linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] KVM: VMX: Always treat MSR_IA32_PERF

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Message-ID: <f7a234a7-664b-9160-f467-48b807d47c8b@redhat.com>
Date:   Thu, 4 Jun 2020 18:20:28 +0200
From:   Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
To:     Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@...el.com>,
        "Xu, Like" <like.xu@...el.com>
Cc:     Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@...hat.com>,
        Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@...cent.com>,
        Jim Mattson <jmattson@...gle.com>,
        Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Like Xu <like.xu@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM: VMX: Always treat MSR_IA32_PERF_CAPABILITIES as a
 valid PMU MSR

On 04/06/20 17:16, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 04, 2020 at 09:37:59AM +0800, Xu, Like wrote:
>> On 2020/6/4 4:33, Sean Christopherson wrote:
>>> Unconditionally return true when querying the validity of
>>> MSR_IA32_PERF_CAPABILITIES so as to defer the validity check to
>>> intel_pmu_{get,set}_msr(), which can properly give the MSR a pass when
>>> the access is initiated from host userspace.
>> Regardless ofÃ‚Â  the MSR is emulated or not, is it a really good assumption that
>> the guest cpuids are not properly ready when we do initialization from host
>> userspace
>> ?
>
> I don't know if I would call it a "good assumption" so much as a "necessary
> assumption".  KVM_{GET,SET}_MSRS are allowed, and must function correctly,
> if they're called prior to KVM_SET_CPUID{2}.

Generally speaking this is not the case for the PMU; get_gp_pmc for
example depends on pmu->nr_arch_gp_counters which is initialized based
on CPUID leaf 0xA.

The assumption that this patch fixes is that you can blindly take the
output of KVM_GET_MSR_INDEX_LIST and pass it to KVM_{GET,SET}_MSRS.

Paolo