linux/virt/kvm
Jing Zhang cb082bfab5 KVM: stats: Add fd-based API to read binary stats data
This commit defines the API for userspace and prepare the common
functionalities to support per VM/VCPU binary stats data readings.

The KVM stats now is only accessible by debugfs, which has some
shortcomings this change series are supposed to fix:
1. The current debugfs stats solution in KVM could be disabled
   when kernel Lockdown mode is enabled, which is a potential
   rick for production.
2. The current debugfs stats solution in KVM is organized as "one
   stats per file", it is good for debugging, but not efficient
   for production.
3. The stats read/clear in current debugfs solution in KVM are
   protected by the global kvm_lock.

Besides that, there are some other benefits with this change:
1. All KVM VM/VCPU stats can be read out in a bulk by one copy
   to userspace.
2. A schema is used to describe KVM statistics. From userspace's
   perspective, the KVM statistics are self-describing.
3. With the fd-based solution, a separate telemetry would be able
   to read KVM stats in a less privileged environment.
4. After the initial setup by reading in stats descriptors, a
   telemetry only needs to read the stats data itself, no more
   parsing or setup is needed.

Reviewed-by: David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Ricardo Koller <ricarkol@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Krish Sadhukhan <krish.sadhukhan@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Fuad Tabba <tabba@google.com>
Tested-by: Fuad Tabba <tabba@google.com> #arm64
Signed-off-by: Jing Zhang <jingzhangos@google.com>
Message-Id: <20210618222709.1858088-3-jingzhangos@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2021-06-24 11:47:57 -04:00
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async_pf.c mm/gup: remove task_struct pointer for all gup code 2020-08-12 10:58:04 -07:00
async_pf.h treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 504 2019-06-19 17:09:56 +02:00
binary_stats.c KVM: stats: Add fd-based API to read binary stats data 2021-06-24 11:47:57 -04:00
coalesced_mmio.c KVM: Stop looking for coalesced MMIO zones if the bus is destroyed 2021-04-20 04:18:51 -04:00
coalesced_mmio.h License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
dirty_ring.c KVM: x86/mmu: Use an rwlock for the x86 MMU 2021-02-04 05:27:43 -05:00
eventfd.c kvm/eventfd: Drain events from eventfd in irqfd_wakeup() 2020-11-15 09:49:11 -05:00
irqchip.c KVM/arm updates for 5.3 2019-07-11 15:14:16 +02:00
Kconfig kvm: add PM-notifier 2021-06-17 13:09:32 -04:00
kvm_main.c KVM: stats: Separate generic stats from architecture specific ones 2021-06-24 11:47:56 -04:00
mmu_lock.h KVM: x86/mmu: Use an rwlock for the x86 MMU 2021-02-04 05:27:43 -05:00
vfio.c treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 500 2019-06-19 17:09:55 +02:00
vfio.h License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00