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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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