[RFC PATCH 0/6] ARM64: KVM: PMU infrastructure support

[Anup Patel]

On 5 August 2014 15:02, Anup Patel <apatel at apm.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 2:54 PM, Anup Patel <anup.patel at linaro.org> wrote:
>> This patchset enables PMU virtualization in KVM ARM64. The
>> Guest can now directly use PMU available on the host HW.
>>
>> The virtual PMU IRQ injection for Guest VCPUs is managed by
>> small piece of code shared between KVM ARM and KVM ARM64. The
>> virtual PMU IRQ number will be based on Guest machine model and
>> user space will provide it using set device address vm ioctl.
>>
>> The second last patch of this series implements full context
>> switch of PMU registers which will context switch all PMU
>> registers on every KVM world-switch.
>>
>> The last patch implements a lazy context switch of PMU registers
>> which is very similar to lazy debug context switch.
>> (Refer, http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2014-July/271040.html)
>>
>> Also, we reserve last PMU event counter for EL2 mode which
>> will not be accessible from Host and Guest EL1 mode. This
>> reserved EL2 mode PMU event counter can be used for profiling
>> KVM world-switch and other EL2 mode functions.
>>
>> All testing have been done using KVMTOOL on X-Gene Mustang and
>> Foundation v8 Model for both Aarch32 and Aarch64 guest.
>>
>> Anup Patel (6):
>>   ARM64: Move PMU register related defines to asm/pmu.h
>>   ARM64: perf: Re-enable overflow interrupt from interrupt handler
>>   ARM: perf: Re-enable overflow interrupt from interrupt handler
>>   ARM/ARM64: KVM: Add common code PMU IRQ routing
>>   ARM64: KVM: Implement full context switch of PMU registers
>>   ARM64: KVM: Upgrade to lazy context switch of PMU registers
>>
>>  arch/arm/include/asm/kvm_host.h   |    9 +
>>  arch/arm/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h   |    1 +
>>  arch/arm/kernel/perf_event_v7.c   |    8 +
>>  arch/arm/kvm/arm.c                |    6 +
>>  arch/arm/kvm/reset.c              |    4 +
>>  arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_asm.h  |   39 +++-
>>  arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h |   12 ++
>>  arch/arm64/include/asm/pmu.h      |   44 +++++
>>  arch/arm64/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h |    1 +
>>  arch/arm64/kernel/asm-offsets.c   |    2 +
>>  arch/arm64/kernel/perf_event.c    |   40 +---
>>  arch/arm64/kvm/Kconfig            |    7 +
>>  arch/arm64/kvm/Makefile           |    1 +
>>  arch/arm64/kvm/hyp-init.S         |   15 ++
>>  arch/arm64/kvm/hyp.S              |  209 +++++++++++++++++++-
>>  arch/arm64/kvm/reset.c            |    4 +
>>  arch/arm64/kvm/sys_regs.c         |  385 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
>>  include/kvm/arm_pmu.h             |   52 +++++
>>  virt/kvm/arm/pmu.c                |  105 ++++++++++
>>  19 files changed, 870 insertions(+), 74 deletions(-)
>>  create mode 100644 include/kvm/arm_pmu.h
>>  create mode 100644 virt/kvm/arm/pmu.c
>>
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Anup

>>
>
> Hi All,
>
> Please apply attached patch to KVMTOOL on-top-of my
> recent KVMTOOL patchset for trying this patchset using
> KVMTOOL.
>
> Regards,
> Anup