From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>,
Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>,
Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>,
Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>,
Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org,
Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@amd.com>,
Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
James Clark <james.clark@arm.com>,
Athira Rajeev <atrajeev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Kajol Jain <kjain@linux.ibm.com>,
Thomas Richter <tmricht@linux.ibm.com>,
Atish Patra <atishp@atishpatra.org>,
Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>,
Mingwei Zhang <mizhang@google.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH 0/4] perf tools: Do not set attr.exclude_guest by default (v1)
Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2024 10:56:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240902085628.GA4723@noisy.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240902014621.2002343-1-namhyung@kernel.org>
On Sun, Sep 01, 2024 at 06:46:17PM -0700, Namhyung Kim wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I found perf tools set exclude_guest bit inconsistently. It used to
> set the bit but now the default event for perf record doesn't. So I'm
> wondering why we want the bit in the first place.
>
> Actually it's not good for PMUs don't support any exclusion like AMD
> IBS because it disables new features after the exclude_guest due to
> the missing feature detection logic.
>
> AFAIK it doesn't matter for the most cases but perf kvm. If users
> need to set the bit, they can still use :H modifier. Please let me
> know if it's ok for you.
IIRc the point of setting exclude_guest by default was so that default
perf keeps working in the precense of that PMU pass through mess, no?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-09-02 8:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-09-02 1:46 [RFC/PATCH 0/4] perf tools: Do not set attr.exclude_guest by default (v1) Namhyung Kim
2024-09-02 1:46 ` [PATCH 1/4] perf tools: Don't set attr.exclude_guest by default Namhyung Kim
2024-09-02 9:15 ` James Clark
2024-09-02 17:38 ` Namhyung Kim
2024-09-02 1:46 ` [PATCH 2/4] perf tools: Simplify evsel__add_modifier() Namhyung Kim
2024-09-02 1:46 ` [PATCH 3/4] perf stat: Add --exclude-guest option Namhyung Kim
2024-09-02 1:46 ` [PATCH 4/4] perf tools: Do not set exclude_guest for precise_ip Namhyung Kim
2024-09-02 8:56 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
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2024-09-03 8:39 ` [RFC/PATCH 0/4] perf tools: Do not set attr.exclude_guest by default (v1) Peter Zijlstra
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