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Paolo Bonzini authored
This reverts commit 03a8871a. Since commit 03a8871a ("KVM: nVMX: Expose load IA32_PERF_GLOBAL_CTRL VM-{Entry,Exit} control"), KVM has taken ownership of the "load IA32_PERF_GLOBAL_CTRL" VMX entry/exit control bits, trying to set these bits in the IA32_VMX_TRUE_{ENTRY,EXIT}_CTLS MSRs if the guest's CPUID supports the architectural PMU (CPUID[EAX=0Ah].EAX[7:0]=1), and clear otherwise. This was a misguided attempt at mimicking what commit 5f76f6f5 ("KVM: nVMX: Do not expose MPX VMX controls when guest MPX disabled", 2018-10-01) did for MPX. However, that commit was a workaround for another KVM bug and not something that should be imitated. Mucking with the VMX MSRs creates a subtle, difficult to maintain ABI as KVM must ensure that any internal changes, e.g. to how KVM handles _any_ guest CPUID changes, yield the same functional result. Therefore, KVM's policy is to let userspace have full control of the guest vCPU model so long as the host kernel is not at risk. Now that KVM really truly ensures kvm_set_msr() will succeed by loading PERF_GLOBAL_CTRL if and only if it exists, revert KVM's misguided and roundabout behavior. Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> [sean: make it a pure revert] Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> Message-Id: <20220722224409.1336532-6-seanjc@google.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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