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Add support for AMD Core Performance counters in the guest. The base event select and counter MSRs are changed. In addition, with the core extension, there are 2 extra counters available for performance measurements for a total of 6. With the new MSRs, the logic to map them to the gp_counters[] is changed. New functions are added to check the validity of the get/set MSRs. If the guest has the X86_FEATURE_PERFCTR_CORE cpuid flag set, the number of counters available to the vcpu is set to 6. It the flag is not set then it is 4. Signed-off-by: Janakarajan Natarajan <Janakarajan.Natarajan@amd.com> [Squashed "Expose AMD Core Perf Extension flag to guests" - Radim.] Signed-off-by: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
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