Re: [PATCH] perf_event use rdpmc rather than rdmsr when possible inkernel

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Mon, 2012-02-27 at 11:06 -0500, Vince Weaver wrote:
> > > +   new_raw_count=native_read_pmc(hwc->event_base_rdpmc);
> > 
> > That really wants to be rdpmc(), bypassing paravirt like that isn't
> > nice.
> 
> I couldn't find another usable rdpmc() call in the kernel.  Should I add 
> one?  I admit I hadn't thought that this might break VMs not expecting
> rdpmc calls from the kernel. 

arch/x86/include/asm/msr.h

#define rdpmc(counter, low, high)                       \                                    
do {                                                    \                                    
        u64 _l = native_read_pmc((counter));            \                                    
        (low)  = (u32)_l;                               \                                    
        (high) = (u32)(_l >> 32);                       \                                    
} while (0)

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