Re: [RFC] Unify KVM kernel-space and user-space code into a single project

Anthony Liguori
2010-03-22T19:29:03Z

On 03/22/2010 02:22 PM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>> Transitive had a product that was using a KVM context to run their
>> binary translator which allowed them full access to the host
>> processes virtual address space range. In this case, there is no
>> kernel and there are no devices.
>>
> And your point is that such vcpus should be excluded from profiling just
> because they fall outside the Qemu/libvirt umbrella?
>

You don't instrument it the way you'd instrument an operating system so
no, you don't want it to show up in perf kvm top.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> Ingo
>