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Sean Christopherson 9ca0910b2d KVM: x86/pmu: Disable vPMU support on hybrid CPUs (host PMUs) 
commit 4d7404e5ee upstream.

Disable KVM support for virtualizing PMUs on hosts with hybrid PMUs until
KVM gains a sane way to enumeration the hybrid vPMU to userspace and/or
gains a mechanism to let userspace opt-in to the dangers of exposing a
hybrid vPMU to KVM guests.  Virtualizing a hybrid PMU, or at least part of
a hybrid PMU, is possible, but it requires careful, deliberate
configuration from userspace.

E.g. to expose full functionality, vCPUs need to be pinned to pCPUs to
prevent migrating a vCPU between a big core and a little core, userspace
must enumerate a reasonable topology to the guest, and guest CPUID must be
curated per vCPU to enumerate accurate vPMU capabilities.

The last point is especially problematic, as KVM doesn't control which
pCPU it runs on when enumerating KVM's vPMU capabilities to userspace,
i.e. userspace can't rely on KVM_GET_SUPPORTED_CPUID in it's current form.

Alternatively, userspace could enable vPMU support by enumerating the
set of features that are common and coherent across all cores, e.g. by
filtering PMU events and restricting guest capabilities.  But again, that
requires userspace to take action far beyond reflecting KVM's supported
feature set into the guest.

For now, simply disable vPMU support on hybrid CPUs to avoid inducing
seemingly random #GPs in guests, and punt support for hybrid CPUs to a
future enabling effort.

Reported-by: Jianfeng Gao <jianfeng.gao@intel.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Andrew Cooper <Andrew.Cooper3@citrix.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220818181530.2355034-1-kan.liang@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Message-Id: <20230208204230.1360502-2-seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
History 2023-02-22 12:59:55 +01:00
arch KVM: x86/pmu: Disable vPMU support on hybrid CPUs (host PMUs) 2023-02-22 12:59:55 +01:00
block block, bfq: fix uaf for bfqq in bic_set_bfqq() 2023-02-09 11:28:06 +01:00
certs certs: Fix build error when PKCS#11 URI contains semicolon 2023-02-09 11:28:11 +01:00
crypto use less confusing names for iov_iter direction initializers 2023-02-09 11:28:04 +01:00
Documentation Documentation/hw-vuln: Add documentation for Cross-Thread Return Predictions 2023-02-14 19:11:56 +01:00
drivers nvme-rdma: stop auth work after tearing down queues in error recovery 2023-02-22 12:59:55 +01:00
fs revert "squashfs: harden sanity check in squashfs_read_xattr_id_table" 2023-02-22 12:59:50 +01:00
include mm: extend max struct page size for kmsan 2023-02-22 12:59:54 +01:00
init gcc: disable -Warray-bounds for gcc-11 too 2023-01-14 10:33:43 +01:00
io_uring use less confusing names for iov_iter direction initializers 2023-02-09 11:28:04 +01:00
ipc ipc: fix memory leak in init_mqueue_fs() 2022-12-31 13:32:01 +01:00
kernel tracing: Make trace_define_field_ext() static 2023-02-22 12:59:53 +01:00
lib maple_tree: fix mas_empty_area_rev() lower bound validation 2023-02-09 11:28:23 +01:00
LICENSES LICENSES/LGPL-2.1: Add LGPL-2.1-or-later as valid identifiers 2021-12-16 14:33:10 +01:00
mm mm/gup: add folio to list when folio_isolate_lru() succeed 2023-02-22 12:59:54 +01:00
net net/sched: tcindex: search key must be 16 bits 2023-02-22 12:59:55 +01:00
rust rust: print: avoid evaluating arguments in pr_* macros in unsafe blocks 2023-02-06 08:06:34 +01:00
samples ftrace: Export ftrace_free_filter() to modules 2023-02-01 08:34:37 +01:00
scripts kbuild: modinst: Fix build error when CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_KEY is a PKCS#11 URI 2023-02-09 11:28:11 +01:00
security use less confusing names for iov_iter direction initializers 2023-02-09 11:28:04 +01:00
sound ALSA: hda/realtek: Enable mute/micmute LEDs and speaker support for HP Laptops 2023-02-22 12:59:48 +01:00
tools Revert "mm: Always release pages to the buddy allocator in memblock_free_late()." 2023-02-22 12:59:50 +01:00
usr usr/gen_init_cpio.c: remove unnecessary -1 values from int file 2022-10-03 14:21:44 -07:00
virt kvm/vfio: Fix potential deadlock on vfio group_lock 2023-02-01 08:34:36 +01:00
.clang-format inet: ping: use hlist_nulls rcu iterator during lookup 2022-12-01 12:42:46 +01:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore get_maintainer: add Alan to .get_maintainer.ignore 2022-08-20 15:17:44 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: use 'dts' diff driver for dts files 2019-12-04 19:44:11 -08:00
.gitignore Kbuild: add Rust support 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
.mailmap 9 hotfixes. 6 for MM, 3 for other areas. Four of these patches address 2022-12-10 17:10:52 -08:00
.rustfmt.toml rust: add .rustfmt.toml 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: Remove Michal Marek from Kbuild maintainers 2022-11-16 14:53:00 +09:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v6.1 2022-10-10 12:00:45 -07:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS panic: Expose "warn_count" to sysfs 2023-01-24 07:24:41 +01:00
Makefile Linux 6.1.12 2023-02-14 19:11:56 +01:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

README 

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.