linux-kernel - Re: perf with precise attribute kills all KVM based VMs

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Date:	Mon, 09 Jul 2012 08:58:38 -0600
From:	David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
CC:	Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>, Gleb Natapov <gleb@...hat.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: perf with precise attribute kills all KVM based VMs

On 7/9/12 8:52 AM, David Ahern wrote:
> On 7/9/12 8:49 AM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>> On Mon, 2012-07-09 at 08:47 -0600, David Ahern wrote:
>>>
>>> I found this testing changes to perf-kvm, but found the problem extends
>>> to just perf-record. With perf-record exclude_guest defaults to 1. See
>>> tools/perf/util/util.c, event_attr_init().
>>
>> You lost me there.. so perf-record defaults to exclude_guest=1 (which
>> would make the proposed patch I just send actually possible), but its
>> still going *bang* ?
>>
>
>
> I can do the formality of testing your proposed patch, but yes I think
> so. exclude_guest defaults to 1 because perf_guest defaults to false.


Let me dig for a few minutes. exclude_user is getting reset somewhere. 
Setting a breakpoint on sys_perf_event_open and dumping the attribute:

$1 = {type = 0, size = 80, config = 0, {sample_period = 4000, 
sample_freq = 4000}, sample_type = 263, read_format = 7,
   disabled = 1, inherit = 1, pinned = 0, exclusive = 0, exclude_user = 
0, exclude_kernel = 0, exclude_hv = 0, exclude_idle =
     0, mmap = 1, comm = 1, freq = 1, inherit_stat = 0, enable_on_exec = 
1, task = 0, watermark = 0, precise_ip = 1,
   mmap_data = 0, sample_id_all = 1, exclude_host = 0, exclude_guest = 
0, __reserved_1 = 0, {wakeup_events = 0,
     wakeup_watermark = 0}, bp_type = 0, {bp_addr = 0, config1 = 0}, 
{bp_len = 0, config2 = 0}, branch_sample_type = 0}


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