linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] perf/x86/intel/pt: Don't die on VMXON

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Date:	Wed, 13 Apr 2016 13:32:41 +0300
From:	Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Cc:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Gleb Natapov <gleb@...nel.org>,
	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>, x86@...nel.org,
	kvm@...r.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, tglx@...utronix.de, hpa@...or.com,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...radead.org>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf/x86/intel/pt: Don't die on VMXON

Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org> writes:

>> @@ -3144,6 +3146,8 @@ static void vmclear_local_loaded_vmcss(void)
>>  static void kvm_cpu_vmxoff(void)
>>  {
>>  	asm volatile (__ex(ASM_VMX_VMXOFF) : : : "cc");
>> +
>> +	intel_pt_vmx(0);
>>  }
>
> Yeah so the name intel_pt_vmx() is pretty information-free because it has no verb, 
> only nouns - please name new functions descriptively to after what they do!

I do agree that it can use a better name (and this is a second attempt
already).

> Something like intel_pt_set_vmx_state() or so?

Hmm how about intel_pt_handle_vmx()? Ideally, akin to the VMXON/VMXOFF
insns, this could be two functions (intel_pt_handle_vmx{on,off}()) if
the global namespace can take it.

Regards,
--
Alex