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From: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
To: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Xiong Zhang <xiong.y.zhang@linux.intel.com>,
	pbonzini@redhat.com,  peterz@infradead.org, mizhang@google.com,
	kan.liang@intel.com,  zhenyuw@linux.intel.com,
	dapeng1.mi@linux.intel.com, jmattson@google.com,
	 kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org,
	 linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, zhiyuan.lv@intel.com,
	eranian@google.com,  irogers@google.com, samantha.alt@intel.com,
	like.xu.linux@gmail.com,  chao.gao@intel.com
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 02/41] perf: Support guest enter/exit interfaces
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2024 12:17:01 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZhmIrQQVgblrhCZs@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <23af8648-ca9f-41d2-8782-f2ffc3c11e9e@linux.intel.com>

On Thu, Apr 11, 2024, Kan Liang wrote:
> >> +/*
> >> + * When a guest enters, force all active events of the PMU, which supports
> >> + * the VPMU_PASSTHROUGH feature, to be scheduled out. The events of other
> >> + * PMUs, such as uncore PMU, should not be impacted. The guest can
> >> + * temporarily own all counters of the PMU.
> >> + * During the period, all the creation of the new event of the PMU with
> >> + * !exclude_guest are error out.
> >> + */
> >> +void perf_guest_enter(void)
> >> +{
> >> +	struct perf_cpu_context *cpuctx = this_cpu_ptr(&perf_cpu_context);
> >> +
> >> +	lockdep_assert_irqs_disabled();
> >> +
> >> +	if (__this_cpu_read(__perf_force_exclude_guest))
> > 
> > This should be a WARN_ON_ONCE, no?
> 
> To debug the improper behavior of KVM?

Not so much "debug" as ensure that the platform owner noticies that KVM is buggy.

> >> +static inline int perf_force_exclude_guest_check(struct perf_event *event,
> >> +						 int cpu, struct task_struct *task)
> >> +{
> >> +	bool *force_exclude_guest = NULL;
> >> +
> >> +	if (!has_vpmu_passthrough_cap(event->pmu))
> >> +		return 0;
> >> +
> >> +	if (event->attr.exclude_guest)
> >> +		return 0;
> >> +
> >> +	if (cpu != -1) {
> >> +		force_exclude_guest = per_cpu_ptr(&__perf_force_exclude_guest, cpu);
> >> +	} else if (task && (task->flags & PF_VCPU)) {
> >> +		/*
> >> +		 * Just need to check the running CPU in the event creation. If the
> >> +		 * task is moved to another CPU which supports the force_exclude_guest.
> >> +		 * The event will filtered out and be moved to the error stage. See
> >> +		 * merge_sched_in().
> >> +		 */
> >> +		force_exclude_guest = per_cpu_ptr(&__perf_force_exclude_guest, task_cpu(task));
> >> +	}
> > 
> > These checks are extremely racy, I don't see how this can possibly do the
> > right thing.  PF_VCPU isn't a "this is a vCPU task", it's a "this task is about
> > to do VM-Enter, or just took a VM-Exit" (the "I'm a virtual CPU" comment in
> > include/linux/sched.h is wildly misleading, as it's _only_ valid when accounting
> > time slices).
> >
> 
> This is to reject an !exclude_guest event creation for a running
> "passthrough" guest from host perf tool.
> Could you please suggest a way to detect it via the struct task_struct?
> 
> > Digging deeper, I think __perf_force_exclude_guest has similar problems, e.g.
> > perf_event_create_kernel_counter() calls perf_event_alloc() before acquiring the
> > per-CPU context mutex.
> 
> Do you mean that the perf_guest_enter() check could be happened right
> after the perf_force_exclude_guest_check()?
> It's possible. For this case, the event can still be created. It will be
> treated as an existing event and handled in merge_sched_in(). It will
> never be scheduled when a guest is running.
> 
> The perf_force_exclude_guest_check() is to make sure most of the cases
> can be rejected at the creation place. For the corner cases, they will
> be rejected in the schedule stage.

Ah, the "rejected in the schedule stage" is what I'm missing.  But that creates
a gross ABI, because IIUC, event creation will "randomly" succeed based on whether
or not a CPU happens to be running in a KVM guest.  I.e. it's not just the kernel
code that has races, the entire event creation is one big race.

