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In addition to DEBUGCTLMSR_LBR, any KVM trap caused by LBR msrs access will result in a creation of guest LBR event per-vcpu. If the guest LBR event is scheduled on with the corresponding vcpu context, KVM will pass-through all LBR records msrs to the guest. The LBR callstack mechanism implemented in the host could help save/restore the guest LBR records during the event context switches, which reduces a lot of overhead if we save/restore tens of LBR msrs (e.g. 32 LBR records entries) in the much more frequent VMX transitions. To avoid reclaiming LBR resources from any higher priority event on host, KVM would always check the exist of guest LBR event and its state before vm-entry as late as possible. A negative result would cancel the pass-through state, and it also prevents real registers accesses and potential data leakage. If host reclaims the LBR between two checks, the interception state and LBR records can be safely preserved due to native save/restore support from guest LBR event. The KVM emits a pr_warn() when the LBR hardware is unavailable to the guest LBR event. The administer is supposed to reminder users that the guest result may be inaccurate if someone is using LBR to record hypervisor on the host side. Suggested-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Co-developed-by: Wei Wang <wei.w.wang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Wei Wang <wei.w.wang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Like Xu <like.xu@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Message-Id: <20210201051039.255478-7-like.xu@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> |
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Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.