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| author | Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org> | 2024-07-24 11:25:40 +1000 |
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| committer | Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org> | 2024-07-24 11:25:40 +1000 |
| commit | 43f59bf76535b8842a762f8625b96091611aac11 (patch) | |
| tree | b5ddc93558ebdf538a5656a31a958526cb68bfde /docs/specs | |
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Merge tag 'for-upstream' of https://gitlab.com/bonzini/qemu into staging
* target/i386/kvm: support for reading RAPL MSRs using a helper program * hpet: emulation improvements # -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- # # iQFIBAABCAAyFiEE8TM4V0tmI4mGbHaCv/vSX3jHroMFAmaelL4UHHBib256aW5p # QHJlZGhhdC5jb20ACgkQv/vSX3jHroMXoQf+K77lNlHLETSgeeP3dr7yZPOmXjjN # qFY/18jiyLw7MK1rZC09fF+n9SoaTH8JDKupt0z9M1R10HKHLIO04f8zDE+dOxaE # Rou3yKnlTgFPGSoPPFr1n1JJfxtYlLZRoUzaAcHUaa4W7JR/OHJX90n1Rb9MXeDk # jV6P0v1FWtIDdM6ERm9qBGoQdYhj6Ra2T4/NZKJFXwIhKEkxgu4yO7WXv8l0dxQz # jE4fKotqAvrkYW1EsiVZm30lw/19duhvGiYeQXoYhk8KKXXjAbJMblLITSNWsCio # 3l6Uud/lOxekkJDAq5nH3H9hCBm0WwvwL+0vRf3Mkr+/xRGvrhtmUdp8NQ== # =00mB # -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- # gpg: Signature made Tue 23 Jul 2024 03:19:58 AM AEST # gpg: using RSA key F13338574B662389866C7682BFFBD25F78C7AE83 # gpg: issuer "pbonzini@redhat.com" # gpg: Good signature from "Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>" [full] # gpg: aka "Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>" [full] * tag 'for-upstream' of https://gitlab.com/bonzini/qemu: hpet: avoid timer storms on periodic timers hpet: store full 64-bit target value of the counter hpet: accept 64-bit reads and writes hpet: place read-only bits directly in "new_val" hpet: remove unnecessary variable "index" hpet: ignore high bits of comparator in 32-bit mode hpet: fix and cleanup persistence of interrupt status Add support for RAPL MSRs in KVM/Qemu tools: build qemu-vmsr-helper qio: add support for SO_PEERCRED for socket channel target/i386: do not crash if microvm guest uses SGX CPUID leaves Signed-off-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
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diff --git a/docs/specs/index.rst b/docs/specs/index.rst index e2d907959a..be899b49c2 100644 --- a/docs/specs/index.rst +++ b/docs/specs/index.rst @@ -34,3 +34,4 @@ guest hardware that is specific to QEMU. virt-ctlr vmcoreinfo vmgenid + rapl-msr diff --git a/docs/specs/rapl-msr.rst b/docs/specs/rapl-msr.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..1202ee89be --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/specs/rapl-msr.rst @@ -0,0 +1,155 @@ +================ +RAPL MSR support +================ + +The RAPL interface (Running Average Power Limit) is advertising the accumulated +energy consumption of various power domains (e.g. CPU packages, DRAM, etc.). + +The consumption is reported via MSRs (model specific registers) like +MSR_PKG_ENERGY_STATUS for the CPU package power domain. These MSRs are 64 bits +registers that represent the accumulated energy consumption in micro Joules. + +Thanks to the MSR Filtering patch [#a]_ not all MSRs are handled by KVM. Some +of them can now be handled by the userspace (QEMU). It uses a mechanism called +"MSR filtering" where a list of MSRs is given at init time of a VM to KVM so +that a callback is put in place. The design of this patch uses only this +mechanism for handling the MSRs between guest/host. + +At the moment the following MSRs are involved: + +.. code:: C + + #define MSR_RAPL_POWER_UNIT 0x00000606 + #define MSR_PKG_POWER_LIMIT 0x00000610 + #define MSR_PKG_ENERGY_STATUS 0x00000611 + #define MSR_PKG_POWER_INFO 0x00000614 + +The ``*_POWER_UNIT``, ``*_POWER_LIMIT``, ``*_POWER INFO`` are part of the RAPL +spec and specify the power limit of the package, provide range of parameter(min +power, max power,..) and also the information of the multiplier for the energy +counter to calculate the power. Those MSRs are populated once at the beginning +by reading the host CPU MSRs and are given back to the guest 1:1 when +requested. + +The MSR_PKG_ENERGY_STATUS is a counter; it represents the total amount of +energy consumed since the last time the register was cleared. If you multiply +it with the UNIT provided above you'll get the power in micro-joules. This +counter is always increasing and it increases more or less faster depending on +the consumption of the package. This counter is supposed to overflow at some +point. + +Each core belonging to the same Package reading the