On Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 10:37:31AM +0000, Andrew Murray wrote:
> The interaction between the exclude_{host,guest} flags,
> exclude_{user,kernel,hv} flags and presence of VHE can result in
> different exception levels being filtered by the ARMv8 PMU. As this
> can be confusing let's document how they work on arm64.
>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Murray <andrew.murray@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> Documentation/arm64/perf.txt | 74 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 74 insertions(+)
> create mode 100644 Documentation/arm64/perf.txt
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/arm64/perf.txt b/Documentation/arm64/perf.txt
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..604446c1f720
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/Documentation/arm64/perf.txt
> @@ -0,0 +1,74 @@
> +Perf Event Attributes
> +=====================
> +
> +Author: Andrew Murray <andrew.murray@xxxxxxx>
> +Date: 2019-03-06
> +
> +exclude_user
> +------------
> +
> +This attribute excludes userspace.
> +
> +Userspace always runs at EL0 and thus this attribute will exclude EL0.
> +
> +
> +exclude_kernel
> +--------------
> +
> +This attribute excludes the kernel.
> +
> +The kernel runs at EL2 with VHE and EL1 without. Guest kernels always run
> +at EL1.
> +
> +This attribute will exclude EL1 and additionally EL2 on a VHE system.
I find this last sentence a bit confusing, because it can be read to imply
that if you don't set exclude_kernel and you're in a guest on a VHE system,
then you can profile EL2.
> +exclude_hv
> +----------
> +
> +This attribute excludes the hypervisor, we ignore this flag on a VHE system
> +as we consider the host kernel to be the hypervisor.
Similar comment as the above: I don't think this makes sense when you look
at things from the guest perspective.
> +On a non-VHE system we consider the hypervisor to be any code that runs at
> +EL2 which is predominantly used for guest/host transitions.
> +
> +This attribute will exclude EL2 on a non-VHE system.
> +
> +
> +exclude_host / exclude_guest
> +----------------------------
> +
> +This attribute excludes the KVM host.
But there are two attributes...
Will
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