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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)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Fri, 30 Jan 2026 09:27:40 +0000 (10:27 +0100)
commitdd40d94ffd7c812118db5746a1cb13eb4d103585
tree1e96133539f9852ac851c597a979e22948faa854
parentcad7003d951e8899db58ee2fef211586af726f09
perf/x86/intel: Do not enable BTS for guests

commit 91dcfae0ff2b9b9ab03c1ec95babaceefbffb9f4 upstream.

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
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
arch/x86/events/perf_event.h