Don't handle exits in the fastpath if emulation is required, i.e. if an
instruction needs to be skipped, the mediated PMU is enabled, and one or
more PMCs is counting instructions. With the mediated PMU, KVM's cache of
PMU state is inconsistent with respect to hardware until KVM exits the
inner run loop (when the mediated PMU is "put").
Reviewed-by: Sandipan Das <sandipan.das@amd.com>
Tested-by: Xudong Hao <xudong.hao@intel.com>
Tested-by: Manali Shukla <manali.shukla@amd.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251206001720.468579-29-seanjc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Implement the PMU "world switch" between host perf and guest mediated PMU.
When loading guest state, call into perf to switch from host to guest, and
then load guest state into hardware, and then reverse those actions when
putting guest state.
On the KVM side, when loading guest state, zero PERF_GLOBAL_CTRL to ensure
all counters are disabled, then load selectors and counters, and finally
call into vendor code to load control/status information. While VMX and
SVM use different mechanisms to avoid counting host activity while guest
controls are loaded, both implementations require PERF_GLOBAL_CTRL to be
zeroed when the event selectors are in flux.
When putting guest state, reverse the order, and save and zero controls
and status prior to saving+zeroing selectors and counters. Defer clearing
PERF_GLOBAL_CTRL to vendor code, as only SVM needs to manually clear the
MSR; VMX configures PERF_GLOBAL_CTRL to be atomically cleared by the CPU
on VM-Exit.
Handle the difference in MSR layouts between Intel and AMD by communicating
the bases and stride via kvm_pmu_ops. Because KVM requires Intel v4 (and
full-width writes) and AMD v2, the MSRs to load/save are constant for a
given vendor, i.e. do not vary based on the guest PMU, and do not vary
based on host PMU (because KVM will simply disable mediated PMU support if
the necessary MSRs are unsupported).
Except for retrieving the guest's PERF_GLOBAL_CTRL, which needs to be read
before invoking any fastpath handler (spoiler alert), perform the context
switch around KVM's inner run loop. State only needs to be synchronized
from hardware before KVM can access the software "caches".
Note, VMX already grabs the guest's PERF_GLOBAL_CTRL immediately after
VM-Exit, as hardware saves value into the VMCS.
Co-developed-by: Mingwei Zhang <mizhang@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Mingwei Zhang <mizhang@google.com>
Co-developed-by: Sandipan Das <sandipan.das@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Sandipan Das <sandipan.das@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Dapeng Mi <dapeng1.mi@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: Xudong Hao <xudong.hao@intel.com>
Co-developed-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Tested-by: Manali Shukla <manali.shukla@amd.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251206001720.468579-28-seanjc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
On AMD platforms, there is no way to restore PerfCntrGlobalCtl at
VM-Entry or clear it at VM-Exit. Since the register states will be
restored before entering and saved after exiting guest context, the
counters can keep ticking and even overflow leading to chaos while
still in host context.
To avoid this, intecept event selectors, which is already done by mediated
PMU. In addition, always set the GuestOnly bit and clear the HostOnly bit
for PMU selectors on AMD. Doing so allows the counters run only in guest
context even if their enable bits are still set after VM exit and before
host/guest PMU context switch.
Signed-off-by: Sandipan Das <sandipan.das@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Mingwei Zhang <mizhang@google.com>
[sean: massage shortlog]
Tested-by: Xudong Hao <xudong.hao@intel.com>
Tested-by: Manali Shukla <manali.shukla@amd.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251206001720.468579-27-seanjc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Refresh the event selectors that are programmed into hardware when a PMC
is "reprogrammed" for a mediated PMU, i.e. if userspace changes the PMU
event filters
Note, KVM doesn't utilize the reprogramming infrastructure to handle
counter overflow for mediated PMUs, as there's no need to reprogram a
non-existent perf event.
Suggested-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Dapeng Mi <dapeng1.mi@linux.intel.com>
Co-developed-by: Mingwei Zhang <mizhang@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Mingwei Zhang <mizhang@google.com>
[sean: add a helper to document behavior, split patch and rewrite changelog]
Tested-by: Xudong Hao <xudong.hao@intel.com>
Tested-by: Manali Shukla <manali.shukla@amd.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251206001720.468579-26-seanjc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Introduce eventsel_hw and fixed_ctr_ctrl_hw to store the actual HW value in
PMU event selector MSRs. In mediated PMU checks events before allowing the
event values written to the PMU MSRs. However, to match the HW behavior,
when PMU event checks fails, KVM should allow guest to read the value back.
