From: Wang Hui <john.whui1985@gmail.com>
To: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>, kvm <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Oprofile doesn't work well in Guest with VPMU
Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2014 09:37:02 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5337753E.6040807@gmail.com> (raw)
Hi
I was using oprofile to measuring hardware events in Guest, I have turn
on the cpu host-passthrough mode, but it seems that oprofile can get only
one sample.I added some debug info and found that problem is with the
perf_event's sample_period.
host's workflow is:
set counter MSR: set sample_period
|
create perf_event (first time, sample_period is right)
|
overflow
|
release perf_event
|
create perf_event (sample_period not reset)
|
set counter MSR: set sample_period (this should be done before create perf_event)
I think this is because oprofile doesn't disable pmu and then enable it,
it only reset PMU counter MSR, while this will not reprogram perf_event.
After add the code below to ppro_check_ctrs, oprofile works in guest.
wrmsrl(MSR_CORE_PERF_GLOBAL_CTRL, 0);
{
......
// reset counter msr
......
}
wrmsrl(MSR_CORE_PERF_GLOBAL_CTRL, 0x70000000f);
But I think the better way is to change VPMU mechanism. When set counter msr,
it was needed to reprogram counter as well.
--
Thanks
Wang Hui
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