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KVM: VMX: Fake emulate Intel perfctr MSRs

Older linux guests (in this case, 2.6.9) can attempt to
access the performance counter MSRs without a fixup section, and injecting
a GPF kills the guest.  Work around by allowing the guest to write those MSRs.

Tested by me on RHEL-4 i386 and x86_64 guests, as well as F-9 guests.

Signed-off-by: Chris Lalancette <clalance@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Chris Lalancette 17 years ago
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arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c

@@ -920,6 +920,18 @@ static int vmx_set_msr(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u32 msr_index, u64 data)
 		break;
 	case MSR_IA32_TIME_STAMP_COUNTER:
 		guest_write_tsc(data);
+		break;
+	case MSR_P6_PERFCTR0:
+	case MSR_P6_PERFCTR1:
+	case MSR_P6_EVNTSEL0:
+	case MSR_P6_EVNTSEL1:
+		/*
+		 * Just discard all writes to the performance counters; this
+		 * should keep both older linux and windows 64-bit guests
+		 * happy
+		 */
+		pr_unimpl(vcpu, "unimplemented perfctr wrmsr: 0x%x data 0x%llx\n", msr_index, data);
+
 		break;
 	default:
 		vmx_load_host_state(vmx);