This essentially requires an extra variable to separate the guest requested
value from actual PMU MSR value. Note this only applies to event selectors.
Signed-off-by: Mingwei Zhang <mizhang@google.com>
Co-developed-by: Dapeng Mi <dapeng1.mi@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dapeng Mi <dapeng1.mi@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: Xudong Hao <xudong.hao@intel.com>
Tested-by: Manali Shukla <manali.shukla@amd.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251206001720.468579-25-seanjc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
For vCPUs with a mediated vPMU, disable interception of counter MSRs for
PMCs that are exposed to the guest, and for GLOBAL_CTRL and related MSRs
if they are fully supported according to the vCPU model, i.e. if the MSRs
and all bits supported by hardware exist from the guest's point of view.
Do NOT passthrough event selector or fixed counter control MSRs, so that
KVM can enforce userspace-defined event filters, e.g. to prevent use of
AnyThread events (which is unfortunately a setting in the fixed counter
control MSR).
Defer support for nested passthrough of mediated PMU MSRs to the future,
as the logic for nested MSR interception is unfortunately vendor specific.
Suggested-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Co-developed-by: Mingwei Zhang <mizhang@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Mingwei Zhang <mizhang@google.com>
Co-developed-by: Sandipan Das <sandipan.das@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Sandipan Das <sandipan.das@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Dapeng Mi <dapeng1.mi@linux.intel.com>
[sean: squash patches, massage changelog, refresh VMX MSRs on filter change]
Tested-by: Xudong Hao <xudong.hao@intel.com>
Tested-by: Manali Shukla <manali.shukla@amd.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251206001720.468579-23-seanjc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
When running a guest with a mediated PMU, context switch PERF_GLOBAL_CTRL
via the dedicated VMCS fields for both host and guest. For the host,
always zero GLOBAL_CTRL on exit as the guest's state will still be loaded
in hardware (KVM will context switch the bulk of PMU state outside of the
inner run loop). For the guest, use the dedicated fields to atomically
load and save PERF_GLOBAL_CTRL on all entry/exits.
For now, require VM_EXIT_SAVE_IA32_PERF_GLOBAL_CTRL support (introduced by
Sapphire Rapids). KVM can support such CPUs by saving PERF_GLOBAL_CTRL
via the MSR save list, a.k.a. the MSR auto-store list, but defer that
support as it adds a small amount of complexity and is somewhat unique.
To minimize VM-Entry latency, propagate IA32_PERF_GLOBAL_CTRL to the VMCS
on-demand. But to minimize complexity, read IA32_PERF_GLOBAL_CTRL out of
the VMCS on all non-failing VM-Exits. I.e. partially cache the MSR.
KVM could track GLOBAL_CTRL as an EXREG and defer all reads, but writes
are rare, i.e. the dirty tracking for an EXREG is unnecessary, and it's
not obvious that shaving ~15-20 cycles per exit is meaningful given the
total overhead associated with mediated PMU context switches.
Suggested-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Dapeng Mi <dapeng1.mi@linux.intel.com>
Co-developed-by: Mingwei Zhang <mizhang@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Mingwei Zhang <mizhang@google.com>
Tested-by: Xudong Hao <xudong.hao@intel.com>
Co-developed-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Tested-by: Manali Shukla <manali.shukla@amd.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251206001720.468579-22-seanjc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Register a dedicated PMI handler with perf's callback when mediated PMU
support is enabled. Perf routes PMIs that arrive while guest context is
loaded to the provided callback, by modifying the CPU's LVTPC to point at
a dedicated mediated PMI IRQ vector.
WARN upon receipt of a mediated PMI if there is no active vCPU, or if the
vCPU doesn't have a mediated PMU. Even if a PMI manages to skid past
VM-Exit, it should never be delayed all the way beyond unloading the vCPU.
And while running vCPUs without a mediated PMU, the LVTPC should never be
wired up to the mediated PMI IRQ vector, i.e. should always be routed
through perf's NMI handler.
Signed-off-by: Xiong Zhang <xiong.y.zhang@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Mingwei Zhang <mizhang@google.com>
Tested-by: Xudong Hao <xudong.hao@intel.com>
Co-developed-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Tested-by: Manali Shukla <manali.shukla@amd.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251206001720.468579-20-seanjc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Implement Intel PMU requirements and constraints for mediated PMU support.
