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Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] perf changes for v3.8
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On 12/12/12 8:34 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 7:25 PM, David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Are you running an older perf binary on the 3.8 kernel?
>
> I am.. I don't tend to rebuild 'perf'..
>
>> Does this work: perf record -e cycles:ppH  ...
>
> Yes it does. What is 'H' and why should anybody care? Especially since
> I'm not running virtualized.
>
> That whole "exclude_guest" test is insane when there isn't any
> virtualization going on. Very annoying.

you know what's worse? All of your VMs blowing up because anyone runs 
perf with precise attribute. Virtualization and and performance 
monitoring collide. From the log message for commit 1342798.

"Intel PEBS in VT-x context uses the DS address as a guest linear 
address, even though its programmed by the host as a host linear 
address. This either results in guest memory corruption and or the 
hardware faulting and 'crashing' the virtual machine.  Therefore we have 
to disable PEBS on VT-x enter and re-enable on VT-x exit, enforcing a 
strict exclude_guest."

David