linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 01/20] perf/doc: update design.txt for exclude

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Message-ID: <b5ba3edb-bc2a-225b-5a87-dd144104cabb@arm.com>
Date:   Mon, 26 Nov 2018 18:22:47 +0000
From:   Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@....com>
To:     Andrew Murray <andrew.murray@....com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 01/20] perf/doc: update design.txt for
 exclude_{host|guest} flags

Hi Andrew,

On 26/11/2018 11:12, Andrew Murray wrote:
> Update design.txt to reflect the presence of the exclude_host
> and exclude_guest perf flags.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Murray <andrew.murray@....com>

Thanks a lot for adding this !

> ---
>   tools/perf/design.txt | 4 ++++
>   1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/tools/perf/design.txt b/tools/perf/design.txt
> index a28dca2..5b2b23b 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/design.txt
> +++ b/tools/perf/design.txt
> @@ -222,6 +222,10 @@ The 'exclude_user', 'exclude_kernel' and 'exclude_hv' bits provide a
>   way to request that counting of events be restricted to times when the
>   CPU is in user, kernel and/or hypervisor mode.
>   
> +Furthermore the 'exclude_host' and 'exclude_guest' bits provide a way
> +to request counting of events restricted to guest and host contexts when
> +using KVM virtualisation.

minor nit: could we generalise this to :

"using Linux as the hypervisor".

Otherwise, looks good to me.

Cheers
Suzuki