Re: [PATCH 2/4] perf: Allow guest PEBS for KVM owned counters

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Fri May 30 2014 - 12:17:34 EST


On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 09:03:57AM -0700, Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 09:31:53AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 06:12:05PM -0700, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > > From: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > 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?
>
> Please read the complete patch kit

Please write coherent and self sustaining changelogs.

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