linux-kernel - [PATCH RESEND v2 1/8] perf/x86/core: Completely disable guest PEBS via guest's global

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Date:   Tue, 23 Aug 2022 17:32:14 +0800
From:   Like Xu <like.xu.linux@...il.com>
To:     Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>,
        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
Cc:     Jim Mattson <jmattson@...gle.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        kvm@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH RESEND v2 1/8] perf/x86/core: Completely disable guest PEBS via guest's global_ctrl

From: Like Xu <likexu@...cent.com>

When a guest PEBS counter is cross-mapped by a host counter, software
will remove the corresponding bit in the arr[global_ctrl].guest and
expect hardware to perform a change of state "from enable to disable"
via the msr_slot[] switch during the vmx transaction.

The real world is that if user adjust the counter overflow value small
enough, it still opens a tiny race window for the previously PEBS-enabled
counter to write cross-mapped PEBS records into the guest's PEBS buffer,
when arr[global_ctrl].guest has been prioritised (switch_msr_special stuff)
to switch into the enabled state, while the arr[pebs_enable].guest has not.

Close this window by clearing invalid bits in the arr[global_ctrl].guest.

Fixes: 854250329c02 ("KVM: x86/pmu: Disable guest PEBS temporarily in two rare situations")
Signed-off-by: Like Xu <likexu@...cent.com>
---
 arch/x86/events/intel/core.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/events/intel/core.c b/arch/x86/events/intel/core.c
index 2db93498ff71..75cdd11ab014 100644
--- a/arch/x86/events/intel/core.c
+++ b/arch/x86/events/intel/core.c
@@ -4052,8 +4052,9 @@ static struct perf_guest_switch_msr *intel_guest_get_msrs(int *nr, void *data)
 		/* Disable guest PEBS if host PEBS is enabled. */
 		arr[pebs_enable].guest = 0;
 	} else {
-		/* Disable guest PEBS for cross-mapped PEBS counters. */
+		/* Disable guest PEBS thoroughly for cross-mapped PEBS counters. */
 		arr[pebs_enable].guest &= ~kvm_pmu->host_cross_mapped_mask;
+		arr[global_ctrl].guest &= ~kvm_pmu->host_cross_mapped_mask;
 		/* Set hw GLOBAL_CTRL bits for PEBS counter when it runs for guest */
 		arr[global_ctrl].guest |= arr[pebs_enable].guest;
 	}
-- 
2.37.2