MSR_PKG_ENERGY_STATUS (i.e +"rdmsr 0x611") will retrieve the same value. The value represents the energy +for the whole package. Whatever Core reading it will get the same value and a +core that belongs to PKG-0 will not be able to get the value of PKG-1 and +vice-versa. + +High level implementation +------------------------- + +In order to update the value of the virtual MSR, a QEMU thread is created. +The thread is basically just an infinity loop that does: + +1. Snapshot of the time metrics of all QEMU threads (Time spent scheduled in + Userspace and System) + +2. Snapshot of the actual MSR_PKG_ENERGY_STATUS counter of all packages where + the QEMU threads are running on. + +3. Sleep for 1 second - During this pause the vcpu and other non-vcpu threads + will do what they have to do and so the energy counter will increase. + +4. Repeat 2. and 3. and calculate the delta of every metrics representing the + time spent scheduled for each QEMU thread *and* the energy spent by the + packages during the pause. + +5. Filter the vcpu threads and the non-vcpu threads. + +6. Retrieve the topology of the Virtual Machine. This helps identify which + vCPU is running on which virtual package. + +7. The total energy spent by the non-vcpu threads is divided by the number + of vcpu threads so that each vcpu thread will get an equal part of the + energy spent by the QEMU workers. + +8. Calculate the ratio of energy spent per vcpu threads. + +9. Calculate the energy for each virtual package. + +10. The virtual MSRs are updated for each virtual package. Each vCPU that + belongs to the same package will return the same value when accessing the + the MSR. + +11. Loop back to 1. + +Ratio calculation +----------------- + +In Linux, a process has an execution time associated with it. The scheduler is +dividing the time in clock ticks. The number of clock ticks per second can be +found by the sysconf system call. A typical value of clock ticks per second is +100. So a core can run a process at the maximum of 100 ticks per second. If a +package has 4 cores, 400 ticks maximum can be scheduled on all the cores +of the package for a period of 1 second. + +The /proc/[pid]/stat [#b]_ is a sysfs file that can give the executed time of a +process with the [pid] as the process ID. It gives the amount of ticks the +process has been scheduled in userspace (utime) and kernel space (stime). + +By reading those metrics for a thread, one can calculate the ratio of time the +package has spent executing the thread. + +Example: + +A 4 cores package can schedule a maximum of 400 ticks per second with 100 ticks +per second per core. If a thread was scheduled for 100 ticks between a second +on this package, that means my thread has been scheduled for 1/4 of the whole +package. With that, the calculation of the energy spent by the thread on this +package during this whole second is 1/4 of the total energy spent by the +package. + +Usage +----- + +Currently this feature is only working on an Intel CPU that has the RAPL driver +mounted and available in the sysfs. if not, QEMU fails at start-up. + +This feature is activated with -accel +kvm,rapl=true,rapl-helper-socket=/path/sock.sock + +It is important that the socket path is the same as the one +:program:`qemu-vmsr-helper` is listening to. + +qemu-vmsr-helper +---------------- + +The qemu-vmsr-helper is working very much like the qemu-pr-helper. Instead of +making persistent reservation, qemu-vmsr-helper is here to overcome the +CVE-2020-8694 which remove user access to the rapl msr attributes. + +A socket communication is established between QEMU processes that has the RAPL +MSR support activated and the qemu-vmsr-helper. A systemd service and socket +activation is provided in contrib/systemd/qemu-vmsr-helper.(service/socket). + +The systemd socket uses 600, like contrib/systemd/qemu-pr-helper.socket. The +socket can be passed via SCM_RIGHTS by libvirt, or its permissions can be +changed (e.g. 660 and root:kvm for a Debian system for example). Libvirt could +also start a separate helper if needed. All in all, the policy is left to the +user. + +See the qemu-pr-helper documentation or manpage for further details. + +Current Limitations +------------------- + +- Works only on Intel host CPUs because AMD CPUs are using different MSR + addresses. + +- Only the Package Power-Plane (MSR_PKG_ENERGY_STATUS) is reported at the + moment. + +References +---------- + +.. [#a] https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/kvm/patch/20200916202951.23760-7-graf@amazon.com/ +.. [#b] https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man5/proc.5.html |