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| author | Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com> | 2012-08-09 11:52:34 +0300 |
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| committer | Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> | 2012-08-13 19:01:04 +0200 |
| commit | 26a4f3c08de49c1437a7b7f97693cf22d8c31656 (patch) | |
| tree | 3f1bafcd6e9cac2dfb0d26236d79fcc9ba970938 /arch | |
| parent | cb37af77124e8532e6ae3f9ca332593ba423b5f8 (diff) | |
perf/x86: disable PEBS on a guest entry.
If PMU counter has PEBS enabled it is not enough to disable counter
on a guest entry since PEBS memory write can overshoot guest entry
and corrupt guest memory. Disabling PEBS during guest entry solves
the problem.
Tested-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120809085234.GI3341@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel.c | 10 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel.c index 382366977d4..7f2739e03e7 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel.c @@ -1522,8 +1522,16 @@ static struct perf_guest_switch_msr *intel_guest_get_msrs(int *nr) arr[0].msr = MSR_CORE_PERF_GLOBAL_CTRL; arr[0].host = x86_pmu.intel_ctrl & ~cpuc->intel_ctrl_guest_mask; arr[0].guest = x86_pmu.intel_ctrl & ~cpuc->intel_ctrl_host_mask; + /* + * If PMU counter has PEBS enabled it is not enough to disable counter + * on a guest entry since PEBS memory write can overshoot guest entry + * and corrupt guest memory. Disabling PEBS solves the problem. + */ + arr[1].msr = MSR_IA32_PEBS_ENABLE; + arr[1].host = cpuc->pebs_enabled; + arr[1].guest = 0; - *nr = 1; + *nr = 2; return arr; } |