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Commit e76ae527 authored by Sean Christopherson's avatar Sean Christopherson
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KVM: x86/pmu: Gate all "unimplemented MSR" prints on report_ignored_msrs



Add helpers to print unimplemented MSR accesses and condition all such
prints on report_ignored_msrs, i.e. honor userspace's request to not
print unimplemented MSRs.  Even though vcpu_unimpl() is ratelimited,
printing can still be problematic, e.g. if a print gets stalled when host
userspace is writing MSRs during live migration, an effective stall can
result in very noticeable disruption in the guest.

E.g. the profile below was taken while calling KVM_SET_MSRS on the PMU
counters while the PMU was disabled in KVM.

  -   99.75%     0.00%  [.] __ioctl
   - __ioctl
      - 99.74% entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe
           do_syscall_64
           sys_ioctl
         - do_vfs_ioctl
            - 92.48% kvm_vcpu_ioctl
               - kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl
                  - 85.12% kvm_set_msr_ignored_check
                       svm_set_msr
                       kvm_set_msr_common
                       printk
                       vprintk_func
                       vprintk_default
                       vprintk_emit
                       console_unlock
                       call_console_drivers
                       univ8250_console_write
                       serial8250_console_write
                       uart_console_write

Reported-by: default avatarAaron Lewis <aaronlewis@google.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarVitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230124234905.3774678-3-seanjc@google.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarSean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
parent 8911ce66
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