linux/tools
dongsheng c435978e4f KVM: selftests: Handle Intel Atom errata that leads to PMU event overcount
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>
2025-09-23 08:38:59 -07:00
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accounting tools/getdelays: add backward compatibility for taskstats version 2025-08-02 12:01:41 -07:00
arch x86/rdrand: Disable RDSEED on AMD Cyan Skillfish 2025-07-08 21:33:26 +02:00
bootconfig bootconfig: Fix unaligned access when building footer 2025-07-24 22:16:48 +09:00
bpf bpftool: Add support for dumping streams 2025-07-03 19:30:07 -07:00
build tools: Remove libcrypto dependency 2025-06-26 10:51:41 -07:00
certs
cgroup memcg_slabinfo: Fix use of PG_slab 2025-07-23 11:55:22 +02:00
counter
crypto
debugging
firewire
firmware
gpio
hv tools/hv: fcopy: Fix irregularities with size of ring buffer 2025-07-15 06:25:33 +00:00
iio
include ARM: 2025-07-30 17:14:01 -07:00
kvm/kvm_stat
laptop
leds
lib libbpf: Add the ability to suppress perf event enablement 2025-08-07 09:01:41 -07:00
memory-model
mm tools/mm: add script to display page state for a given PID and VADDR 2025-07-09 22:41:53 -07:00
net tools: ynl-gen: print setters for multi-val attrs 2025-07-24 17:28:49 -07:00
objtool Runtime verification changes for 6.17 2025-07-30 16:23:12 -07:00
pcmcia
perf perf bpf-filter: Enable events manually 2025-08-07 09:03:44 -07:00
power tools/power turbostat: version 2025.09.09 2025-08-10 09:02:36 +03:00
rcu
sched tools/sched: Add dl_bw_dump.py for printing bandwidth accounting info 2025-07-14 10:59:33 +02:00
sched_ext sched_ext: Add support for cgroup bandwidth control interface 2025-06-20 17:03:51 -10:00
scripts tools/build: Fix s390(x) cross-compilation with clang 2025-07-08 09:19:23 +02:00
sound
spi
testing KVM: selftests: Handle Intel Atom errata that leads to PMU event overcount 2025-09-23 08:38:59 -07:00
thermal
time
tracing rtla/tests: Test timerlat -P option using actions 2025-07-28 10:22:39 -04:00
usb
verification rv: Add opid per-cpu monitor 2025-07-28 16:47:35 -04:00
virtio
wmi
workqueue
writeback
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