linux/arch/x86
Like Xu b35e5548b4 KVM: x86/vPMU: Add lazy mechanism to release perf_event per vPMC
Currently, a host perf_event is created for a vPMC functionality emulation.
It’s unpredictable to determine if a disabled perf_event will be reused.
If they are disabled and are not reused for a considerable period of time,
those obsolete perf_events would increase host context switch overhead that
could have been avoided.

If the guest doesn't WRMSR any of the vPMC's MSRs during an entire vcpu
sched time slice, and its independent enable bit of the vPMC isn't set,
we can predict that the guest has finished the use of this vPMC, and then
do request KVM_REQ_PMU in kvm_arch_sched_in and release those perf_events
in the first call of kvm_pmu_handle_event() after the vcpu is scheduled in.

This lazy mechanism delays the event release time to the beginning of the
next scheduled time slice if vPMC's MSRs aren't changed during this time
slice. If guest comes back to use this vPMC in next time slice, a new perf
event would be re-created via perf_event_create_kernel_counter() as usual.

Suggested-by: Wei Wang <wei.w.wang@intel.com>
Suggested-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Like Xu <like.xu@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2019-11-15 11:44:10 +01:00
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boot x86/boot/acpi: Move get_cmdline_acpi_rsdp() under #ifdef guard 2019-10-18 13:33:38 +02:00
configs
crypto crypto: x86/aes-ni - use AES library instead of single-use AES cipher 2019-09-09 23:48:41 +10:00
entry Kbuild updates for v5.4 2019-09-20 08:36:47 -07:00
events x86: retpolines: eliminate retpoline from msr event handlers 2019-11-15 11:43:58 +01:00
hyperv x86/hyperv: Make vapic support x2apic mode 2019-10-15 10:57:09 +02:00
ia32 clone: fix CLONE_PIDFD support 2019-07-14 20:36:12 +02:00
include KVM: x86/vPMU: Add lazy mechanism to release perf_event per vPMC 2019-11-15 11:44:10 +01:00
kernel x86/kvm: Fix -Wmissing-prototypes warnings 2019-10-25 14:01:14 +02:00
kvm KVM: x86/vPMU: Add lazy mechanism to release perf_event per vPMC 2019-11-15 11:44:10 +01:00
lib x86/asm: Fix MWAITX C-state hint value 2019-10-08 13:25:24 +02:00
math-emu x86/fpu/math-emu: Address fallthrough warnings 2019-08-12 20:35:05 +02:00
mm Merge branch 'next-lockdown' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security 2019-09-28 08:14:15 -07:00
net bpf: fix x64 JIT code generation for jmp to 1st insn 2019-08-01 13:12:09 -07:00
oprofile
pci dma-mapping updates for 5.4: 2019-09-19 13:27:23 -07:00
platform efi/x86: Do not clean dummy variable in kexec path 2019-10-07 15:24:36 +02:00
power Merge branch 'x86-apic-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2019-09-17 12:04:39 -07:00
purgatory Merge branch 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2019-09-28 13:37:41 -07:00
ras
realmode x86/realmode: Remove trampoline_status 2019-07-22 11:30:18 +02:00
tools Merge branch 'x86-paravirt-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2019-07-08 17:34:44 -07:00
um um: Use real DMA barriers 2019-09-15 21:37:14 +02:00
video
xen xen: fixes for 5.4-rc3 2019-10-12 14:11:21 -07:00
.gitignore
Kbuild
Kconfig Merge branch 'next-lockdown' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security 2019-09-28 08:14:15 -07:00
Kconfig.cpu
Kconfig.debug x86, perf: Fix the dependency of the x86 insn decoder selftest 2019-09-02 20:05:58 +02:00
Makefile x86/build: Add -Wnoaddress-of-packed-member to REALMODE_CFLAGS, to silence GCC9 build warning 2019-08-28 17:31:31 +02:00
Makefile_32.cpu
Makefile.um