[PATCH v6 25/44] KVM: x86/pmu: Reprogram mediated PMU event selectors on event filter updates
Sean Christopherson
seanjc at google.com
Fri Dec 5 16:17:01 PST 2025
From: Dapeng Mi <dapeng1.mi at linux.intel.com>
Refresh the event selectors that are programmed into hardware when a PMC
is "reprogrammed" for a mediated PMU, i.e. if userspace changes the PMU
event filters
Note, KVM doesn't utilize the reprogramming infrastructure to handle
counter overflow for mediated PMUs, as there's no need to reprogram a
non-existent perf event.
Suggested-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc at google.com>
Signed-off-by: Dapeng Mi <dapeng1.mi at linux.intel.com>
Co-developed-by: Mingwei Zhang <mizhang at google.com>
Signed-off-by: Mingwei Zhang <mizhang at google.com>
[sean: add a helper to document behavior, split patch and rewrite changelog]
Tested-by: Xudong Hao <xudong.hao at intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc at google.com>
---
arch/x86/kvm/pmu.c | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 24 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/pmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/pmu.c
index 36eebc1c7e70..39904e6fd227 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/pmu.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/pmu.c
@@ -522,6 +522,25 @@ static bool pmc_is_event_allowed(struct kvm_pmc *pmc)
return is_fixed_event_allowed(filter, pmc->idx);
}
+static void kvm_mediated_pmu_refresh_event_filter(struct kvm_pmc *pmc)
+{
+ bool allowed = pmc_is_event_allowed(pmc);
+ struct kvm_pmu *pmu = pmc_to_pmu(pmc);
+
+ if (pmc_is_gp(pmc)) {
+ pmc->eventsel_hw &= ~ARCH_PERFMON_EVENTSEL_ENABLE;
+ if (allowed)
+ pmc->eventsel_hw |= pmc->eventsel &
+ ARCH_PERFMON_EVENTSEL_ENABLE;
+ } else {
+ u64 mask = intel_fixed_bits_by_idx(pmc->idx - KVM_FIXED_PMC_BASE_IDX, 0xf);
+
+ pmu->fixed_ctr_ctrl_hw &= ~mask;
+ if (allowed)
+ pmu->fixed_ctr_ctrl_hw |= pmu->fixed_ctr_ctrl & mask;
+ }
+}
+
static int reprogram_counter(struct kvm_pmc *pmc)
{
struct kvm_pmu *pmu = pmc_to_pmu(pmc);
@@ -530,6 +549,11 @@ static int reprogram_counter(struct kvm_pmc *pmc)
bool emulate_overflow;
u8 fixed_ctr_ctrl;
+ if (kvm_vcpu_has_mediated_pmu(pmu_to_vcpu(pmu))) {
+ kvm_mediated_pmu_refresh_event_filter(pmc);
+ return 0;
+ }
+
emulate_overflow = pmc_pause_counter(pmc);
if (!pmc_is_globally_enabled(pmc) || !pmc_is_locally_enabled(pmc) ||
--
2.52.0.223.gf5cc29aaa4-goog
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