linux/tools
Jim Mattson a7cec20845 KVM: x86: Provide a capability to disable APERF/MPERF read intercepts
Allow a guest to read the physical IA32_APERF and IA32_MPERF MSRs
without interception.

The IA32_APERF and IA32_MPERF MSRs are not virtualized. Writes are not
handled at all. The MSR values are not zeroed on vCPU creation, saved
on suspend, or restored on resume. No accommodation is made for
processor migration or for sharing a logical processor with other
tasks. No adjustments are made for non-unit TSC multipliers. The MSRs
do not account for time the same way as the comparable PMU events,
whether the PMU is virtualized by the traditional emulation method or
the new mediated pass-through approach.

Nonetheless, in a properly constrained environment, this capability
can be combined with a guest CPUID table that advertises support for
CPUID.6:ECX.APERFMPERF[bit 0] to induce a Linux guest to report the
effective physical CPU frequency in /proc/cpuinfo. Moreover, there is
no performance cost for this capability.

Signed-off-by: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250530185239.2335185-3-jmattson@google.com
Reviewed-by: Xiaoyao Li <xiaoyao.li@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250626001225.744268-3-seanjc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
2025-07-09 09:33:37 -07:00
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arch perf tools improvements and fixes for Linux v6.16: 2025-06-03 15:11:44 -07:00
bootconfig tools/bootconfig: specify LDFLAGS as an argument to CC 2025-05-16 11:22:54 +09:00
bpf tools/resolve_btfids: Fix build when cross compiling kernel with clang. 2025-06-10 09:09:27 -07:00
build tools build: Don't show libbfd build status as it is opt-in 2025-04-10 10:45:30 -03:00
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hv tools: hv: Enable debug logs for hv_kvp_daemon 2025-05-23 16:30:55 +00:00
iio iio: normalize array sentinel style 2025-04-22 19:10:04 +01:00
include KVM: x86: Provide a capability to disable APERF/MPERF read intercepts 2025-07-09 09:33:37 -07:00
kvm/kvm_stat
laptop
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lib libbpf: Handle unsupported mmap-based /sys/kernel/btf/vmlinux correctly 2025-06-06 14:07:07 -07:00
memory-model tools/memory-model/Documentation: Fix SRCU section in explanation.txt 2025-04-23 12:17:04 -07:00
mm
net Networking changes for 6.16. 2025-05-28 15:24:36 -07:00
objtool Rust changes for v6.16 2025-06-04 21:18:37 -07:00
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perf RISC-V Patches for the 6.16 Merge Window, Part 1 2025-06-06 18:05:18 -07:00
power cpupower: split unitdir from libdir in Makefile 2025-06-09 10:17:46 -06:00
rcu
sched_ext sched_ext: change the variable name for slice refill event 2025-04-18 17:25:39 -10:00
scripts tools headers: Update the syscall table with the kernel sources 2025-04-10 09:28:24 -07:00
sound
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testing KVM: selftests: Verify KVM disable interception (for userspace) on filter change 2025-06-20 13:07:38 -07:00
thermal
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tracing tracing tools updates for v6.16: 2025-05-29 20:59:52 -07:00
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Makefile tools/Makefile: Add ynl target 2025-04-28 17:18:48 -07:00