Require host PMU version 4+ so that PERF_GLOBAL_STATUS_SET can be used to
precisely load the guest's status value into hardware, and require full-
width writes so that KVM can precisely load guest counter values.
Disable PEBS and LBRs if mediated PMU support is enabled, as they won't be
supported in the initial implementation.
Signed-off-by: Dapeng Mi <dapeng1.mi@linux.intel.com>
Co-developed-by: Mingwei Zhang <mizhang@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Mingwei Zhang <mizhang@google.com>
[sean: split to separate patch, add full-width writes dependency]
Tested-by: Xudong Hao <xudong.hao@intel.com>
Tested-by: Manali Shukla <manali.shukla@amd.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251206001720.468579-18-seanjc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Introduce enable_mediated_pmu as a global variable, with the intent of
exposing it to userspace a vendor module parameter, to control and reflect
mediated vPMU support. Wire up the perf plumbing to create+release a
mediated PMU, but defer exposing the parameter to userspace until KVM
support for a mediated PMUs is fully landed.
To (a) minimize compatibility issues, (b) to give userspace a chance to
opt out of the restrictive side-effects of perf_create_mediated_pmu(),
and (c) to avoid adding new dependencies between enabling an in-kernel
irqchip and a mediated vPMU, defer "creating" a mediated PMU in perf
until the first vCPU is created.
Regarding userspace compatibility, an alternative solution would be to
make the mediated PMU fully opt-in, e.g. to avoid unexpected failure due
to perf_create_mediated_pmu() failing. Ironically, that approach creates
an even bigger compatibility issue, as turning on enable_mediated_pmu
would silently break VMMs that don't utilize KVM_CAP_PMU_CAPABILITY (well,
silently until the guest tried to access PMU assets).
Regarding an in-kernel irqchip, create a mediated PMU if and only if the
VM has an in-kernel local APIC, as the mediated PMU will take a hard
dependency on forwarding PMIs to the guest without bouncing through host
userspace. Silently "drop" the PMU instead of rejecting KVM_CREATE_VCPU,
as KVM's existing vPMU support doesn't function correctly if the local
APIC is emulated by userspace, e.g. PMIs will never be delivered. I.e.
it's far, far more likely that rejecting KVM_CREATE_VCPU would cause
problems, e.g. for tests or userspace daemons that just want to probe
basic KVM functionality.
Note! Deliberately make mediated PMU creation "sticky", i.e. don't unwind
it on failure to create a vCPU. Practically speaking, there's no harm to
having a VM with a mediated PMU and no vCPUs. To avoid an "impossible" VM
setup, reject KVM_CAP_PMU_CAPABILITY if a mediated PMU has been created,
i.e. don't let userspace disable PMU support after failed vCPU creation
(with PMU support enabled).
Defer vendor specific requirements and constraints to the future.
Suggested-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Dapeng Mi <dapeng1.mi@linux.intel.com>
Co-developed-by: Mingwei Zhang <mizhang@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Mingwei Zhang <mizhang@google.com>
Tested-by: Xudong Hao <xudong.hao@intel.com>
Co-developed-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Tested-by: Manali Shukla <manali.shukla@amd.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251206001720.468579-17-seanjc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
The mediated_pmu_account_event() and perf_create_mediated_pmu()
functions implement the exclusion between '!exclude_guest' counters
and mediated vPMUs. Their implementation is basically identical,
except mirrored in what they count/check.
Make sure the actual implementations reflect this similarity.
Notably:
- while perf_release_mediated_pmu() has an underflow check;
mediated_pmu_unaccount_event() did not.
- while perf_create_mediated_pmu() has an inc_not_zero() path;
mediated_pmu_account_event() did not.
Also, the inc_not_zero() path can be outsite of
perf_mediated_pmu_mutex. The mutex must guard the 0->1 (of either
nr_include_guest_events or nr_mediated_pmu_vms) transition, but once a
counter is already non-zero, it can safely be incremented further.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251208115156.GE3707891@noisy.programming.kicks-ass.net
The unwind user framework in general requires an architecture-specific
implementation of unwind_user_word_size() to be present for any unwind
method, whether that is fp or a future other method, such as potentially
sframe.
Guard unwind_user_word_size() by the availability of the UNWIND_USER
framework instead of the specific HAVE_UNWIND_USER_FP method.
