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From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
To: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, avi@redhat.com, mtosatti@redhat.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu,
	acme@ghostprotocols.net
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 6/9] perf: expose perf capability to other modules.
Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2011 17:01:11 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1320681671.17809.5.camel@twins> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111107155336.GI8670@redhat.com>

On Mon, 2011-11-07 at 17:53 +0200, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> I removed branch-miss-retired here because for perf user it exists. Perf
> approximates it by other event but perf user shouldn't know that. A
> guest is not always runs with exactly same cpu model number as a host,
> so if we will not drop the bit here if guest will see cpu model other
> than the one that has this quirk it will not be able to use the event.

Right, so what model number do you expose? Anyway I don't really mind
masking the thing as long as we grow an ebx iteration,

> BTW why perf does not check event mask to see if architectural event is
> available before programming it? 

No idea why not.. just one of those things nobody noticed/got around to
doing or so.

  reply	other threads:[~2011-11-07 16:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-03 12:33 [PATCHv2 0/9] KVM in-guest performance monitoring Gleb Natapov
2011-11-03 12:33 ` [PATCHv2 1/9] KVM: Expose kvm_lapic_local_deliver() Gleb Natapov
2011-11-03 12:33 ` [PATCHv2 2/9] KVM: Expose a version 2 architectural PMU to a guests Gleb Natapov
2011-11-07 14:22   ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-11-07 15:34     ` Gleb Natapov
2011-11-07 15:40       ` Avi Kivity
2011-11-07 14:34   ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-11-07 14:46     ` Avi Kivity
2011-11-07 14:59       ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-11-07 15:11         ` Gleb Natapov
2011-11-07 15:13         ` Avi Kivity
2011-11-07 15:19           ` Gleb Natapov
2011-11-07 15:25             ` Avi Kivity
2011-11-07 16:22               ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-11-07 16:26                 ` Gleb Natapov
2011-11-07 14:36   ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-11-07 15:25     ` Gleb Natapov
2011-11-07 16:45       ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-11-07 17:17         ` Gleb Natapov
2011-11-03 12:33 ` [PATCHv2 3/9] KVM: Add generic RDPMC support Gleb Natapov
2011-11-03 12:33 ` [PATCHv2 4/9] KVM: SVM: Intercept RDPMC Gleb Natapov
2011-11-03 12:33 ` [PATCHv2 5/9] KVM: VMX: " Gleb Natapov
2011-11-03 12:33 ` [PATCHv2 6/9] perf: expose perf capability to other modules Gleb Natapov
2011-11-07 14:07   ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-11-07 15:53     ` Gleb Natapov
2011-11-07 16:01       ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2011-11-07 16:22         ` Gleb Natapov
2011-11-07 16:25           ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-11-08 12:49     ` Gleb Natapov
2011-11-08 13:26       ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-11-08 13:54         ` Gleb Natapov
2011-11-08 14:12           ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-11-08 14:18             ` Gleb Natapov
2011-11-08 14:31               ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-11-10 11:56             ` Gleb Natapov
2011-11-03 12:33 ` [PATCHv2 7/9] KVM: Expose the architectural performance monitoring CPUID leaf Gleb Natapov
2011-11-07 14:09   ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-11-07 15:41     ` Gleb Natapov
2011-11-07 15:45       ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-11-07 15:54         ` Gleb Natapov
2011-11-03 12:33 ` [PATCHv2 8/9] KVM: x86 emulator: fix RDPMC privilege check Gleb Natapov
2011-11-03 12:33 ` [PATCHv2 9/9] KVM: x86 emulator: implement RDPMC (0F 33) Gleb Natapov

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