linux-kernel - Re: [PATCHSET 0/9] perf tools: Do not set attr.exclude

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Message-ID: <Zxk5_OaAWdiVZhvr@google.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2024 11:01:32 -0700
From: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>
To: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>,
	Ian Rogers <irogers@...gle.com>,
	Kan Liang <kan.liang@...ux.intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>, Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@...el.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-perf-users@...r.kernel.org,
	Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@....com>,
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
	James Clark <james.clark@....com>, Kajol Jain <kjain@...ux.ibm.com>,
	Thomas Richter <tmricht@...ux.ibm.com>,
	Atish Patra <atishp@...shpatra.org>,
	Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@...osinc.com>,
	Mingwei Zhang <mizhang@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCHSET 0/9] perf tools: Do not set attr.exclude_guest by
 default (v5)

On Tue, Oct 15, 2024 at 11:23:50PM -0700, Namhyung Kim wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I found perf tools set exclude_guest bit inconsistently.  It used to
> set the bit but now the default event for perf record doesn't.  So I'm
> wondering why we want the bit in the first place.
> 
> Actually it's not good for PMUs don't support any exclusion like AMD
> IBS because it disables new features after the exclude_guest due to
> the missing feature detection logic.
>
> [...]

Applied to perf-tools-next, thanks!

Best regards,
Namhyung