KVM: x86: Add support for VMware backdoor Pseudo-PMCs
VMware exposes the following Pseudo PMCs:
0x10000: Physical host TSC
0x10001: Elapsed real time in ns
0x10002: Elapsed apparent time in ns
For more info refer to:
https://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper/Timekeeping-In-VirtualMachines.pdf
VMware allows access to these Pseduo-PMCs even when read via RDPMC
in Ring3 and CR4.PCE=0. Therefore, commit modifies x86 emulator
to allow access to these PMCs in this situation. In addition,
emulation of these PMCs were added to kvm_pmu_rdpmc().
Signed-off-by: Arbel Moshe <arbel.moshe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Liran Alon <liran.alon@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c b/arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c
index 821f633..dd88158 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@
#include "x86.h"
#include "tss.h"
#include "mmu.h"
+#include "pmu.h"
/*
* Operand types
@@ -4293,6 +4294,13 @@ static int check_rdpmc(struct x86_emulate_ctxt *ctxt)
u64 cr4 = ctxt->ops->get_cr(ctxt, 4);
u64 rcx = reg_read(ctxt, VCPU_REGS_RCX);
+ /*
+ * VMware allows access to these Pseduo-PMCs even when read via RDPMC
+ * in Ring3 when CR4.PCE=0.
+ */
+ if (enable_vmware_backdoor && is_vmware_backdoor_pmc(rcx))
+ return X86EMUL_CONTINUE;
+
if ((!(cr4 & X86_CR4_PCE) && ctxt->ops->cpl(ctxt)) ||
ctxt->ops->check_pmc(ctxt, rcx))
return emulate_gp(ctxt, 0);