Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 16 Mar 2010 12:40:59 +0200 | From | Avi Kivity <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Enhance perf to collect KVM guest os statistics from host side |
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On 03/16/2010 12:20 PM, Ingo Molnar wrote: >>>> >>>> The symbol server's client can certainly access the bits through vmchannel. >>>> >>> Ok, that would work i suspect. >>> >>> Would be nice to have the symbol server in tools/perf/ and also make it easy >>> to add it to the initrd via a .config switch or so. >>> >>> That would have basically all of the advantages of being built into the kernel >>> (availability, configurability, transparency, hackability), while having all >>> the advantages of a user-space approach as well (flexibility, extensibility, >>> robustness, ease of maintenance, etc.). >>> >> Note, I am not advocating building the vmchannel client into the host >> kernel. [...] >> > Neither am i. What i suggested was a user-space binary/executable built in > tools/perf and put into the initrd. >
I'm confused - initrd seems to be guest-side. I was talking about the host side.
For the guest, placing the symbol server in tools/ is reasonable.
-- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
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