From: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
To: Wei Wang <wei.w.wang@intel.com>
Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, pbonzini@redhat.com,
mst@redhat.com, rkrcmar@redhat.com, mingo@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 0/4] Enable LBR for the guest
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2017 09:51:37 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170926165137.GR4311@tassilo.jf.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <59CA1417.7070602@intel.com>
> On the other side, it seems that the (guest) kernel driver also works
> without
> the above being supported, should we change it to report error and stop
> using the PMU features when the check of the above two fails (at
> intel_pmu_init())?
You could add the extra check for the LBR code yes, although it already checks
if the LBR MSRs work, so in practice it's likely already covered.
-Andi
prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-09-26 16:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-09-25 4:44 [PATCH v1 0/4] Enable LBR for the guest Wei Wang
2017-09-25 4:44 ` [PATCH v1 1/4] KVM/vmx: re-write the msr auto switch feature Wei Wang
2017-09-25 11:54 ` Paolo Bonzini
2017-09-25 13:02 ` Wei Wang
2017-09-25 14:24 ` Paolo Bonzini
2017-09-25 4:44 ` [PATCH v1 2/4] KVM/vmx: auto switch MSR_IA32_DEBUGCTLMSR Wei Wang
2017-09-25 11:57 ` Paolo Bonzini
2017-09-25 4:44 ` [PATCH v1 3/4] perf/x86: add a function to get the lbr stack Wei Wang
2017-09-25 4:44 ` [PATCH v1 4/4] KVM/vmx: enable lbr for the guest Wei Wang
2017-09-25 9:16 ` Paolo Bonzini
2017-09-25 12:57 ` Wei Wang
2017-09-25 14:57 ` Andi Kleen
2017-09-26 8:56 ` Wei Wang
2017-09-26 16:41 ` Andi Kleen
2017-09-27 1:27 ` Wei Wang
2017-09-25 14:59 ` [PATCH v1 0/4] Enable LBR " Andi Kleen
2017-09-26 8:47 ` Wei Wang
2017-09-26 16:51 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
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