This facilitates to selectively disable HAVE_UNWIND_USER_FP on x86
(e.g. for test purposes) once a new unwind method is added to unwind
user.
Signed-off-by: Jens Remus <jremus@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251208160352.1363040-4-jremus@linux.ibm.com
This simplifies the code. unwind_user_next_fp() does not need to
return -EINVAL if config option HAVE_UNWIND_USER_FP is disabled, as
unwind_user_start() will then not select this unwind method and
unwind_user_next() will therefore not call it.
Provide (1) a dummy definition of ARCH_INIT_USER_FP_FRAME, if the unwind
user method HAVE_UNWIND_USER_FP is not enabled, (2) a common fallback
definition of unwind_user_at_function_start() which returns false, and
(3) a common dummy definition of ARCH_INIT_USER_FP_ENTRY_FRAME.
Note that enabling the config option HAVE_UNWIND_USER_FP without
defining ARCH_INIT_USER_FP_FRAME triggers a compile error, which is
helpful when implementing support for this unwind user method in an
architecture. Enabling the config option when providing an arch-
specific unwind_user_at_function_start() definition makes it necessary
to also provide an arch-specific ARCH_INIT_USER_FP_ENTRY_FRAME
definition.
Signed-off-by: Jens Remus <jremus@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251208160352.1363040-3-jremus@linux.ibm.com
Move the comment "Get the Canonical Frame Address (CFA)" to the top
of the sequence of statements that actually get the CFA. Reword the
comment "Find the Return Address (RA)" to "Get ...", as the statements
actually get the RA. Add a respective comment to the statements that
get the FP. This will be useful once future commits extend the logic
to get the RA and FP.
While at it align the comment on the "stack going in wrong direction"
check to the following one on the "address is word aligned" check.
Signed-off-by: Jens Remus <jremus@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251208160352.1363040-2-jremus@linux.ibm.com
Apply the PERF_PMU_CAP_MEDIATED_VPMU flag for version 2 and later
implementations of the core PMU. Aside from having Global Control and
Status registers, virtualizing the PMU using the mediated model requires
an interface to set or clear the overflow bits in the Global Status MSRs
while restoring or saving the PMU context of a vCPU.
PerfMonV2-capable hardware has additional MSRs for this purpose, namely
PerfCntrGlobalStatusSet and PerfCntrGlobalStatusClr, thereby making it
suitable for use with mediated vPMU.
Signed-off-by: Sandipan Das <sandipan.das@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Mingwei Zhang <mizhang@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Xudong Hao <xudong.hao@intel.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251206001720.468579-14-seanjc@google.com
Apply the PERF_PMU_CAP_MEDIATED_VPMU for Intel core PMU. It only indicates
that the perf side of core PMU is ready to support the mediated vPMU.
Besides the capability, the hypervisor, a.k.a. KVM, still needs to check
the PMU version and other PMU features/capabilities to decide whether to
enable support mediated vPMUs.
[sean: massage changelog]
Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Mingwei Zhang <mizhang@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Xudong Hao <xudong.hao@intel.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251206001720.468579-13-seanjc@google.com
Add APIs (exported only for KVM) to switch PMIs to the dedicated mediated
PMU IRQ vector when loading guest context, and back to perf's standard NMI
when the guest context is put. I.e. route PMIs to
PERF_GUEST_MEDIATED_PMI_VECTOR when the guest context is active, and to
NMIs while the host context is active.
While running with guest context loaded, ignore all NMIs (in perf). Any
NMI that arrives while the LVTPC points at the mediated PMU IRQ vector
can't possibly be due to a host perf event.
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251206001720.468579-10-seanjc@google.com
Wire up system vector 0xf5 for handling PMIs (i.e. interrupts delivered
through the LVTPC) while running KVM guests with a mediated PMU. Perf
currently delivers all PMIs as NMIs, e.g. so that events that trigger while
IRQs are disabled aren't delayed and generate useless records, but due to
the multiplexing of NMIs throughout the system, correctly identifying NMIs
for a mediated PMU is practically infeasible.
To (greatly) simplify identifying guest mediated PMU PMIs, perf will
switch the CPU's LVTPC between PERF_GUEST_MEDIATED_PMI_VECTOR and NMI when
guest PMU context is loaded/put. I.e. PMIs that are generated by the CPU
while the guest is active will be identified purely based on the IRQ
vector.
Route the vector through perf, e.g. as opposed to letting KVM attach a
handler directly a la posted interrupt notification vectors, as perf owns
the LVTPC and thus is the rightful owner of PERF_GUEST_MEDIATED_PMI_VECTOR.
