[PATCH v2 01/20] perf/doc: update design.txt for exclude_{host|guest} flags

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Update design.txt to reflect the presence of the exclude_host
and exclude_guest perf flags.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Murray <andrew.murray@xxxxxxx>
---
 tools/perf/design.txt | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/tools/perf/design.txt b/tools/perf/design.txt
index a28dca2..5b2b23b 100644
--- a/tools/perf/design.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/design.txt
@@ -222,6 +222,10 @@ The 'exclude_user', 'exclude_kernel' and 'exclude_hv' bits provide a
 way to request that counting of events be restricted to times when the
 CPU is in user, kernel and/or hypervisor mode.
 
+Furthermore the 'exclude_host' and 'exclude_guest' bits provide a way
+to request counting of events restricted to guest and host contexts when
+using KVM virtualisation.
+
 The 'mmap' and 'munmap' bits allow recording of PROT_EXEC mmap/munmap
 operations, these can be used to relate userspace IP addresses to actual
 code, even after the mapping (or even the whole process) is gone,
-- 
2.7.4



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