linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 8/9] KVM, VMX: Add support for guest/host-only profiling

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Date:	Wed, 05 Oct 2011 17:34:49 +0200
From:	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
To:	Gleb Natapov <gleb@...hat.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, avi@...hat.com, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
	joerg.roedel@....com, mingo@...e.hu,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 8/9] KVM, VMX: Add support for guest/host-only
 profiling

On Wed, 2011-10-05 at 17:29 +0200, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 05, 2011 at 04:19:39PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Wed, 2011-10-05 at 14:01 +0200, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> > > +static void atomic_switch_perf_msrs(struct vcpu_vmx *vmx)
> > > +{
> > > +       int i, nr_msrs;
> > > +       struct perf_guest_switch_msr *msrs;
> > > +
> > > +       msrs = perf_guest_get_msrs(&nr_msrs);
> > > +
> > > +       if (!msrs)
> > > +               return;
> > > +
> > > +       for (i = 0; i < nr_msrs; i++)
> > > +               if (msrs[i].host == msrs[i].guest)
> > > +                       clear_atomic_switch_msr(vmx, msrs[i].msr);
> > > +               else
> > > +                       add_atomic_switch_msr(vmx, msrs[i].msr, msrs[i].guest,
> > > +                                       msrs[i].host);
> > > +} 
> > 
> > I don't think this will actually compile with PERF_EVENTS=n due to
> > struct perf_guest_switch_msr not being defined.
> Oops you are right. Turns out it is not enough to remove PERF_EVENTS
> from .config to disable it. It re-appears after "make oldconfig". Should
> I send incremental patch to fix that?

Frederic, what's the status of being able to disable PERF on x86 again?
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