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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
To: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
Cc: Dongsheng Yang <yangds.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, eranian@google.com,
	dsahern@gmail.com, adrian.hunter@intel.com, mingo@redhat.com,
	paulus@samba.org, a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@iki.fi>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] Add support of guest user space symbols for perf kvm command.
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2013 16:34:53 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131219153453.GA20044@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131219141232.GM4819@ghostprotocols.net>


* Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net> wrote:

> Em Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 05:54:50PM -0500, Dongsheng Yang escreveu:
> > Hi all,
> > 	This patch add support of guest user space symbols for perf kvm command.
> 
> Cool stuff! Please see some comments on the patches, with requests for
> possible patch splits and better changeset comments.
>  
> > Example:
> >         # perf kvm --guestmount /tmp/guestmount/ top
> >         Samples: 1K of event 'cycles', Event count (approx.): 259112905

Btw., having to specify a '--guestmount /tmp/guestmount/' just to 
achieve a natural feature (proper guest symbol resolution) is a poor 
user interface, obviously.

Is there perhaps a predictable pattern as to where qemu (or libvirt) 
puts a user's guest mounts, or some other discovery method?

If yes then it would be possible to automatically look for that 
pattern, and use the guest filesystem when it's available, without the 
user having to manually configure the path.

( Ideally we'd have kernel help for discovering this, but last time I
  raised that with the KVM folks there was resistence. )

Thanks,

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2013-12-19 15:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-12-19 22:54 [PATCH 0/4] Add support of guest user space symbols for perf kvm command Dongsheng Yang
2013-12-19 14:12 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2013-12-19 15:34   ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2013-12-19 16:28     ` David Ahern
2013-12-19 22:54 ` [PATCH 1/4] perf tools: Add support of guest in synthesize_threads Dongsheng Yang
2013-12-19 14:21   ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2013-12-19 22:54 ` [PATCH 2/4] perf tools: Add support for PERF_RECORD_MISC_GUEST_USER in thread__find_addr_map() Dongsheng Yang
2013-12-19 22:54 ` [PATCH 3/4] perf tools: Add support of user space symbols for guest in perf kvm top Dongsheng Yang
2013-12-19 22:54 ` [PATCH 4/4] perf tools: Add support of user space symbols for guest in perf kvm record Dongsheng Yang

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