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When building a list of filter events, it can sometimes be a challenge to fit all the events needed to adequately restrict the guest into the limited space available in the pmu event filter. This stems from the fact that the pmu event filter requires each event (i.e. event select + unit mask) be listed, when the intention might be to restrict the event select all together, regardless of it's unit mask. Instead of increasing the number of filter events in the pmu event filter, add a new encoding that is able to do a more generalized match on the unit mask. Introduce masked events as another encoding the pmu event filter understands. Masked events has the fields: mask, match, and exclude. When filtering based on these events, the mask is applied to the guest's unit mask to see if it matches the match value (i.e. umask & mask == match). The exclude bit can then be used to exclude events from that match. E.g. for a given event select, if it's easier to say which unit mask values shouldn't be filtered, a masked event can be set up to match all possible unit mask values, then another masked event can be set up to match the unit mask values that shouldn't be filtered. Userspace can query to see if this feature exists by looking for the capability, KVM_CAP_PMU_EVENT_MASKED_EVENTS. This feature is enabled by setting the flags field in the pmu event filter to KVM_PMU_EVENT_FLAG_MASKED_EVENTS. Events can be encoded by using KVM_PMU_ENCODE_MASKED_ENTRY(). It is an error to have a bit set outside the valid bits for a masked event, and calls to KVM_SET_PMU_EVENT_FILTER will return -EINVAL in such cases, including the high bits of the event select (35:32) if called on Intel. With these updates the filter matching code has been updated to match on a common event. Masked events were flexible enough to handle both event types, so they were used as the common event. This changes how guest events get filtered because regardless of the type of event used in the uAPI, they will be converted to masked events. Because of this there could be a slight performance hit because instead of matching the filter event with a lookup on event select + unit mask, it does a lookup on event select then walks the unit masks to find the match. This shouldn't be a big problem because I would expect the set of common event selects to be small, and if they aren't the set can likely be reduced by using masked events to generalize the unit mask. Using one type of event when filtering guest events allows for a common code path to be used. Signed-off-by: Aaron Lewis <aaronlewis@google.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221220161236.555143-5-aaronlewis@google.com Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> |
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