Re: use of PMU in guest generates messages in host

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On 01/12/2012 07:07 PM, David Ahern wrote:
> On 01/12/2012 07:14 AM, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> >>> This is MSR_OFFCORE_RSP_0 MSR which is not (yet?) supported. What is
> >>> your host cpu and qemu command line?
> >>
> >> Host CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU           E5540  @ 2.53GHz
> >> and '-cpu host' is used on the qemu command line.
> >>
> > Use "-cpu host,model=29" should avid this message. We need to teach
> > guest to not use non architectural MSRs.
>
> Rather than teaching (changing guest code) why not change KVM to not log
> a message on these writes until it is supported by KVM?

Since we aren't properly emulating these registers, the guest may
mulfunction.  Linux does not, but another guest may.  If we silence the
messages, then we have a malfunctioning guest with no hint in dmesg.

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