What if perf had a global knob to enable/disable mediate PMU support?  Then when
KVM is loaded with enable_mediated_true, call into perf to (a) check that there
are no existing !exclude_guest events (this part could be optional), and (b) set
the global knob to reject all new !exclude_guest events (for the core PMU?).

Hmm, or probably better, do it at VM creation.  That has the advantage of playing
nice with CONFIG_KVM=y (perf could reject the enabling without completely breaking
KVM), and not causing problems if KVM is auto-probed but the user doesn't actually
want to run VMs.

E.g. (very roughly)

int x86_perf_get_mediated_pmu(void)
{
	if (refcount_inc_not_zero(...))
		return 0;

	if (<system wide events>)
		return -EBUSY;

	<slow path with locking>
}

void x86_perf_put_mediated_pmu(void)
{
	if (!refcount_dec_and_test(...))
		return;

	<slow path with locking>
}

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
index 1bbf312cbd73..f2994377ef44 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
@@ -12467,6 +12467,12 @@ int kvm_arch_init_vm(struct kvm *kvm, unsigned long type)
        if (type)
                return -EINVAL;
 
+       if (enable_mediated_pmu)
+               ret = x86_perf_get_mediated_pmu();
+               if (ret)
+                       return ret;
+       }
+
        ret = kvm_page_track_init(kvm);
        if (ret)
                goto out;
@@ -12518,6 +12524,7 @@ int kvm_arch_init_vm(struct kvm *kvm, unsigned long type)
        kvm_mmu_uninit_vm(kvm);
        kvm_page_track_cleanup(kvm);
 out:
+       x86_perf_put_mediated_pmu();
        return ret;
 }
 
@@ -12659,6 +12666,7 @@ void kvm_arch_destroy_vm(struct kvm *kvm)
        kvm_page_track_cleanup(kvm);
        kvm_xen_destroy_vm(kvm);
        kvm_hv_destroy_vm(kvm);
+       x86_perf_put_mediated_pmu();
 }
 
 static void memslot_rmap_free(struct kvm_memory_slot *slot)


