Dapeng Mi c1afca106e perf tools kvm: Use "cycles" to sample guest for "kvm record" on Intel
After KVM supports PEBS for guest on Intel platforms
(https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220411101946.20262-1-likexu@tencent.com/),
host loses the capability to sample guest with PEBS since all PEBS related
MSRs are switched to guest value after vm-entry, like IA32_DS_AREA MSR is
switched to guest GVA at vm-entry. This would lead to "perf kvm record"
fails to sample guest on Intel platforms since "cycles:P" event is used to
sample guest by default as below case shows.

sudo perf kvm record -a
^C[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.787 MB perf.data.guest ]

So to ensure guest record can be sampled successfully, use "cycles"
instead of "cycles:P" to sample guest record by default on Intel
platforms. With this patch, the guest record can be sampled
successfully.

sudo perf kvm record -a
^C[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.783 MB perf.data.guest (23 samples) ]

Fixes: cf8e55fe50 ("KVM: x86/pmu: Expose CPUIDs feature bits PDCM, DS, DTES64")
Reported-by: Kevin Tian <kevin.tian@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dapeng Mi <dapeng1.mi@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Like Xu <likexu@tencent.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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