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Wei Wang authored
The fixed counter 3 is used for the Topdown metrics, which hasn't been
enabled for KVM guests. Userspace accessing to it will fail as it's not
included in get_fixed_pmc(). This breaks KVM selftests on ICX+ machines,
which have this counter.

To reproduce it on ICX+ machines, ./state_test reports:
==== Test Assertion Failure ====
lib/x86_64/processor.c:1078: r == nmsrs
pid=4564 tid=4564 - Argument list too long
1  0x000000000040b1b9: vcpu_save_state at processor.c:1077
2  0x0000000000402478: main at state_test.c:209 (discriminator 6)
3  0x00007fbe21ed5f92: ?? ??:0
4  0x000000000040264d: _start at ??:?
 Unexpected result from KVM_GET_MSRS, r: 17 (failed MSR was 0x30c)

With this patch, it works well.

Signed-off-by: default avatarWei Wang <wei.w.wang@intel.com>
Message-Id: <20211217124934.32893-1-wei.w.wang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.