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perf/x86/intel: Do not enable BTS for guests
authorFernand Sieber <sieberf@amazon.com>
Thu, 11 Dec 2025 18:36:04 +0000 (20:36 +0200)
committerPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Wed, 21 Jan 2026 15:28:59 +0000 (16:28 +0100)
commit91dcfae0ff2b9b9ab03c1ec95babaceefbffb9f4
tree8b12276f6d0d6fe4737b6b7511e3f4c26c8762bc
parentd06bf78e55d5159c1b00072e606ab924ffbbad35
perf/x86/intel: Do not enable BTS for guests

By default when users program perf to sample branch instructions
(PERF_COUNT_HW_BRANCH_INSTRUCTIONS) with a sample period of 1, perf
interprets this as a special case and enables BTS (Branch Trace Store)
as an optimization to avoid taking an interrupt on every branch.

Since BTS doesn't virtualize, this optimization doesn't make sense when
the request originates from a guest. Add an additional check that
prevents this optimization for virtualized events (exclude_host).

Reported-by: Jan H. Schönherr <jschoenh@amazon.de>
Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Fernand Sieber <sieberf@amazon.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251211183604.868641-1-sieberf@amazon.com
arch/x86/events/perf_event.h