542.495413-1-like.xu@linux.intel.com/
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/kvm/20210115191113.nktlnmivc3edstiv@two.firstfloor.org/
>
> V5 -> V6 Changelog:
> - Rebased on the latest kvm/queue tree;
> - Fix a git rebase issue (Liuxiangdong);
> - Adjust the patch sequence 06/07 for bisection (Liuxiangdong);
>
> Like Xu (16):
>    perf/x86/intel: Add EPT-Friendly PEBS for Ice Lake Server
>    perf/x86/intel: Handle guest PEBS overflow PMI for KVM guest
>    perf/x86/core: Pass "struct kvm_pmu *" to determine the guest values
>    KVM: x86/pmu: Set MSR_IA32_MISC_ENABLE_EMON bit when vPMU is enabled
>    KVM: x86/pmu: Introduce the ctrl_mask value for fixed counter
>    KVM: x86/pmu: Add IA32_PEBS_ENABLE MSR emulation for extended PEBS
>    KVM: x86/pmu: Reprogram PEBS event to emulate guest PEBS counter
>    KVM: x86/pmu: Add IA32_DS_AREA MSR emulation to support guest DS
>    KVM: x86/pmu: Add PEBS_DATA_CFG MSR emulation to support adaptive PEBS
>    KVM: x86: Set PEBS_UNAVAIL in IA32_MISC_ENABLE when PEBS is enabled
>    KVM: x86/pmu: Adjust precise_ip to emulate Ice Lake guest PDIR counter
>    KVM: x86/pmu: Move pmc_speculative_in_use() to arch/x86/kvm/pmu.h
>    KVM: x86/pmu: Disable guest PEBS temporarily in two rare situations
>    KVM: x86/pmu: Add kvm_pmu_cap to optimize perf_get_x86_pmu_capability
>    KVM: x86/cpuid: Refactor host/guest CPU model consistency check
>    KVM: x86/pmu: Expose CPUIDs feature bits PDCM, DS, DTES64
>
>   arch/x86/events/core.c            |   5 +-
>   arch/x86/events/intel/core.c      | 129 ++++++++++++++++++++++++------
>   arch/x86/events/perf_event.h      |   5 +-
>   arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h   |  16 ++++
>   arch/x86/include/asm/msr-index.h  |   6 ++
>   arch/x86/include/asm/perf_event.h |   5 +-
>   arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c              |  24 ++----
>   arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.h              |   5 ++
>   arch/x86/kvm/pmu.c                |  50 +++++++++---
>   arch/x86/kvm/pmu.h                |  38 +++++++++
>   arch/x86/kvm/vmx/capabilities.h   |  26 ++++--
>   arch/x86/kvm/vmx/pmu_intel.c      | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++-----
>   arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c            |  24 +++++-
>   arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.h            |   2 +-
>   arch/x86/kvm/x86.c                |  14 ++--
>   15 files changed, 368 insertions(+), 96 deletions(-)
>