From: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
To: Storm Wang <storm.whui@gmail.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: use perf to get LLC-loads count in Guest
Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2012 14:49:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121219124920.GQ11016@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADN=SKGHgePSsVNkZZ566Ue-en37ica-MscPwffOw_TeZ5K0GQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 02:08:07AM +0800, Storm Wang wrote:
> Hello guys
>
> here I have a problem, when I used perf in Guest, the count of LLC-loads
> usually returns 0. LLC-loads was a hardware cache event, besides the
> setting of general PMU MSR, need to set MSR_OFFCORE_RSP_0 as well, in perf,
> it would be the extra_reg and extra_config in "hw_perf_event". I add some
> debuginfo in function "read_pmc" and found that when measuring LLC-loads,
> pmc->perf_event->hw.extra_reg is 0x0, and the counter's number was always
> the same. I think this is the reason, but I can't find when and where the
> value changed.
>
> Anybody has some idea for this?
>
Currently counters that need extra regs are not supported by KVM PMU
emulation.
--
Gleb.
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2012-12-19 12:49 ` Gleb Natapov [this message]
2012-12-19 15:17 ` use perf to get LLC-loads count in Guest Storm Wang
2012-12-19 15:47 ` Gleb Natapov
2012-12-19 4:26 Storm Wang
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