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authorSean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>2024-06-28 02:55:56 +0200
committerSean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>2024-06-28 17:44:03 +0200
commit5bb9af07d37c95ac83725ed0f92c2a4315ade0ae (patch)
treef7e248ab9eb3f1921d756b1f65a80fb441d27b2b
parentKVM: selftests: Print the seed for the guest pRNG iff it has changed (diff)
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KVM: selftests: Rework macros in PMU counters test to prep for multi-insn loop
Tweak the macros in the PMU counters test to prepare for moving the CLFLUSH+MFENCE instructions into the loop body, to fix an issue where a single CLFUSH doesn't guarantee an LLC miss. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240628005558.3835480-2-seanjc@google.com Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
-rw-r--r--tools/testing/selftests/kvm/x86_64/pmu_counters_test.c28
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/x86_64/pmu_counters_test.c b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/x86_64/pmu_counters_test.c
index 96446134c00b..bb40d7c0f83e 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/x86_64/pmu_counters_test.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/x86_64/pmu_counters_test.c
@@ -7,15 +7,25 @@
#include "pmu.h"
#include "processor.h"
-/* Number of LOOP instructions for the guest measurement payload. */
-#define NUM_BRANCHES 10
+/* Number of iterations of the loop for the guest measurement payload. */
+#define NUM_LOOPS 10
+
+/* Each iteration of the loop retires one branch instruction. */
+#define NUM_BRANCH_INSNS_RETIRED (NUM_LOOPS)
+
+/* Number of instructions in each loop. */
+#define NUM_INSNS_PER_LOOP 1
+
/*
* Number of "extra" instructions that will be counted, i.e. the number of
- * instructions that are needed to set up the loop and then disabled the
+ * instructions that are needed to set up the loop and then disable the
* counter. 1 CLFLUSH/CLFLUSHOPT/NOP, 1 MFENCE, 2 MOV, 2 XOR, 1 WRMSR.
*/
-#define NUM_EXTRA_INSNS 7
-#define NUM_INSNS_RETIRED (NUM_BRANCHES + NUM_EXTRA_INSNS)
+#define NUM_EXTRA_INSNS 7
+
+/* Total number of instructions retired within the measured section. */
+#define NUM_INSNS_RETIRED (NUM_LOOPS * NUM_INSNS_PER_LOOP + NUM_EXTRA_INSNS)
+
static uint8_t kvm_pmu_version;
static bool kvm_has_perf_caps;
@@ -100,7 +110,7 @@ static void guest_assert_event_count(uint8_t idx,
GUEST_ASSERT_EQ(count, NUM_INSNS_RETIRED);
break;
case INTEL_ARCH_BRANCHES_RETIRED_INDEX:
- GUEST_ASSERT_EQ(count, NUM_BRANCHES);
+ GUEST_ASSERT_EQ(count, NUM_BRANCH_INSNS_RETIRED);
break;
case INTEL_ARCH_LLC_REFERENCES_INDEX:
case INTEL_ARCH_LLC_MISSES_INDEX:
@@ -120,7 +130,7 @@ static void guest_assert_event_count(uint8_t idx,
}
sanity_checks:
- __asm__ __volatile__("loop ." : "+c"((int){NUM_BRANCHES}));
+ __asm__ __volatile__("loop ." : "+c"((int){NUM_LOOPS}));
GUEST_ASSERT_EQ(_rdpmc(pmc), count);
wrmsr(pmc_msr, 0xdead);
@@ -147,7 +157,7 @@ do { \
__asm__ __volatile__("wrmsr\n\t" \
clflush "\n\t" \
"mfence\n\t" \
- "1: mov $" __stringify(NUM_BRANCHES) ", %%ecx\n\t" \
+ "1: mov $" __stringify(NUM_LOOPS) ", %%ecx\n\t" \
FEP "loop .\n\t" \
FEP "mov %%edi, %%ecx\n\t" \
FEP "xor %%eax, %%eax\n\t" \
@@ -500,7 +510,7 @@ static void guest_test_fixed_counters(void)
wrmsr(MSR_CORE_PERF_FIXED_CTR0 + i, 0);
wrmsr(MSR_CORE_PERF_FIXED_CTR_CTRL, FIXED_PMC_CTRL(i, FIXED_PMC_KERNEL));
wrmsr(MSR_CORE_PERF_GLOBAL_CTRL, FIXED_PMC_GLOBAL_CTRL_ENABLE(i));
- __asm__ __volatile__("loop ." : "+c"((int){NUM_BRANCHES}));
+ __asm__ __volatile__("loop ." : "+c"((int){NUM_LOOPS}));
wrmsr(MSR_CORE_PERF_GLOBAL_CTRL, 0);
val = rdmsr(MSR_CORE_PERF_FIXED_CTR0 + i);