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| author | Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com> | 2025-06-26 03:12:22 +0300 |
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| committer | Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> | 2025-07-09 19:33:37 +0300 |
| commit | a7cec20845a67ff4f3c924255519341f37d993f9 (patch) | |
| tree | 811488f265b42965466ce53a200c2dee0ce867c0 /tools/include/uapi | |
| parent | 6fbef8615d3588450045f014c6015d0beeff6cf2 (diff) | |
| download | linux-a7cec20845a67ff4f3c924255519341f37d993f9.tar.xz | |
KVM: x86: Provide a capability to disable APERF/MPERF read intercepts
Allow a guest to read the physical IA32_APERF and IA32_MPERF MSRs
without interception.
The IA32_APERF and IA32_MPERF MSRs are not virtualized. Writes are not
handled at all. The MSR values are not zeroed on vCPU creation, saved
on suspend, or restored on resume. No accommodation is made for
processor migration or for sharing a logical processor with other
tasks. No adjustments are made for non-unit TSC multipliers. The MSRs
do not account for time the same way as the comparable PMU events,
whether the PMU is virtualized by the traditional emulation method or
the new mediated pass-through approach.
Nonetheless, in a properly constrained environment, this capability
can be combined with a guest CPUID table that advertises support for
CPUID.6:ECX.APERFMPERF[bit 0] to induce a Linux guest to report the
effective physical CPU frequency in /proc/cpuinfo. Moreover, there is
no performance cost for this capability.
Signed-off-by: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250530185239.2335185-3-jmattson@google.com
Reviewed-by: Xiaoyao Li <xiaoyao.li@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250626001225.744268-3-seanjc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/include/uapi')
| -rw-r--r-- | tools/include/uapi/linux/kvm.h | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/tools/include/uapi/linux/kvm.h b/tools/include/uapi/linux/kvm.h index b6ae8ad8934b..eef57c117140 100644 --- a/tools/include/uapi/linux/kvm.h +++ b/tools/include/uapi/linux/kvm.h @@ -617,6 +617,7 @@ struct kvm_ioeventfd { #define KVM_X86_DISABLE_EXITS_HLT (1 << 1) #define KVM_X86_DISABLE_EXITS_PAUSE (1 << 2) #define KVM_X86_DISABLE_EXITS_CSTATE (1 << 3) +#define KVM_X86_DISABLE_EXITS_APERFMPERF (1 << 4) /* for KVM_ENABLE_CAP */ struct kvm_enable_cap { |