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    perf/x86/intel: Add EPT-Friendly PEBS for Ice Lake Server · fb358e0b
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    Add support for EPT-Friendly PEBS, a new CPU feature that enlightens PEBS
    to translate guest linear address through EPT, and facilitates handling
    VM-Exits that occur when accessing PEBS records.  More information can
    be found in the December 2021 release of Intel's SDM, Volume 3,
    18.9.5 "EPT-Friendly PEBS". This new hardware facility makes sure the
    guest PEBS records will not be lost, which is available on Intel Ice Lake
    Server platforms (and later).
    
    KVM will check this field through perf_get_x86_pmu_capability() instead
    of hard coding the CPU models in the KVM code. If it is supported, the
    guest PEBS capability will be exposed to the guest. Guest PEBS can be
    enabled when and only when "EPT-Friendly PEBS" is supported and
    EPT is enabled.
    
    Cc: linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLike Xu <likexu@tencent.com>
    Message-Id: <20220411101946.20262-2-likexu@tencent.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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