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    KVM: x86: Get CPL directly when checking if loaded vCPU is in kernel mode · 547c9192
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    When querying whether or not a vCPU "is" running in kernel mode, directly
    get the CPL if the vCPU is the currently loaded vCPU.  In scenarios where
    a guest is profiled via perf-kvm, querying vcpu->arch.preempted_in_kernel
    from kvm_guest_state() is wrong if vCPU is actively running, i.e. isn't
    scheduled out due to being preempted and so preempted_in_kernel is stale.
    
    This affects perf/core's ability to accurately tag guest RIP with
    PERF_RECORD_MISC_GUEST_{KERNEL|USER} and record it in the sample.  This
    causes perf/tool to fail to connect the vCPU RIPs to the guest kernel
    space symbols when parsing these samples due to incorrect PERF_RECORD_MISC
    flags:
    
       Before (perf-report of a cpu-cycles sample):
          1.23%  :58945   [unknown]         [u] 0xffffffff818012e0
    
       After:
          1.35%  :60703   [kernel.vmlinux]  [g] asm_exc_page_fault
    
    Note, checking preempted_in_kernel in kvm_arch_vcpu_in_kernel() is awful
    as nothing in the API's suggests that it's safe to use if and only if the
    vCPU was preempted.  That can be cleaned up in the future, for now just
    fix the glaring correctness bug.
    
    Note #2, checking vcpu->preempted is NOT safe, as getting the CPL on VMX
    requires VMREAD, i.e. is correct if and only if the vCPU is loaded.  If
    the target vCPU *was* preempted, then it can be scheduled back in after
    the check on vcpu->preempted in kvm_vcpu_on_spin(), i.e. KVM could end up
    trying to do VMREAD on a VMCS that isn't loaded on the current pCPU.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLike Xu <likexu@tencent.com>
    Fixes: e1bfc245 ("KVM: Move x86's perf guest info callbacks to generic KVM")
    Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231123075818.12521-1-likexu@tencent.com
    [sean: massage changelong, add Fixes]
    Signed-off-by: default avatarSean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
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