  reply	other threads:[~2024-04-12 19:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 181+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-01-26  8:54 [RFC PATCH 00/41] KVM: x86/pmu: Introduce passthrough vPM Xiong Zhang
2024-01-26  8:54 ` [RFC PATCH 01/41] perf: x86/intel: Support PERF_PMU_CAP_VPMU_PASSTHROUGH Xiong Zhang
2024-04-11 17:04   ` Sean Christopherson
2024-04-11 17:21     ` Liang, Kan
2024-04-11 17:24       ` Jim Mattson
2024-04-11 17:46         ` Sean Christopherson
2024-04-11 19:13           ` Liang, Kan
2024-04-11 20:43             ` Sean Christopherson
2024-04-11 21:04               ` Liang, Kan
2024-04-11 19:32           ` Sean Christopherson
2024-01-26  8:54 ` [RFC PATCH 02/41] perf: Support guest enter/exit interfaces Xiong Zhang
2024-03-20 16:40   ` Raghavendra Rao Ananta
2024-03-20 17:12     ` Liang, Kan
2024-04-11 18:06   ` Sean Christopherson
2024-04-11 19:53     ` Liang, Kan
2024-04-12 19:17       ` Sean Christopherson [this message]
2024-04-12 20:56         ` Liang, Kan
2024-04-15 16:03           ` Liang, Kan
2024-04-16  5:34             ` Zhang, Xiong Y
2024-04-16 12:48               ` Liang, Kan
2024-04-17  9:42                 ` Zhang, Xiong Y
2024-04-18 16:11                   ` Sean Christopherson
2024-04-19  1:37                     ` Zhang, Xiong Y
2024-04-26  4:09       ` Zhang, Xiong Y
2024-01-26  8:54 ` [RFC PATCH 03/41] perf: Set exclude_guest onto nmi_watchdog Xiong Zhang
2024-04-11 18:56   ` Sean Christopherson
2024-01-26  8:54 ` [RFC PATCH 04/41] perf: core/x86: Add support to register a new vector for PMI handling Xiong Zhang
2024-04-11 17:10   ` Sean Christopherson
2024-04-11 19:05     ` Sean Christopherson
2024-04-12  3:56     ` Zhang, Xiong Y
2024-04-13  1:17       ` Mi, Dapeng
2024-01-26  8:54 ` [RFC PATCH 05/41] KVM: x86/pmu: Register PMI handler for passthrough PMU Xiong Zhang
2024-04-11 19:07   ` Sean Christopherson
2024-04-12  5:44     ` Zhang, Xiong Y
2024-01-26  8:54 ` [RFC PATCH 06/41] perf: x86: Add function to switch PMI handler Xiong Zhang
2024-04-11 19:17   ` Sean Christopherson
2024-04-11 19:34     ` Sean Christopherson
2024-04-12  6:03       ` Zhang, Xiong Y
2024-04-12  5:57     ` Zhang, Xiong Y
2024-01-26  8:54 ` [RFC PATCH 07/41] perf/x86: Add interface to reflect virtual LVTPC_MASK bit onto HW Xiong Zhang
2024-04-11 19:21   ` Sean Christopherson
2024-04-12  6:17     ` Zhang, Xiong Y
2024-01-26  8:54 ` [RFC PATCH 08/41] KVM: x86/pmu: Add get virtual LVTPC_MASK bit function Xiong Zhang
2024-04-11 19:22   ` Sean Christopherson
2024-01-26  8:54 ` [RFC PATCH 09/41] perf: core/x86: Forbid PMI handler when guest own PMU Xiong Zhang
2024-04-11 19:26   ` Sean Christopherson
2024-01-26  8:54 ` [RFC PATCH 10/41] perf: core/x86: Plumb passthrough PMU capability from x86_pmu to x86_pmu_cap Xiong Zhang
2024-01-26  8:54 ` [RFC PATCH 11/41] KVM: x86/pmu: Introduce enable_passthrough_pmu module parameter and propage to KVM instance Xiong Zhang
2024-04-11 20:54   ` Sean Christopherson
2024-04-11 21:03   ` Sean Christopherson
2024-01-26  8:54 ` [RFC PATCH 12/41] KVM: x86/pmu: Plumb through passthrough PMU to vcpu for Intel CPUs Xiong Zhang
2024-04-11 20:57   ` Sean Christopherson
2024-01-26  8:54 ` [RFC PATCH 13/41] KVM: x86/pmu: Add a helper to check if passthrough PMU is enabled Xiong Zhang
2024-01-26  8:54 ` [RFC PATCH 14/41] KVM: x86/pmu: Allow RDPMC pass through Xiong Zhang
2024-01-26  8:54 ` [RFC PATCH 15/41] KVM: x86/pmu: Manage MSR interception for IA32_PERF_GLOBAL_CTRL Xiong Zhang
2024-04-11 21:21   ` Sean Christopherson
2024-04-11 22:30     ` Jim Mattson
2024-04-11 23:27       ` Sean Christopherson
2024-04-13  2:10       ` Mi, Dapeng
2024-01-26  8:54 ` [RFC PATCH 16/41] KVM: x86/pmu: Create a function prototype to disable MSR interception Xiong Zhang
2024-01-26  8:54 ` [RFC PATCH 17/41] KVM: x86/pmu: Implement pmu function for Intel CPU " Xiong Zhang
2024-01-26  8:54 ` [RFC PATCH 18/41] KVM: x86/pmu: Intercept full-width GP counter MSRs by checking with perf capabilities Xiong Zhang
2024-04-11 21:23   ` Sean Christopherson
2024-04-11 21:50     ` Jim Mattson
2024-04-12 16:01       ` Sean Christopherson
