linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/4] perf: Allow guest PEBS for KVM owned counters

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Message-ID: <20140530161720.GE11096@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net>
Date:	Fri, 30 May 2014 18:17:20 +0200
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>, gleb@...nel.org,
	pbonzini@...hat.com, eranian@...gle.com, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] perf: Allow guest PEBS for KVM owned counters

On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 09:03:57AM -0700, Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 09:31:53AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 06:12:05PM -0700, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > > From: Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>
> > > 
> > > Currently perf unconditionally disables PEBS for guest.
> > > 
> > > Now that we have the infrastructure in place to handle
> > > it we can allow it for KVM owned guest events. For
> > > the perf needs to know that a event is owned by
> > > a guest. Add a new state bit in the perf_event for that.
> > > 
> > 
> > This doesn't make sense; why does it need to be owned?
> 
> Please read the complete patch kit

Please write coherent and self sustaining changelogs.

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