[PATCH 00/18] KVM: arm64: Support FEAT_PMUv3 on Apple hardware
Janne Grunau
j at jannau.net
Sat Dec 21 05:45:49 PST 2024
On Tue, Dec 17, 2024 at 01:20:30PM -0800, Oliver Upton wrote:
> One of the interesting features of some Apple M* parts is an IMPDEF trap
> that routes EL1/EL0 accesses of the PMUv3 registers to EL2. This allows
> a hypervisor to emulate an architectural PMUv3 on top of the IMPDEF PMU
> hardware present in the CPU.
>
> And if you squint, this _might_ look like a CPU erratum :-)
>
> This series takes advantage of these IMPDEF traps to provide PMUv3 to
> KVM guests. As a starting point, only expose the fixed CPU cycle counter
> and no event counters. Conveniently, this is enough to get Windows
> running as a KVM guest on Apple hardware.
>
> I've tried to keep the deviation to a minimum by refactoring some of the
> flows used for PMUv3, e.g. computing PMCEID from the arm_pmu bitmap
> instead of reading hardware directly.
>
> RFC -> v1:
> - Rebase to 6.13-rc3
> - Add support for 1 event counter in addition to CPU cycle counter
> - Don't sneak past the PMU event filter (Marc)
> - Have the PMU driver provide a PMUv3 -> HW event ID mapping (Marc)
>
> Tested on my M2 with Linux and Windows guests. If possible, I'd
> appreciate someone testing on an M1 as I haven't added those MIDRs to
> the erratum yet.
Tested on M1 (t8103) with perf in a Linux guest and the patch below
Tested-by: Janne Grunau <j at jannau.net>
I'll import this into the downstream asahi kernel as there was a request
for performance counters to aid FEX-Emu development recently.
Janne
---
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpu_errata.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpu_errata.c
index 441ee4ffc7709..45ef67ec970f5 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpu_errata.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpu_errata.c
@@ -195,6 +195,12 @@ has_neoverse_n1_erratum_1542419(const struct arm64_cpu_capabilities *entry,
}
static const struct midr_range impdef_pmuv3_cpus[] = {
+ MIDR_ALL_VERSIONS(MIDR_APPLE_M1_ICESTORM),
+ MIDR_ALL_VERSIONS(MIDR_APPLE_M1_FIRESTORM),
+ MIDR_ALL_VERSIONS(MIDR_APPLE_M1_ICESTORM_PRO),
+ MIDR_ALL_VERSIONS(MIDR_APPLE_M1_FIRESTORM_PRO),
+ MIDR_ALL_VERSIONS(MIDR_APPLE_M1_ICESTORM_MAX),
+ MIDR_ALL_VERSIONS(MIDR_APPLE_M1_FIRESTORM_MAX),
MIDR_ALL_VERSIONS(MIDR_APPLE_M2_BLIZZARD),
MIDR_ALL_VERSIONS(MIDR_APPLE_M2_AVALANCHE),
MIDR_ALL_VERSIONS(MIDR_APPLE_M2_BLIZZARD_PRO),
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