From: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
To: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: kevin.tian@intel.com, keir@xen.org, jbeulich@suse.com,
jun.nakajima@intel.com, andrew.cooper3@citrix.com, tim@xen.org,
dietmar.hahn@ts.fujitsu.com, xen-devel@lists.xen.org,
Aravind.Gopalakrishnan@amd.com, suravee.suthikulpanit@amd.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v11 for-xen-4.5 19/20] x86/VPMU: NMI-based VPMU support
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2014 15:18:13 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5421C775.6050803@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140923185225.GU3007@laptop.dumpdata.com>
On 09/23/2014 02:52 PM, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 07:58:00PM -0400, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
>> Add support for using NMIs as PMU interrupts.
> Could you explain what the benefits are vs using the regular vector?
>
> Any why one would wnat to use this?
To profile hypervisor code that is executed with interrupts disabled.
-boris
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-09-23 19:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-09-22 23:57 [PATCH v11 for-xen-4.5 00/20] x86/PMU: Xen PMU PV(H) support Boris Ostrovsky
2014-09-22 23:57 ` [PATCH v11 for-xen-4.5 01/20] common/symbols: Export hypervisor symbols to privileged guest Boris Ostrovsky
2014-09-23 14:28 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2014-09-22 23:57 ` [PATCH v11 for-xen-4.5 02/20] x86/VPMU: Manage VPMU_CONTEXT_SAVE flag in vpmu_save_force() Boris Ostrovsky
2014-09-23 14:44 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2014-09-23 15:06 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2014-09-23 15:26 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2014-09-22 23:57 ` [PATCH v11 for-xen-4.5 03/20] x86/VPMU: Set MSR bitmaps only for HVM/PVH guests Boris Ostrovsky
2014-09-22 23:57 ` [PATCH v11 for-xen-4.5 04/20] x86/VPMU: Make vpmu macros a bit more efficient Boris Ostrovsky
2014-09-22 23:57 ` [PATCH v11 for-xen-4.5 05/20] intel/VPMU: Clean up Intel VPMU code Boris Ostrovsky
2014-09-22 23:57 ` [PATCH v11 for-xen-4.5 06/20] vmx: Merge MSR management routines Boris Ostrovsky
2014-09-23 14:48 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2014-09-22 23:57 ` [PATCH v11 for-xen-4.5 07/20] x86/VPMU: Handle APIC_LVTPC accesses Boris Ostrovsky
2014-09-22 23:57 ` [PATCH v11 for-xen-4.5 08/20] intel/VPMU: MSR_CORE_PERF_GLOBAL_CTRL should be initialized to zero Boris Ostrovsky
2014-09-22 23:57 ` [PATCH v11 for-xen-4.5 09/20] x86/VPMU: Add public xenpmu.h Boris Ostrovsky
2014-09-22 23:57 ` [PATCH v11 for-xen-4.5 10/20] x86/VPMU: Make vpmu not HVM-specific Boris Ostrovsky
2014-09-22 23:57 ` [PATCH v11 for-xen-4.5 11/20] x86/VPMU: Interface for setting PMU mode and flags Boris Ostrovsky
2014-09-23 14:55 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2014-09-23 18:58 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2014-09-23 19:24 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2014-09-23 20:47 ` Daniel De Graaf
2014-09-23 21:06 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2014-09-24 8:31 ` Jan Beulich
2014-09-22 23:57 ` [PATCH v11 for-xen-4.5 12/20] x86/VPMU: Initialize PMU for PV(H) guests Boris Ostrovsky
2014-09-23 14:59 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2014-09-22 23:57 ` [PATCH v11 for-xen-4.5 13/20] x86/VPMU: Save VPMU state for PV guests during context switch Boris Ostrovsky
2014-09-23 15:01 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2014-09-23 15:10 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2014-09-23 15:18 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2014-09-22 23:57 ` [PATCH v11 for-xen-4.5 14/20] x86/VPMU: When handling MSR accesses, leave fault injection to callers Boris Ostrovsky
2014-09-22 23:57 ` [PATCH v11 for-xen-4.5 15/20] x86/VPMU: Add support for PMU register handling on PV guests Boris Ostrovsky
2014-09-23 15:08 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2014-09-23 15:49 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2014-09-22 23:57 ` [PATCH v11 for-xen-4.5 16/20] x86/VPMU: Handle PMU interrupts for " Boris Ostrovsky
2014-09-23 17:18 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2014-09-23 17:36 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2014-09-23 18:31 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2014-09-23 18:36 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2014-09-23 18:57 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2014-09-23 19:07 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2014-09-22 23:57 ` [PATCH v11 for-xen-4.5 17/20] x86/VPMU: Merge vpmu_rdmsr and vpmu_wrmsr Boris Ostrovsky
2014-09-23 18:38 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2014-09-22 23:57 ` [PATCH v11 for-xen-4.5 18/20] x86/VPMU: Add privileged PMU mode Boris Ostrovsky
2014-09-23 18:40 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2014-09-22 23:58 ` [PATCH v11 for-xen-4.5 19/20] x86/VPMU: NMI-based VPMU support Boris Ostrovsky
2014-09-23 18:52 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2014-09-23 19:18 ` Boris Ostrovsky [this message]
2014-09-23 19:27 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2014-09-22 23:58 ` [PATCH v11 for-xen-4.5 20/20] x86/VPMU: Move VPMU files up from hvm/ directory Boris Ostrovsky
2014-09-23 18:53 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
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