linux-kernel - Re: [tip:perfcounters/core] perf_counter: x86: Fix call-chain support to use NMI-safe methods

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Message-ID: <4A36AC87.7020200@goop.org>
Date:	Mon, 15 Jun 2009 13:18:15 -0700
From:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
To:	Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>
CC:	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...ymtl.ca>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	mingo@...hat.com, paulus@...ba.org, acme@...hat.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, penberg@...helsinki.fi,
	vegard.nossum@...il.com, efault@....de, npiggin@...e.de,
	tglx@...utronix.de, linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [tip:perfcounters/core] perf_counter: x86: Fix call-chain support
 to use NMI-safe methods

On 06/15/09 12:21, Avi Kivity wrote:
> You can read cr2 on nmi entry and nmi exit, and only write it if it 
> has changed (if it turns out that writing cr2 is expensive; ISTR that 
> it isn't).
>

Writing the real cr2 is expensive, but it may be cheap to write the 
virtual cr2 in a vmx context.  Or something.

     J
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