From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754553AbaE3HcA (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 May 2014 03:32:00 -0400 Received: from casper.infradead.org ([85.118.1.10]:51395 "EHLO casper.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753146AbaE3Hb6 (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 May 2014 03:31:58 -0400 Date: Fri, 30 May 2014 09:31:53 +0200 From: Peter Zijlstra To: Andi Kleen Cc: gleb@kernel.org, pbonzini@redhat.com, eranian@google.com, kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andi Kleen Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] perf: Allow guest PEBS for KVM owned counters Message-ID: <20140530073153.GA20167@laptop.programming.kicks-ass.net> References: <1401412327-14810-1-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org> <1401412327-14810-3-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1401412327-14810-3-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2012-12-30) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 06:12:05PM -0700, Andi Kleen wrote: > From: Andi Kleen > > Currently perf unconditionally disables PEBS for guest. > > Now that we have the infrastructure in place to handle > it we can allow it for KVM owned guest events. For > the perf needs to know that a event is owned by > a guest. Add a new state bit in the perf_event for that. > This doesn't make sense; why does it need to be owned?