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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 1/3] x86/vpmu: Calculate vpmu_enabled() based on vpmu_mode value





On 02/13/2017 09:44 AM, Jan Beulich wrote:
On 13.02.17 at 15:38, <boris.ostrovsky@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 02/13/2017 07:50 AM, Jan Beulich wrote:
On 13.02.17 at 03:29, <boris.ostrovsky@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
vpmu_enabled() is currently reported based on VPMU_CONTEXT_ALLOCATED
bit of VPMU's flags. This presents a problem on Intel processors where
VPMU context is allocated lazily, during the first access to VPMU MSRs.
With such delayed allocation we, for example, cannot properly report
CPUID's leaf 0xa since it is likely that the leaf is queried by a
guest before the guest attempts ro read or write the MSR.

Instead of keying vpmu_enabled() off the flags we should compute it
based on vpmu_mode.

Doesn't this have its own downsides? What if the mode changes
behind the back of a DomU? While certain mode changes are
disallowed while there are active users, there's nothing preventing
mode or features from changing between a DomU querying CPUID
and enabling the vPMU.

As you said, the mode can't change after a domU VCPU has been
initialized, i.e. before the VCPU started running.

I don't understand this last part - how is this related to the vCPU
starting to run? Doesn't at least PV initiate the initialization via
hypercall?

Oh, right. Then looking at arch_vpmu_ops will not work neither for exactly the same reason --- the hypercall initializing VPMU may come after CPUID.

-boris

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