linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v19 040/130] KVM: TDX: Make pmu

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Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2024 15:01:48 +0800
From: Chao Gao <chao.gao@...el.com>
To: <isaku.yamahata@...el.com>
CC: <kvm@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	<isaku.yamahata@...il.com>, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
	<erdemaktas@...gle.com>, Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>, Sagi Shahar
	<sagis@...gle.com>, Kai Huang <kai.huang@...el.com>, <chen.bo@...el.com>,
	<hang.yuan@...el.com>, <tina.zhang@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v19 040/130] KVM: TDX: Make pmu_intel.c ignore guest TD
 case

On Mon, Feb 26, 2024 at 12:25:42AM -0800, isaku.yamahata@...el.com wrote:
>From: Isaku Yamahata <isaku.yamahata@...el.com>
>
>Because TDX KVM doesn't support PMU yet (it's future work of TDX KVM
>support as another patch series) and pmu_intel.c touches vmx specific
>structure in vcpu initialization, as workaround add dummy structure to
>struct vcpu_tdx and pmu_intel.c can ignore TDX case.

Can we instead factor pmu_intel.c to avoid corrupting memory? how hard would it
be?

>+bool intel_pmu_lbr_is_enabled(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
>+{
>+	struct x86_pmu_lbr *lbr = vcpu_to_lbr_records(vcpu);
>+
>+	if (is_td_vcpu(vcpu))
>+		return false;
>+
>+	return lbr->nr && (vcpu_get_perf_capabilities(vcpu) & PMU_CAP_LBR_FMT);

The check about vcpu's perf capabilities is new. is it necessary?

>-static inline bool intel_pmu_lbr_is_enabled(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
>-{
>-	return !!vcpu_to_lbr_records(vcpu)->nr;
>-}
>-