2024-01-26  8:54 ` [RFC PATCH 19/41] KVM: x86/pmu: Whitelist PMU MSRs for passthrough PMU Xiong Zhang
2024-01-26  8:54 ` [RFC PATCH 20/41] KVM: x86/pmu: Introduce PMU operation prototypes for save/restore PMU context Xiong Zhang
2024-01-26  8:54 ` [RFC PATCH 21/41] KVM: x86/pmu: Introduce function prototype for Intel CPU to " Xiong Zhang
2024-01-26  8:54 ` [RFC PATCH 22/41] x86: Introduce MSR_CORE_PERF_GLOBAL_STATUS_SET for passthrough PMU Xiong Zhang
2024-01-26  8:54 ` [RFC PATCH 23/41] KVM: x86/pmu: Implement the save/restore of PMU state for Intel CPU Xiong Zhang
2024-04-11 21:26   ` Sean Christopherson
2024-04-13  2:29     ` Mi, Dapeng
2024-04-11 21:44   ` Sean Christopherson
2024-04-11 22:19     ` Jim Mattson
2024-04-11 23:31       ` Sean Christopherson
2024-04-13  3:19         ` Mi, Dapeng
2024-04-13  3:03     ` Mi, Dapeng
2024-04-13  3:34       ` Mingwei Zhang
2024-04-13  4:25         ` Mi, Dapeng
2024-04-15  6:06           ` Mingwei Zhang
2024-04-15 10:04             ` Mi, Dapeng
2024-04-15 16:44               ` Mingwei Zhang
2024-04-15 17:38                 ` Sean Christopherson
2024-04-15 17:54                   ` Mingwei Zhang
2024-04-15 22:45                     ` Sean Christopherson
2024-04-22  2:14                       ` maobibo
2024-04-22 17:01                         ` Sean Christopherson
2024-04-23  1:01                           ` maobibo
2024-04-23  2:44                             ` Mi, Dapeng
2024-04-23  2:53                               ` maobibo
2024-04-23  3:13                                 ` Mi, Dapeng
2024-04-23  3:26                                   ` maobibo
2024-04-23  3:59                                     ` Mi, Dapeng
2024-04-23  3:55                                   ` maobibo
2024-04-23  4:23                                     ` Mingwei Zhang
2024-04-23  6:08                                       ` maobibo
2024-04-23  6:45                                         ` Mi, Dapeng
2024-04-23  7:10                                           ` Mingwei Zhang
2024-04-23  8:24                                             ` Mi, Dapeng
2024-04-23  8:51                                               ` maobibo
2024-04-23 16:50                                               ` Mingwei Zhang
2024-04-23 12:12                                       ` maobibo
2024-04-23 17:02                                         ` Mingwei Zhang
2024-04-24  1:07                                           ` maobibo
2024-04-24  8:18                                           ` Mi, Dapeng
2024-04-24 15:00                                             ` Sean Christopherson
2024-04-25  3:55                                               ` Mi, Dapeng
2024-04-25  4:24                                                 ` Mingwei Zhang
2024-04-25 16:13                                                   ` Liang, Kan
2024-04-25 20:16                                                     ` Mingwei Zhang
2024-04-25 20:43                                                       ` Liang, Kan
2024-04-25 21:46                                                         ` Sean Christopherson
2024-04-26  1:46                                                           ` Mi, Dapeng
2024-04-26  3:12                                                             ` Mingwei Zhang
2024-04-26  4:02                                                               ` Mi, Dapeng
2024-04-26  4:46                                                                 ` Mingwei Zhang
2024-04-26 14:09                                                               ` Liang, Kan
2024-04-26 18:41                                                                 ` Mingwei Zhang
2024-04-26 19:06                                                                   ` Liang, Kan
2024-04-26 19:46                                                                     ` Sean Christopherson
2024-04-27  3:04                                                                       ` Mingwei Zhang
2024-04-28  0:58                                                                         ` Mi, Dapeng
2024-04-28  6:01                                                                           ` Mingwei Zhang
