Re: [PATCH 2/3] i386: kvm: disable KVM_CAP_PMU_CAPABILITY if "pmu" is disabled

[Liang Yan]

On 11/21/22 06:03, Greg Kurz wrote:
> On Sat, 19 Nov 2022 04:29:00 -0800
> Dongli Zhang <dongli.zhang@oracle.com> wrote:
>
> > The "perf stat" at the VM side still works even we set "-cpu host,-pmu" in
> > the QEMU command line. That is, neither "-cpu host,-pmu" nor "-cpu EPYC"
> > could disable the pmu virtualization in an AMD environment.
> >
> > We still see below at VM kernel side ...
> >
> > [    0.510611] Performance Events: Fam17h+ core perfctr, AMD PMU driver.
> >
> > ... although we expect something like below.
> >
> > [    0.596381] Performance Events: PMU not available due to virtualization, 
> > using software events only.
> > [    0.600972] NMI watchdog: Perf NMI watchdog permanently disabled
> >
> > This is because the AMD pmu (v1) does not rely on cpuid to decide if the
> > pmu virtualization is supported.
> >
> > We disable KVM_CAP_PMU_CAPABILITY if the 'pmu' is disabled in the vcpu
> > properties.
> >
> > Cc: Joe Jin <joe.jin@oracle.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Dongli Zhang <dongli.zhang@oracle.com>
> > ---
> >   target/i386/kvm/kvm.c | 17 +++++++++++++++++
> >   1 file changed, 17 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/target/i386/kvm/kvm.c b/target/i386/kvm/kvm.c
> > index 8fec0bc5b5..0b1226ff7f 100644
> > --- a/target/i386/kvm/kvm.c
> > +++ b/target/i386/kvm/kvm.c
> > @@ -137,6 +137,8 @@ static int has_triple_fault_event;
> >   
> >   static bool has_msr_mcg_ext_ctl;
> >   
> > +static int has_pmu_cap;
> > +
> >   static struct kvm_cpuid2 *cpuid_cache;
> >   static struct kvm_cpuid2 *hv_cpuid_cache;
> >   static struct kvm_msr_list *kvm_feature_msrs;
> > @@ -1725,6 +1727,19 @@ static void kvm_init_nested_state(CPUX86State *env)
> >   
> >   void kvm_arch_pre_create_vcpu(CPUState *cs)
> >   {
> > +    X86CPU *cpu = X86_CPU(cs);
> > +    int ret;
> > +
> > +    if (has_pmu_cap && !cpu->enable_pmu) {
> > +        ret = kvm_vm_enable_cap(kvm_state, KVM_CAP_PMU_CAPABILITY, 0,
> > +                                KVM_PMU_CAP_DISABLE);
> It doesn't seem conceptually correct to configure VM level stuff out of
> a vCPU property, which could theoretically be different for each vCPU,
> even if this isn't the case with the current code base.
>
> Maybe consider controlling PMU with a machine property and this
> could be done in kvm_arch_init() like other VM level stuff ?

There is already a 'pmu' property for x86_cpu with variable 'enable_pmu' 
as we see the above code. It is mainly used by Intel CPU and set to off 
by default since qemu 1.5.

And, this property is spread to AMD CPU too.

I think you may need setup a machine property to disable it from current 
machine model. Otherwise, it will break the Live Migration scenario.


> > +        if (ret < 0) {
> > +            error_report("kvm: Failed to disable pmu cap: %s",
> > +                         strerror(-ret));
> > +        }
> > +
> > +        has_pmu_cap = 0;
> > +    }
> >   }
> >   
> >   int kvm_arch_init_vcpu(CPUState *cs)
> > @@ -2517,6 +2532,8 @@ int kvm_arch_init(MachineState *ms, KVMState *s)
> >           }
> >       }
> >   
> > +    has_pmu_cap = kvm_check_extension(s, KVM_CAP_PMU_CAPABILITY);
> > +
> >       ret = kvm_get_supported_msrs(s);
> >       if (ret < 0) {
> >           return ret;