Re: use perf to get LLC-loads count in Guest

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>Currently counters that need extra regs are not supported by KVM PMU
>emulation
Thank you, Gleb. But actually only 1% chance, I got the LLC-loads
count nonzero, I really have no idea why this happend.

On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 8:49 PM, Gleb Natapov <gleb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 02:08:07AM +0800, Storm Wang wrote:
>> Hello guys
>>
>> here I have a problem, when I used perf in Guest, the count of LLC-loads
>> usually returns 0. LLC-loads was a hardware cache event, besides the
>> setting of general PMU MSR, need to set MSR_OFFCORE_RSP_0 as well, in perf,
>> it would be the extra_reg and extra_config in "hw_perf_event". I add some
>> debuginfo in function "read_pmc" and found that when measuring LLC-loads,
>> pmc->perf_event->hw.extra_reg is 0x0, and the counter's number was always
>> the same. I think this is the reason, but I can't find when and where the
>> value changed.
>>
>> Anybody has some idea for this?
>>
> Currently counters that need extra regs are not supported by KVM PMU
> emulation.
>
> --
>                         Gleb.
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