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Add a PMU errata framework and use it to relax precise event counts on
Atom platforms that overcount "Instruction Retired" and "Branch Instruction
Retired" events, as the overcount issues on VM-Exit/VM-Entry are impossible
to prevent from userspace, e.g. the test can't prevent host IRQs.
Setup errata during early initialization and automatically sync the mask
to VMs so that tests can check for errata without having to manually
manage host=>guest variables.
For Intel Atom CPUs, the PMU events "Instruction Retired" or
"Branch Instruction Retired" may be overcounted for some certain
instructions, like FAR CALL/JMP, RETF, IRET, VMENTRY/VMEXIT/VMPTRLD
and complex SGX/SMX/CSTATE instructions/flows.
The detailed information can be found in the errata (section SRF7):
https://edc.intel.com/content/www/us/en/design/products-and-solutions/processors-and-chipsets/sierra-forest/xeon-6700-series-processor-with-e-cores-specification-update/errata-details/
For the Atom platforms before Sierra Forest (including Sierra Forest),
Both 2 events "Instruction Retired" and "Branch Instruction Retired" would
be overcounted on these certain instructions, but for Clearwater Forest
only "Instruction Retired" event is overcounted on these instructions.
Signed-off-by: dongsheng <dongsheng.x.zhang@intel.com>
Co-developed-by: Dapeng Mi <dapeng1.mi@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dapeng Mi <dapeng1.mi@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: Yi Lai <yi1.lai@intel.com>
Co-developed-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Dapeng Mi <dapeng1.mi@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: Dapeng Mi <dapeng1.mi@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250919214648.1585683-6-seanjc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
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Add support for 5 new architectural events (4 topdown level 1 metrics
events and LBR inserts event) that will first show up in Intel's
Clearwater Forest CPUs. Detailed info about the new events can be found
in SDM section 21.2.7 "Pre-defined Architectural Performance Events".
Signed-off-by: Dapeng Mi <dapeng1.mi@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: Yi Lai <yi1.lai@intel.com>
[sean: drop "unavailable_mask" changes]
Tested-by: Dapeng Mi <dapeng1.mi@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250919214648.1585683-5-seanjc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
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Use the kernel's canonical $(ARCH) paths instead of the raw target triple
for KVM selftests directories. KVM selftests are quite nearly the only
place in the entire kernel that using the target triple for directories,
tools/testing/selftests/drivers/s390x being the lone holdout.
Using the kernel's preferred nomenclature eliminates the minor, but
annoying, friction of having to translate to KVM's selftests directories,
e.g. for pattern matching, opening files, running selftests, etc.
Opportunsitically delete file comments that reference the full path of the
file, as they are obviously prone to becoming stale, and serve no known
purpose.
Reviewed-by: Muhammad Usama Anjum <usama.anjum@collabora.com>
Acked-by: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Andrew Jones <ajones@ventanamicro.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241128005547.4077116-16-seanjc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
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