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Message-Id: <1547128414-50693-2-git-send-email-andrew.murray@arm.com>
Date:   Thu, 10 Jan 2019 13:53:23 +0000
From:   Andrew Murray <andrew.murray@....com>
To:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>,
        Richard Henderson <rth@...ddle.net>,
        Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@...assic.park.msu.ru>,
        Matt Turner <mattst88@...il.com>,
        Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        Shawn Guo <shawnguo@...nel.org>,
        Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@...gutronix.de>,
        Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
        Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>, suzuki.poulose@....com,
        robin.murphy@....com, Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>
Cc:     x86@...nel.org, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-alpha@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v5 01/12] perf/doc: update design.txt for exclude_{host|guest} flags

Update design.txt to reflect the presence of the exclude_host
and exclude_guest perf flags.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Murray <andrew.murray@....com>
---
 tools/perf/design.txt | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/tools/perf/design.txt b/tools/perf/design.txt
index a28dca2..0453ba2 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 Linux as the hypervisor.
+
 The 'mmap' and 'munmap' bits allow recording of PROT_EXEC mmap/munmap
 operations, these can be used to relate userspace IP addresses to actual
 code, even after the mapping (or even the whole process) is gone,
-- 
2.7.4

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