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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/2] perf/x86/intel/pt: Fail event creation if VMX operation is on
Em Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 03:05:10PM +0200, Alexander Shishkin escreveu:
> Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> writes:
>
> > On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 10:34:58AM +0200, Alexander Shishkin wrote:
> >
> >> Well, we can't make the limitation go away. You'll still have to stop
> >> kvms to get any 'meaningful' PT data.
> >
> > Why would you need to stop all VMs in order to get your !VM data? Sure,
> > you get black holes where the VM runs, but we should be able to see
> > everything else.
>
> No, what I mean is that if you run kvm prior to starting perf record,
> which I assume is the case for acme, your entire session is a black

Exactly.

> hole. The VMXON happens pretty early on, you can open /dev/kvm,
> ioctl(KVM_CREATE_VM) on it and that will do a VMXON already.
>
> The problem is that PT (on BDW) doesn't trace inside VM root mode, not
> just between VM entry/VM exit.

Which is just unfortunate, destroys PT for a rather common use case :-\

Guess I need a <fill in the broadwell successor that allows using PT
together with VMs>

Which is?

:-)

- Arnaldo

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