Functionally, having KVM directly own the vector would be fine (both KVM
and perf will be completely aware of when a mediated PMU is active), but
would lead to an undesirable split in ownership: perf would be responsible
for installing the vector, but not handling the resulting IRQs.
Add a new perf_guest_info_callbacks hook (and static call) to allow KVM to
register its handler with perf when running guests with mediated PMUs.
Note, because KVM always runs guests with host IRQs enabled, there is no
danger of a PMI being delayed from the guest's perspective due to using a
regular IRQ instead of an NMI.
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Xudong Hao <xudong.hao@intel.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251206001720.468579-9-seanjc@google.com
Add exported APIs to load/put a guest mediated PMU context. KVM will
load the guest PMU shortly before VM-Enter, and put the guest PMU shortly
after VM-Exit.
On the perf side of things, schedule out all exclude_guest events when the
guest context is loaded, and schedule them back in when the guest context
is put. I.e. yield the hardware PMU resources to the guest, by way of KVM.
Note, perf is only responsible for managing host context. KVM is
responsible for loading/storing guest state to/from hardware.
[sean: shuffle patches around, write changelog]
Suggested-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Mingwei Zhang <mizhang@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Xudong Hao <xudong.hao@intel.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251206001720.468579-8-seanjc@google.com
Current perf doesn't explicitly schedule out all exclude_guest events
while the guest is running. There is no problem with the current
emulated vPMU. Because perf owns all the PMU counters. It can mask the
counter which is assigned to an exclude_guest event when a guest is
running (Intel way), or set the corresponding HOSTONLY bit in evsentsel
(AMD way). The counter doesn't count when a guest is running.
However, either way doesn't work with the introduced mediated vPMU.
A guest owns all the PMU counters when it's running. The host should not
mask any counters. The counter may be used by the guest. The evsentsel
may be overwritten.
Perf should explicitly schedule out all exclude_guest events to release
the PMU resources when entering a guest, and resume the counting when
exiting the guest.
It's possible that an exclude_guest event is created when a guest is
running. The new event should not be scheduled in as well.
The ctx time is shared among different PMUs. The time cannot be stopped
when a guest is running. It is required to calculate the time for events
from other PMUs, e.g., uncore events. Add timeguest to track the guest
run time. For an exclude_guest event, the elapsed time equals
the ctx time - guest time.
Cgroup has dedicated times. Use the same method to deduct the guest time
from the cgroup time as well.
[sean: massage comments]
Co-developed-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Mingwei Zhang <mizhang@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Xudong Hao <xudong.hao@intel.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251206001720.468579-7-seanjc@google.com
The current perf tracks two timestamps for the normal ctx and cgroup.
The same type of variables and similar codes are used to track the
timestamps. In the following patch, the third timestamp to track the
guest time will be introduced.
To avoid the code duplication, add a new struct perf_time_ctx and factor
out a generic function update_perf_time_ctx().
No functional change.
Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Mingwei Zhang <mizhang@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Xudong Hao <xudong.hao@intel.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251206001720.468579-6-seanjc@google.com
Currently, exposing PMU capabilities to a KVM guest is done by emulating
guest PMCs via host perf events, i.e. by having KVM be "just" another user
of perf. As a result, the guest and host are effectively competing for
resources, and emulating guest accesses to vPMU resources requires
expensive actions (expensive relative to the native instruction). The
overhead and resource competition results in degraded guest performance
and ultimately very poor vPMU accuracy.
To address the issues with the perf-emulated vPMU, introduce a "mediated
vPMU", where the data plane (PMCs and enable/disable knobs) is exposed
directly to the guest, but the control plane (event selectors and access
to fixed counters) is managed by KVM (via MSR interceptions). To allow
host perf usage of the PMU to (partially) co-exist with KVM/guest usage
of the PMU, KVM and perf will coordinate to a world switch between host
perf context and guest vPMU context near VM-Enter/VM-Exit.
Add two exported APIs, perf_{create,release}_mediated_pmu(), to allow KVM
to create and release a mediated PMU instance (per VM). Because host perf
context will be deactivated while the guest is running, mediated PMU usage
will be mutually exclusive with perf analysis of the guest, i.e. perf
events that do NOT exclude the guest will not behave as expected.
