KVM: x86: Provide per VM capability for disabling PMU virtualization
Add a new capability, KVM_CAP_PMU_CAPABILITY, that takes a bitmask of settings/features to allow userspace to configure PMU virtualization on a per-VM basis. For now, support a single flag, KVM_PMU_CAP_DISABLE, to allow disabling PMU virtualization for a VM even when KVM is configured with enable_pmu=true a module level. To keep KVM simple, disallow changing VM's PMU configuration after vCPUs have been created. Signed-off-by:David Dunn <daviddunn@google.com> Message-Id: <20220223225743.2703915-2-daviddunn@google.com> Signed-off-by:
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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- Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst 22 additions, 0 deletionsDocumentation/virt/kvm/api.rst
- arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h 1 addition, 0 deletionsarch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
- arch/x86/kvm/svm/pmu.c 1 addition, 1 deletionarch/x86/kvm/svm/pmu.c
- arch/x86/kvm/vmx/pmu_intel.c 1 addition, 1 deletionarch/x86/kvm/vmx/pmu_intel.c
- arch/x86/kvm/x86.c 18 additions, 0 deletionsarch/x86/kvm/x86.c
- include/uapi/linux/kvm.h 3 additions, 0 deletionsinclude/uapi/linux/kvm.h
- tools/include/uapi/linux/kvm.h 4 additions, 0 deletionstools/include/uapi/linux/kvm.h
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