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Tue, 10 Feb 2026 08:50:00 +0000 Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2026 08:49:59 +0000 Message-ID: <86v7g5asp4.wl-maz@kernel.org> From: Marc Zyngier To: Colton Lewis Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, Alexandru Elisei , Paolo Bonzini , Jonathan Corbet , Russell King , Catalin Marinas , Will Deacon , Oliver Upton , Mingwei Zhang , Joey Gouly , Suzuki K Poulose , Zenghui Yu , Mark Rutland , Shuah Khan , Ganapatrao Kulkarni , linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, kvmarm@lists.linux.dev, linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org, linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 00/19] ARM64 PMU Partitioning In-Reply-To: <20260209221414.2169465-1-coltonlewis@google.com> References: <20260209221414.2169465-1-coltonlewis@google.com> User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.15.9 (Almost Unreal) SEMI-EPG/1.14.7 (Harue) FLIM-LB/1.14.9 (=?UTF-8?B?R29qxY0=?=) APEL-LB/10.8 EasyPG/1.0.0 Emacs/30.1 (aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu) MULE/6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI-EPG 1.14.7 - "Harue") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 185.219.108.64 X-SA-Exim-Rcpt-To: coltonlewis@google.com, kvm@vger.kernel.org, alexandru.elisei@arm.com, pbonzini@redhat.com, corbet@lwn.net, linux@armlinux.org.uk, catalin.marinas@arm.com, will@kernel.org, oliver.upton@linux.dev, mizhang@google.com, joey.gouly@arm.com, suzuki.poulose@arm.com, yuzenghui@huawei.com, mark.rutland@arm.com, shuah@kernel.org, gankulkarni@os.amperecomputing.com, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, kvmarm@lists.linux.dev, linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org, linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: maz@kernel.org X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on disco-boy.misterjones.org); SAEximRunCond expanded to false X-CRM114-Version: 20100106-BlameMichelson ( TRE 0.8.0 (BSD) ) MR-646709E3 X-CRM114-CacheID: sfid-20260210_005003_596173_10114D71 X-CRM114-Status: GOOD ( 17.27 ) X-BeenThere: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.34 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: "linux-arm-kernel" Errors-To: linux-arm-kernel-bounces+linux-arm-kernel=archiver.kernel.org@lists.infradead.org On Mon, 09 Feb 2026 22:13:55 +0000, Colton Lewis wrote: > > This series creates a new PMU scheme on ARM, a partitioned PMU that > allows reserving a subset of counters for more direct guest access, > significantly reducing overhead. More details, including performance > benchmarks, can be read in the v1 cover letter linked below. > > An overview of what this series accomplishes was presented at KVM > Forum 2025. Slides [1] and video [2] are linked below. > > IMPORTANT: This iteration does not yet implement the dynamic counter > reservation approach suggested by Will Deacon in January [3]. I am > working on it, but wanted to send this version first to keep momentum > going and ensure I've addressed all issues besides that. [...] As I have asked before, this is missing an example of how userspace is going to use this. Without it, it is impossible to correctly review this series. Please consider this as a blocker. Thanks, M. -- Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.