2024-04-29 17:44                                                                             ` Sean Christopherson
2024-05-01 17:43                                                                               ` Mingwei Zhang
2024-05-01 18:00                                                                                 ` Liang, Kan
2024-05-01 20:36                                                                                 ` Sean Christopherson
2024-04-29 13:08                                                                         ` Liang, Kan
2024-04-26 13:53                                                           ` Liang, Kan
2024-04-26  1:50                                                         ` Mi, Dapeng
2024-04-18 21:21                   ` Mingwei Zhang
2024-04-18 21:41                     ` Mingwei Zhang
2024-04-19  1:02                     ` Mi, Dapeng
2024-01-26  8:54 ` [RFC PATCH 24/41] KVM: x86/pmu: Zero out unexposed Counters/Selectors to avoid information leakage Xiong Zhang
2024-04-11 21:36   ` Sean Christopherson
2024-04-11 21:56     ` Jim Mattson
2024-01-26  8:54 ` [RFC PATCH 25/41] KVM: x86/pmu: Introduce macro PMU_CAP_PERF_METRICS Xiong Zhang
2024-01-26  8:54 ` [RFC PATCH 26/41] KVM: x86/pmu: Add host_perf_cap field in kvm_caps to record host PMU capability Xiong Zhang
2024-04-11 21:49   ` Sean Christopherson
2024-01-26  8:54 ` [RFC PATCH 27/41] KVM: x86/pmu: Clear PERF_METRICS MSR for guest Xiong Zhang
2024-04-11 21:50   ` Sean Christopherson
2024-04-13  3:29     ` Mi, Dapeng
2024-01-26  8:54 ` [RFC PATCH 28/41] KVM: x86/pmu: Switch IA32_PERF_GLOBAL_CTRL at VM boundary Xiong Zhang
2024-04-11 21:54   ` Sean Christopherson
2024-04-11 22:10     ` Jim Mattson
2024-04-11 22:54       ` Sean Christopherson
2024-04-11 23:08         ` Jim Mattson
2024-01-26  8:54 ` [RFC PATCH 29/41] KVM: x86/pmu: Exclude existing vLBR logic from the passthrough PMU Xiong Zhang
2024-01-26  8:54 ` [RFC PATCH 30/41] KVM: x86/pmu: Switch PMI handler at KVM context switch boundary Xiong Zhang
2024-01-26  8:54 ` [RFC PATCH 31/41] KVM: x86/pmu: Call perf_guest_enter() at PMU context switch Xiong Zhang
2024-01-26  8:54 ` [RFC PATCH 32/41] KVM: x86/pmu: Add support for PMU context switch at VM-exit/enter Xiong Zhang
2024-01-26  8:54 ` [RFC PATCH 33/41] KVM: x86/pmu: Make check_pmu_event_filter() an exported function Xiong Zhang
2024-01-26  8:54 ` [RFC PATCH 34/41] KVM: x86/pmu: Intercept EVENT_SELECT MSR Xiong Zhang
2024-04-11 21:55   ` Sean Christopherson
2024-01-26  8:54 ` [RFC PATCH 35/41] KVM: x86/pmu: Allow writing to event selector for GP counters if event is allowed Xiong Zhang
2024-01-26  8:54 ` [RFC PATCH 36/41] KVM: x86/pmu: Intercept FIXED_CTR_CTRL MSR Xiong Zhang
2024-04-11 21:56   ` Sean Christopherson
2024-01-26  8:54 ` [RFC PATCH 37/41] KVM: x86/pmu: Allow writing to fixed counter selector if counter is exposed Xiong Zhang
2024-04-11 22:03   ` Sean Christopherson
2024-04-13  4:12     ` Mi, Dapeng
2024-01-26  8:54 ` [RFC PATCH 38/41] KVM: x86/pmu: Introduce PMU helper to increment counter Xiong Zhang
2024-01-26  8:54 ` [RFC PATCH 39/41] KVM: x86/pmu: Implement emulated counter increment for passthrough PMU Xiong Zhang
2024-04-11 23:12   ` Sean Christopherson
2024-04-11 23:17     ` Sean Christopherson
2024-01-26  8:54 ` [RFC PATCH 40/41] KVM: x86/pmu: Separate passthrough PMU logic in set/get_msr() from non-passthrough vPMU Xiong Zhang
2024-04-11 23:18   ` Sean Christopherson
2024-04-18 21:54     ` Mingwei Zhang
2024-01-26  8:54 ` [RFC PATCH 41/41] KVM: nVMX: Add nested virtualization support for passthrough PMU Xiong Zhang
2024-04-11 23:21   ` Sean Christopherson
2024-04-11 17:03 ` [RFC PATCH 00/41] KVM: x86/pmu: Introduce passthrough vPM Sean Christopherson
2024-04-12  2:19   ` Zhang, Xiong Y
2024-04-12 18:32     ` Sean Christopherson
2024-04-15  1:06       ` Zhang, Xiong Y
2024-04-15 15:05         ` Sean Christopherson
2024-04-16  5:11           ` Zhang, Xiong Y
2024-04-18 20:46   ` Mingwei Zhang
2024-04-18 21:52     ` Mingwei Zhang
2024-04-19 19:14     ` Sean Christopherson
2024-04-19 22:02       ` Mingwei Zhang
2024-04-11 23:25 ` Sean Christopherson
2024-04-11 23:56   ` Mingwei Zhang

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