linux/include
Jim Mattson a7cec20845 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>
History 2025-07-09 09:33:37 -07:00
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acpi Merge branches 'acpi-processor' and 'acpi-cppc' 2025-05-26 18:37:38 +02:00
asm-generic hyperv-next for v6.16 2025-06-03 08:39:20 -07:00
clocksource KVM/arm64 updates for 6.14 2025-01-28 09:01:36 -08:00
crypto Networking changes for 6.16. 2025-05-28 15:24:36 -07:00
cxl cxl/features: Remove the inline specifier from to_cxlfs() 2025-05-22 07:39:01 -07:00
drm drm for 6.16-rc1 2025-05-28 09:46:39 -07:00
dt-bindings USB/Thunderbolt changes for 6.16-rc1 2025-06-06 12:45:35 -07:00
hyperv hyperv-next for v6.16 2025-06-03 08:39:20 -07:00
keys rxrpc: Add YFS RxGK (GSSAPI) security class 2025-04-14 17:36:41 -07:00
kunit I've recently moved computers (among other things) so I'm sending this from a 2025-05-30 09:15:40 -07:00
kvm KVM: arm64: Resolve vLPI by host IRQ in vgic_v4_unset_forwarding() 2025-05-30 09:11:29 +01:00
linux block-6.16-20250614 2025-06-14 09:25:22 -07:00
math-emu powerpc/math-emu: Remove -w build flag and fix warnings 2022-09-05 17:28:25 +10:00
media media: common: Add v4l2_find_nearest_size_conditional() 2025-05-06 13:06:30 +02:00
memory memory: renesas-rpc-if: Add RZ/G3E xSPI support 2025-05-01 12:22:25 +02:00
misc cxl: Remove driver 2025-03-16 22:04:27 +11:00
net bluetooth pull request for net: 2025-06-12 08:13:48 -07:00
pcmcia ARM: pxa/sa1100: move I/O space to PCI_IOBASE 2022-05-07 22:56:17 +02:00
ras PCI/ERR: Handle TLP Log in Flit mode 2025-02-21 17:31:45 -06:00
rdma Linux 6.15 2025-05-26 15:33:52 -03:00
rv rv: Reset per-task monitors also for idle tasks 2025-01-23 12:16:04 -05:00
scsi SCSI misc on 20250529 2025-05-29 22:17:52 -07:00
soc - The 3 patch series "hung_task: extend blocking task stacktrace dump to 2025-05-31 19:12:53 -07:00
sound USB/Thunderbolt changes for 6.16-rc1 2025-06-06 12:45:35 -07:00
target scsi: target: core: Constify enabled() in struct target_opcode_descriptor 2025-05-20 22:11:03 -04:00
trace tracing fixes: 2025-06-08 08:19:01 -07:00
uapi KVM: x86: Provide a capability to disable APERF/MPERF read intercepts 2025-07-09 09:33:37 -07:00
ufs Merge branch '6.15/scsi-fixes' into 6.16/scsi-staging 2025-04-28 20:56:57 -04:00
vdso vdso: Address variable shadowing in macros 2025-04-10 11:07:10 +02:00
video fbdev: atyfb: Remove unused PCI vendor ID 2025-05-31 10:24:01 +02:00
xen xen/mcelog: Add __nonstring annotations for unterminated strings 2025-03-14 11:15:16 +01:00
Kbuild drm: ensure drm headers are self-contained and pass kernel-doc 2025-02-12 10:44:43 +02:00