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This patch clarifies a vague statement in the SDM: the recommended maximum number of MSRs that can be automically switched by CPU during VMExit and VMEntry is 512, rather than 512 Bytes of MSRs. Depending on the CPU implementations, it may also support more than 512 MSRs to be auto switched. This can be calculated by (MSR_IA32_VMX_MISC[27:25] + 1) * 512. Signed-off-by: Wei Wang <wei.w.wang at

This patch series enables the Last Branch Recording feature for the guest. Instead of trapping each LBR stack MSR access, the MSRs are passthroughed to the guest. Those MSRs are switched (i.e. load and saved) on VMExit and VMEntry. Test: Try "perf record -b ./test_program" on guest. Wei Wang (4): KVM/vmx: re-write the msr auto switch feature KVM/vmx: auto switch

This patch series enables the Last Branch Recording feature for the guest. Instead of trapping each LBR stack MSR access, the MSRs are passthroughed to the guest. Those MSRs are switched (i.e. load and saved) on VMExit and VMEntry. Test: Try "perf record -b ./test_program" on guest. Wei Wang (4): KVM/vmx: re-write the msr auto switch feature KVM/vmx: auto switch

Change from v2: re-written code in ''vmx_intr_assist'' into if()/else if() sequence to make code change easy to review. Virtual interrupt delivery avoids Xen to inject vAPIC interrupts manually, which is fully taken care of by the hardware. This needs some special awareness into existing interrupr injection path: For pending interrupt from vLAPIC, instead of direct injection, we

This patch series is based on the VM introspection patches (https://lore.kernel.org/kvm/20200721210922.7646-1-alazar at bitdefender.com/), extending the introspection API with EPT Views and Virtualization Exceptions (#VE) support. The purpose of this series is to get an initial feedback and to see if we are on the right track, especially because the changes made to add the EPT views are not small

The KVM introspection subsystem provides a facility for applications running on the host or in a separate VM, to control the execution of other VM-s (pause, resume, shutdown), query the state of the vCPUs (GPRs, MSRs etc.), alter the page access bits in the shadow page tables (only for the hardware backed ones, eg. Intel's EPT) and receive notifications when events of interest have taken place

The KVM introspection subsystem provides a facility for applications running on the host or in a separate VM, to control the execution of other VM-s (pause, resume, shutdown), query the state of the vCPUs (GPRs, MSRs etc.), alter the page access bits in the shadow page tables (only for the hardware backed ones, eg. Intel's EPT) and receive notifications when events of interest have taken place

The KVM introspection subsystem provides a facility for applications running on the host or in a separate VM, to control the execution of other VMs (pause, resume, shutdown), query the state of the vCPUs (GPRs, MSRs etc.), alter the page access bits in the shadow page tables (only for the hardware backed ones, eg. Intel's EPT) and receive notifications when events of interest have taken place