Re: [PATCH 2/6] kvm: x86: drop read_tsc_offset()

[Jim Mattson]

Doesn't that assume you can run the merge program in L1?

On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 10:37 PM, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On 20/09/2016 00:18, Jim Mattson wrote:
>> Hmmm. Yes, I think it does. With this patch series,
>> vcpu->arch.tsc_offset appears to contain L1's TSC offset (perhaps
>> making vmx->nested.vmcs01_tsc_offset redundant).
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>> However, this unfortunately limits the newly added functionality to
>> merging host and *L1* guest traces. It doesn't work with L2 (or
>> deeper) guests. Or perhaps I'm missing something?
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> You can merge L1/L2 first and then host/L1.
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> Paolo