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From: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
To: Andrew Jones <drjones@redhat.com>
Cc: Wei Huang <wei@redhat.com>,
	qemu-arm@nongnu.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org,
	peter.maydell@linaro.org, shannon.zhao@linaro.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 1/1] arm64: add an option to turn on/off vpmu support
Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2016 15:26:59 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1470058019.3971.13.camel@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160801130808.2igpsx52opi7ogvk@kamzik.localdomain>

On Mon, 2016-08-01 at 15:08 +0200, Andrew Jones wrote:
> > I'm not sure a warning is enough: if I start a guest and
> > explicitly ask for a PMU, I expect it to be there, or for
> > the guest not to start at all. How does x86 behave in this
> > regard?
> 
> Peter had a good suggestion for this. We need to wrap the property
> addition in an arm_feature check like the has_el3 property. That will
> remove it from all cpu types that don't support it.

Wouldn't that mean that you'd be unable to use

  -cpu foo,pmu=off

if CPU model 'foo' doesn't support a PMU? I'd expect that
to work.

I've played around with this a bit on x86 and it doesn't
look like it necessarily behaves the way I'd expect it to,
either, so maybe this is just a case of my expectations
being unreasonable? :)

-- 
Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization

  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-08-01 13:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-07-28 16:38 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 1/1] arm64: add an option to turn on/off vpmu support Wei Huang
2016-07-29  0:59 ` Shannon Zhao
2016-07-29  6:54 ` Andrew Jones
2016-07-29 15:07   ` Wei Huang
2016-07-29 15:29   ` Peter Maydell
2016-08-01 12:04   ` Andrea Bolognani
2016-08-01 13:08     ` Andrew Jones
2016-08-01 13:16       ` Peter Maydell
2016-08-01 13:26       ` Andrea Bolognani [this message]
2016-08-01 13:32         ` Peter Maydell
2016-08-01 14:55           ` Andrea Bolognani
2016-08-13  6:06           ` Wei Huang
2016-08-15  9:24             ` Andrea Bolognani
2016-07-29  7:57 ` Peter Maydell
2016-07-29 15:08   ` Wei Huang
2016-07-29 15:25     ` Peter Maydell

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