From: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
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: Thu, 10 Nov 2011 13:56:08 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111110115603.GV3225@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1320761547.11519.3.camel@twins>
On Tue, Nov 08, 2011 at 03:12:27PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > I do not want to introduce
> > incidental regressions. For instance the patch below will introduce
> > regression on my Nehalem cpu. It reports value 0x44 in cpuid10.ebx which
> > means that unhalted_reference_cycles is not available (bit set means
> > event is not available), but event still works! Actually it is listed as
> > supported by the cpu in Table A-4 SDM 3B. Go figure.
>
> We'd better figure out why your machine says that. It could be we need
> another quirk for the nehalem machines, it could be your BIOS is smoking
> crack and there's nothing we can do about it.
>
Looks like on nehalem 013c event does not count unhalted reference
cycles like spec says it should, but instead increments with 133MHZ
frequency. So disabling it should be the right thing to do.
--
Gleb.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-11-10 11:56 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
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 [this message]
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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