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From: "Roedel, Joerg" <Joerg.Roedel@amd.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] perf, x86: Use GO/HO bits in perf-ctr
Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 17:04:12 +0200
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On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 10:48:20AM -0400, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-05-10 at 16:35 +0200, Joerg Roedel wrote:
> > The AMD perf-counters support counting in guest or host-mode
> > only. Make use of that feature when user-space specified
> > guest/host-mode only counting.
> 
> Subject mentions x86, does Intel have anything similar so you can make
> it work for them too?

Intel does not support guest or host-only counting in the hardware (at
least according to my documentation). If wanted it could be approximated by
enabling/disabling the counters in the guest-entry path.
So subject should better say "perf, amd", right?

> Also, might be nice to ask the power and sparc64 people if their archs
> can also differentiate between guest and host thingies.

Right, I don't know if their hardware has similar features. I'll try to
find this out.

	Joerg