From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: "Kang, Luwei" <luwei.kang@intel.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 7/8] KVM: x86: Expose PEBS feature to guest
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:52:14 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191030095214.GT4097@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <82D7661F83C1A047AF7DC287873BF1E173835B45@SHSMSX104.ccr.corp.intel.com>
On Wed, Oct 30, 2019 at 04:07:03AM +0000, Kang, Luwei wrote:
> > > Expose PEBS feature to guest by IA32_MISC_ENABLE[bit12].
> > > IA32_MISC_ENABLE[bit12] is Processor Event Based Sampling (PEBS)
> > > Unavailable (RO) flag:
> > > 1 = PEBS is not supported; 0 = PEBS is supported.
> >
> > Why does it make sense to expose this on SVM?
>
> Thanks for the review. This patch won't expose the pebs feature to SVM and return not supported.
AFAICT it exposes/emulates an Intel MSR on AMD, which is just weird.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-10-30 9:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-10-27 23:11 [PATCH v1 0/8] PEBS enabling in KVM guest Luwei Kang
2019-10-27 23:11 ` [PATCH v1 1/8] KVM: x86: Add base address parameter for get_fixed_pmc function Luwei Kang
2019-10-27 23:11 ` [PATCH v1 2/8] KVM: x86: PEBS output to Intel PT MSRs emulation Luwei Kang
2019-10-29 15:02 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-10-30 4:06 ` Kang, Luwei
2019-10-27 23:11 ` [PATCH v1 3/8] KVM: x86: Allocate performance counter for PEBS event Luwei Kang
2019-10-29 14:46 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-10-30 4:06 ` Kang, Luwei
2019-10-30 6:42 ` Alexander Shishkin
2019-10-30 6:49 ` Kang, Luwei
2019-10-30 9:51 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-10-30 9:50 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-10-30 9:49 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-10-30 13:41 ` Alexander Shishkin
2019-10-31 11:10 ` Kang, Luwei
2019-11-06 7:44 ` Kang, Luwei
2019-10-27 23:11 ` [PATCH v1 4/8] KVM: x86: Aviod clear the PEBS counter when PEBS enabled in guest Luwei Kang
2019-10-29 14:55 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-10-30 4:06 ` Kang, Luwei
2019-10-27 23:11 ` [PATCH v1 5/8] KVM: X86: Expose PDCM cpuid to guest Luwei Kang
2019-10-27 23:11 ` [PATCH v1 6/8] KVM: X86: MSR_IA32_PERF_CAPABILITIES MSR emulation Luwei Kang
2019-10-27 23:11 ` [PATCH v1 7/8] KVM: x86: Expose PEBS feature to guest Luwei Kang
2019-10-29 15:05 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-10-30 4:07 ` Kang, Luwei
2019-10-30 9:52 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2019-10-31 4:21 ` Kang, Luwei
2019-10-27 23:11 ` [PATCH v1 8/8] perf/x86: Add event owner check when PEBS output to Intel PT Luwei Kang
2019-10-29 15:13 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-10-30 4:07 ` Kang, Luwei
2019-10-30 9:54 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-10-31 6:55 ` Kang, Luwei
2019-10-31 7:39 ` Alexander Shishkin
2019-10-31 10:31 ` Kang, Luwei
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