To avoid silent failure of !exclude_guest perf events, disallow creating a
mediated PMU if there are active !exclude_guest events, and on the perf
side, disallowing creating new !exclude_guest perf events while there is
at least one active mediated PMU.
Exempt PMU resources that do not support mediated PMU usage, i.e. that are
outside the scope/view of KVM's vPMU and will not be swapped out while the
guest is running.
Guard mediated PMU with a new kconfig to help readers identify code paths
that are unique to mediated PMU support, and to allow for adding arch-
specific hooks without stubs. KVM x86 is expected to be the only KVM
architecture to support a mediated PMU in the near future (e.g. arm64 is
trending toward a partitioned PMU implementation), and KVM x86 will select
PERF_GUEST_MEDIATED_PMU unconditionally, i.e. won't need stubs.
Immediately select PERF_GUEST_MEDIATED_PMU when KVM x86 is enabled so that
all paths are compile tested. Full KVM support is on its way...
[sean: add kconfig and WARNing, rewrite changelog, swizzle patch ordering]
Suggested-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Mingwei Zhang <mizhang@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Xudong Hao <xudong.hao@intel.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251206001720.468579-5-seanjc@google.com
Move the freeing of any security state associated with a perf event from
_free_event() to __free_event(), i.e. invoke security_perf_event_free() in
the error paths for perf_event_alloc(). This will allow adding potential
error paths in perf_event_alloc() that can occur after allocating security
state.
Note, kfree() and thus security_perf_event_free() is a nop if
event->security is NULL, i.e. calling security_perf_event_free() even if
security_perf_event_alloc() fails or is never reached is functionality ok.
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Xudong Hao <xudong.hao@intel.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251206001720.468579-4-seanjc@google.com
To optimize the cgroup context switch, the perf_event_pmu_context
iteration skips the PMUs without cgroup events. A bool cgroup was
introduced to indicate the case. It can work, but this way is hard to
extend for other cases, e.g. skipping non-mediated PMUs. It doesn't
make sense to keep adding bool variables.
Pass the event_type instead of the specific bool variable. Check both
the event_type and related pmu_ctx variables to decide whether skipping
a PMU.
Event flags, e.g., EVENT_CGROUP, should be cleard in the ctx->is_active.
Add EVENT_FLAGS to indicate such event flags.
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Mingwei Zhang <mizhang@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Yongwei Ma <yongwei.ma@intel.com>
Tested-by: Xudong Hao <xudong.hao@intel.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251206001720.468579-2-seanjc@google.com
Pull SCSI fixes from James Bottomley:
"The only core fix is in doc; all the others are in drivers, with the
biggest impacts in libsas being the rollback on error handling and in
ufs coming from a couple of error handling fixes, one causing a crash
if it's activated before scanning and the other fixing W-LUN
resumption"
* tag 'scsi-misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi:
scsi: ufs: qcom: Fix confusing cleanup.h syntax
scsi: libsas: Add rollback handling when an error occurs
scsi: device_handler: Return error pointer in scsi_dh_attached_handler_name()
scsi: ufs: core: Fix a deadlock in the frequency scaling code
scsi: ufs: core: Fix an error handler crash
scsi: Revert "scsi: libsas: Fix exp-attached device scan after probe failure scanned in again after probe failed"
scsi: ufs: core: Fix RPMB link error by reversing Kconfig dependencies
scsi: qla4xxx: Use time conversion macros
scsi: qla2xxx: Enable/disable IRQD_NO_BALANCING during reset
scsi: ipr: Enable/disable IRQD_NO_BALANCING during reset
scsi: imm: Fix use-after-free bug caused by unfinished delayed work
scsi: target: sbp: Remove KMSG_COMPONENT macro
scsi: core: Correct documentation for scsi_device_quiesce()
scsi: mpi3mr: Prevent duplicate SAS/SATA device entries in channel 1
scsi: target: Reset t_task_cdb pointer in error case
scsi: ufs: core: Fix EH failure after W-LUN resume error
Pull ceph updates from Ilya Dryomov:
"We have a patch that adds an initial set of tracepoints to the MDS
client from Max, a fix that hardens osdmap parsing code from myself
(marked for stable) and a few assorted fixups"
