Re: perf uncore & lkvm woes

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On 08/17/2012 09:56 AM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-08-17 at 09:40 +0800, Yan, Zheng wrote:
>> 
>> Peter, do I need to submit a patch disables uncore on virtualized CPU?
>> 
> I think Avi prefers the method where KVM 'fakes' the MSRs and we have to
> detect if the MSRs actually work or not.

s/we have/we don't have/.

> 
> If you're willing to have a go at that, please do so. If you're not sure
> how to do the KVM part, I'm sure Avi and/or Gleb can help you out.

Certainly, please see kvm_pmu_get_msr() and kvm_pmu_set_msr().

The approach is that if an msr write can be emulated correctly (for
example, it disables a counter) then we let it proceed; if it cannot be
emulated correctly (for example it enables a counter that we cannot
emulate), then we ignore it, but print out a message that tells the user
that we're faking something that may cause the guest to malfunction.


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