perf/x86/kvm: Avoid unnecessary work in guest filtering

KVM added a workaround for PEBS events leaking into guests with
commit:

  26a4f3c08de4 ("perf/x86: disable PEBS on a guest entry.")

This uses the VT entry/exit list to add an extra disable of the
PEBS_ENABLE MSR.

Intel also added a fix for this issue to microcode updates on
Haswell/Broadwell/Skylake.

It turns out using the MSR entry/exit list makes VM exits
significantly slower. The list is only needed for disabling
PEBS, because the GLOBAL_CTRL change gets optimized by
KVM into changing the VMCS.

Check for the microcode updates that have the microcode
fix for leaking PEBS, and disable the extra entry/exit list
entry for PEBS_ENABLE. In addition we always clear the
GLOBAL_CTRL for the PEBS counter while running in the guest,
which is enough to make them never fire at the wrong
side of the host/guest transition.

The overhead for VM exits with the filtering active with the patch is
reduced from 8% to 4%.

The microcode patch has already been merged into future platforms.
This patch is one-off thing. The quirks is used here.

For other old platforms which doesn't have microcode patch and quirks,
extra disable of the PEBS_ENABLE MSR is still required.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Cc: bp@alien8.de
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1549319013-4522-2-git-send-email-kan.liang@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/events/intel/ds.c b/arch/x86/events/intel/ds.c
index e9acf1d2e7b2..10c99ce1fead 100644
--- a/arch/x86/events/intel/ds.c
+++ b/arch/x86/events/intel/ds.c
@@ -1628,6 +1628,8 @@ void __init intel_ds_init(void)
 	x86_pmu.bts  = boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_BTS);
 	x86_pmu.pebs = boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_PEBS);
 	x86_pmu.pebs_buffer_size = PEBS_BUFFER_SIZE;
+	if (x86_pmu.version <= 4)
+		x86_pmu.pebs_no_isolation = 1;
 	if (x86_pmu.pebs) {
 		char pebs_type = x86_pmu.intel_cap.pebs_trap ?  '+' : '-';
 		int format = x86_pmu.intel_cap.pebs_format;