* tag 'ceph-for-6.19-rc1' of https://github.com/ceph/ceph-client:
rbd: stop selecting CRC32, CRYPTO, and CRYPTO_AES
ceph: stop selecting CRC32, CRYPTO, and CRYPTO_AES
libceph: make decode_pool() more resilient against corrupted osdmaps
libceph: Amend checking to fix `make W=1` build breakage
ceph: Amend checking to fix `make W=1` build breakage
ceph: add trace points to the MDS client
libceph: fix log output race condition in OSD client
Pull tomoyo update from Tetsuo Handa:
"Trivial optimization"
* tag 'tomoyo-pr-20251212' of git://git.code.sf.net/p/tomoyo/tomoyo:
tomoyo: Use local kmap in tomoyo_dump_page()
Pull CPU hotplug fix from Ingo Molnar:
- Fix CPU hotplug callbacks to disable interrupts on UP kernels
* tag 'smp-urgent-2025-12-12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
cpu: Make atomic hotplug callbacks run with interrupts disabled on UP
Pull irq fixes from Ingo Molnar:
- Fix error code in the irqchip/mchp-eic driver
- Fix setup_percpu_irq() affinity assumptions
- Remove the unused irq_domain_add_tree() function
* tag 'irq-urgent-2025-12-12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
irqchip/mchp-eic: Fix error code in mchp_eic_domain_alloc()
irqdomain: Delete irq_domain_add_tree()
genirq: Allow NULL affinity for setup_percpu_irq()
Pull misc core fixes from Ingo Molnar:
- Improve bug reporting
- Suppress W=1 format warning
- Improve rseq scalability on Clang builds
* tag 'core-urgent-2025-12-12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
rseq: Always inline rseq_debug_syscall_return()
bug: Hush suggest-attribute=format for __warn_printf()
bug: Let report_bug_entry() provide the correct bugaddr
Pull misc updates from Andrew Morton:
"There are no significant series in this small merge. Please see the
individual changelogs for details"
[ Editor's note: it's mainly ocfs2 and a couple of random fixes ]
* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2025-12-11-11-47' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm:
mm: memfd_luo: add CONFIG_SHMEM dependency
mm: shmem: avoid build warning for CONFIG_SHMEM=n
ocfs2: fix memory leak in ocfs2_merge_rec_left()
ocfs2: invalidate inode if i_mode is zero after block read
ocfs2: avoid -Wflex-array-member-not-at-end warning
ocfs2: convert remaining read-only checks to ocfs2_emergency_state
ocfs2: add ocfs2_emergency_state helper and apply to setattr
checkpatch: add uninitialized pointer with __free attribute check
args: fix documentation to reflect the correct numbers
ocfs2: fix kernel BUG in ocfs2_find_victim_chain
liveupdate: luo_core: fix redundant bound check in luo_ioctl()
ocfs2: validate inline xattr size and entry count in ocfs2_xattr_ibody_list
fs/fat: remove unnecessary wrapper fat_max_cache()
ocfs2: replace deprecated strcpy with strscpy
ocfs2: check tl_used after reading it from trancate log inode
liveupdate: luo_file: don't use invalid list iterator
Pull more MM updates from Andrew Morton:
- "powerpc/pseries/cmm: two smaller fixes" (David Hildenbrand)
fixes a couple of minor things in ppc land
- "Improve folio split related functions" (Zi Yan)
some cleanups and minorish fixes in the folio splitting code
* tag 'mm-stable-2025-12-11-11-39' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm:
mm/damon/tests/core-kunit: avoid damos_test_commit stack warning
mm: vmscan: correct nr_requested tracing in scan_folios
MAINTAINERS: add idr core-api doc file to XARRAY
mm/hugetlb: fix incorrect error return from hugetlb_reserve_pages()
mm: fix CONFIG_STACK_GROWSUP typo in mm.h
mm/huge_memory: fix folio split stats counting
mm/huge_memory: make min_order_for_split() always return an order
mm/huge_memory: replace can_split_folio() with direct refcount calculation
mm/huge_memory: change folio_split_supported() to folio_check_splittable()
mm/sparse: fix sparse_vmemmap_init_nid_early definition without CONFIG_SPARSEMEM
powerpc/pseries/cmm: adjust BALLOON_MIGRATE when migrating pages
powerpc/pseries/cmm: call balloon_devinfo_init() also without CONFIG_BALLOON_COMPACTION
Brown paper bag time. This is a silly oversight where I missed to drop
the error condition checking to ensure we clean up on early error
returns. I have an internal unit testset coming up for this which will
catch all such issues going forward.
Reported-by: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>
Reported-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Fixes: 011703a9ac ("file: add FD_{ADD,PREPARE}()")
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
