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Date:   Mon, 17 May 2021 21:19:00 +0000
From:   Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
To:     Venkatesh Srinivas <venkateshs@chromium.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 04/16] KVM: x86/pmu: Set MSR_IA32_MISC_ENABLE_EMON bit
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On Mon, May 17, 2021, Venkatesh Srinivas wrote:
> Should this bit be conditional on the host having it set?

No need, KVM advertises the architectural PMU to userspace iff hardware itself
has an architecture PMU.  Userspace is free to lie to its guests so long as doing
so doesn't put KVM at risk.