KVM: x86/pmu: Use PERF_TYPE_RAW to merge reprogram_{gp,fixed}counter()
The code sketch for reprogram_{gp, fixed}_counter() is similar, while the fixed counter using the PERF_TYPE_HARDWAR type and the gp being able to use either PERF_TYPE_HARDWAR or PERF_TYPE_RAW type depending on the pmc->eventsel value. After 'commit 76187563 ("KVM: x86/pmu: Setup pmc->eventsel for fixed PMCs")', the pmc->eventsel of the fixed counter will also have been setup with the same semantic value and will not be changed during the guest runtime. The original story of using the PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE type is to emulate guest architecture PMU on a host without architecture PMU (the Pentium 4), for which the guest vPMC needs to be reprogrammed using the kernel generic perf_hw_id. But essentially, "the HARDWARE is just a convenience wrapper over RAW IIRC", quoated from Peterz. So it could be pretty safe to use the PERF_TYPE_RAW type only in practice to program both gp and fixed counters naturally in the reprogram_counter(). To make the gp and fixed counters more semantically symmetrical, the selection of EVENTSEL_{USER, OS, INT} bits is temporarily translated via fixed_ctr_ctrl before the pmc_reprogram_counter() call. Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Suggested-by: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com> Signed-off-by: Like Xu <likexu@tencent.com> Message-Id: <20220518132512.37864-9-likexu@tencent.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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