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    perf/x86/core: Completely disable guest PEBS via guest's global_ctrl · f2aeea57
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    When a guest PEBS counter is cross-mapped by a host counter, software
    will remove the corresponding bit in the arr[global_ctrl].guest and
    expect hardware to perform a change of state "from enable to disable"
    via the msr_slot[] switch during the vmx transaction.
    
    The real world is that if user adjust the counter overflow value small
    enough, it still opens a tiny race window for the previously PEBS-enabled
    counter to write cross-mapped PEBS records into the guest's PEBS buffer,
    when arr[global_ctrl].guest has been prioritised (switch_msr_special stuff)
    to switch into the enabled state, while the arr[pebs_enable].guest has not.
    
    Close this window by clearing invalid bits in the arr[global_ctrl].guest.
    
    Fixes: 85425032 ("KVM: x86/pmu: Disable guest PEBS temporarily in two rare situations")
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLike Xu <likexu@tencent.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
    Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220831033524.58561-1-likexu@tencent.com
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