On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 12:34 PM, Gleb Natapov <gleb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 04, 2012 at 12:24:17AM +0530, shashank rachamalla wrote: >> On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 12:13 AM, shashank rachamalla >> <shashank.rachamalla@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 10:28 PM, Gleb Natapov <gleb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> On Tue, Apr 03, 2012 at 07:20:04PM +0530, shashank rachamalla wrote: >> >>> On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 12:37 PM, Gleb Natapov <gleb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >>> > On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 12:20:30PM +0530, shashank rachamalla wrote: >> >>> >> On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 10:21 PM, Gleb Natapov <gleb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >>> >> > On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 09:47:55PM +0530, shashank rachamalla wrote: >> >>> >> >> >> I guess things are working fine with perf. But why not with oprofile ? >> >>> >> >> >> >> >>> >> >> > Looks like it. I never tried oprofile. Will try to reproduce your >> >>> >> >> > problem and see what oprofile is doing. >> >>> >> >> >> >>> >> >> I am using ubuntu 10.04 with 2.6.32-21-generic kernel as guest and >> >>> >> >> oprofile 0.9.6. >> >>> >> >> Also, I have tried to capture kvm-events ( perf patch ) in host while >> >>> >> >> running oprofile and perf in guest. >> >>> >> >> Please see the attachment. I have run the tests in three cases for the >> >>> >> >> around 5 secs. >> >>> >> >> >> >>> >> >> There are more number of MSR reads and writes in case of perf which I >> >>> >> >> think is normal. However, there are very few MSR reads and writes with >> >>> >> >> oprofile. Also, the number of NMI exceptions are too high in case of >> >>> >> >> oprofile. >> >>> >> >> >> >>> >> > Which host kernel are you using? Try latest kvm.git and check if you see >> >>> >> > something unusual in dmesg. >> >>> >> >> >>> >> Currenly running 3.3.0-rc5. will try with the latest source from kvm >> >>> >> git and let you know. >> >>> >> >> >>> >> >> >>> > Thanks, there were some fixes that didn't make it into 3.3. rdpmc >> >>> > instruction emulation fix is one of them. If oprofile uses it this can >> >>> > explain the problem. >> >>> > >> >>> I have tried with latest kvm source from git and also with 3.0 guest >> >>> kernel but oprofile fails to collect any samples on guest. I am using >> >>> a core2duo processor which is considered by oprofile as pentium pro >> >>> model. >> >>> >> >> core2duo on the host or the guest? What is your qemu command line? >> >> >> > both. qemu command line below. >> > sudo /usr/local/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 -drive >> > file=vdisk1.img,if=virtio -cpu host -m 2000 -net nic,model=virtio -net >> > user >> > >> >> please find more info ( /proc/cpuinfo and uname of both host and guest >> ) in attached files. >> > oprofile does not work for me even on the host. After trying to use it I can > see why perf was written in the first place. > ok. seems to be. will move over to perf as its working fine inside guest. > -- > Gleb. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
