linux-kernel - Re: [PATCHv2 2/9] KVM: Expose a version 2 architectural PMU to a guests

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Message-ID: <20111107151155.GC8670@redhat.com>
Date:	Mon, 7 Nov 2011 17:11:55 +0200
From:	Gleb Natapov <gleb@...hat.com>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
Cc:	Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
	mtosatti@...hat.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, mingo@...e.hu,
	acme@...stprotocols.net
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 2/9] KVM: Expose a version 2 architectural PMU to a
 guests

On Mon, Nov 07, 2011 at 03:59:08PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-11-07 at 16:46 +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
> > On 11/07/2011 04:34 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2011-11-03 at 14:33 +0200, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> > > > +static void kvm_perf_overflow_intr(struct perf_event *perf_event,
> > > > +               struct perf_sample_data *data, struct pt_regs *regs)
> > > > +{
> > > > +       struct kvm_pmc *pmc = perf_event->overflow_handler_context;
> > > > +       struct kvm_pmu *pmu = &pmc->vcpu->arch.pmu;
> > > > +       if (!test_and_set_bit(pmc->idx, (unsigned long *)&pmu->reprogram_pmi)) {
> > > > +               kvm_perf_overflow(perf_event, data, regs);
> > > > +               kvm_make_request(KVM_REQ_PMU, pmc->vcpu);
> > > > +               /*
> > > > +                * Inject PMI. If vcpu was in a guest mode during NMI PMI
> > > > +                * can be ejected on a guest mode re-entry. Otherwise we can't
> > > > +                * be sure that vcpu is not halted, so we should kick it, but
> > > > +                * this is impossible from NMI context. Do it from irq work
> > > > +                * instead.
> > > > +                */
> > > > +               if (!kvm_is_in_guest())
> > > > +                       irq_work_queue(&pmc->vcpu->arch.pmu.irq_work);
> > > > +               else
> > > > +                       kvm_make_request(KVM_REQ_PMI, pmc->vcpu);
> > > > +       }
> > > > +} 
> > >
> > > I'm not sure I get this, since the counters are vcpu task bound and only
> > > count while the guest is running as per (144d31e6f19) how can we get an
> > > NMI outside of guest context with the vcpu not halted?
> > 
> > PMI skew.  Do we know how bad it can get?
> 
I checked and we do get them. Not often. Something like once per second of
"perf record" run in a guest.

> You're talking about the PMI getting asserted before leaving guest mode
> but not getting ran until after we left guest mode?
> 
> But in that case we know the guest is stopped, right? So we can simply
> set that REQ_PMI bit and have guest entry sort things, no?
If exit reason was HALT a guest will not attempt a reentry unless MPI or
other event is injected. We can't eject event in NMI context so we
schedule irq work in this case.

--
			Gleb.
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