perf-urgent-2021-08-08
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08 Aug 11:27
- Correct the permission checks for perf event which send SIGTRAP to a different process and clean up that code to be more readable. - Prevent an out of bound MSR access in the x86 perf code which happened due to an incomplete limiting to the actually available hardware counters. - Prevent access to the AMD64_EVENTSEL_HOSTONLY bit when running inside a guest. - Handle small core counter re-enabling correctly by issuing an ACK right before reenabling it to prevent a stale PEBS record being kept around.