Re: [PATCHv2 7/9] KVM: Expose the architectural performancemonitoring CPUID leaf

[Gleb Natapov]

On Mon, Nov 07, 2011 at 04:45:57PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-11-07 at 17:41 +0200, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> > > > +               entry->eax = min(cap.version, 2)
> > > > +                       | (cap.num_counters_gp << 8)
> > > > +                       | (cap.bit_width_gp << 16)
> > > > +                       | (cap.events_mask_len << 24); 
> 
> 
> > Do you mean by doing cpuid here directly instead of checking perf
> > capability?
> 
> No I meant something like:
>         
>         union cpuid10_eax eax;
>         
>         eax.version	 = min(cap.version, 2);
>         eax.bit_width	 = cap.bit_width;
>         eax.num_counters = cap.num_counters;
>         eax.mask_length	 = cap.mask_length;
>         
>         entry->eax = eax.full;
>         
Ah, yes. Will do that.

--
			Gleb.
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