From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Zijlstra Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 2/9] KVM: Expose a version 2 architectural PMU to a guests Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2011 15:22:05 +0100 Message-ID: <1320675725.18053.40.camel@twins> References: <1320323618-10375-1-git-send-email-gleb@redhat.com> <1320323618-10375-3-git-send-email-gleb@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, avi@redhat.com, mtosatti@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu, acme@ghostprotocols.net, Frederic Weisbecker To: Gleb Natapov Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1320323618-10375-3-git-send-email-gleb@redhat.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: kvm.vger.kernel.org On Thu, 2011-11-03 at 14:33 +0200, Gleb Natapov wrote: > @@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ config KVM > select KVM_MMIO > select TASKSTATS > select TASK_DELAY_ACCT > + select PERF_EVENTS Do you really want to make that an unconditional part of KVM? I know we can't currently build x86 without perf due to that hw breakpoint trainwreck, but people were actually wanting to solve that.