Re: [PATCH] coresight: etm4x: Add config to exclude kernel mode tracing

From: Leo Yan
Date: Fri Oct 16 2020 - 03:24:09 EST


On Thu, Oct 15, 2020 at 11:40:05PM -0700, Denis Nikitin wrote:
> Hi Mathieu,
>
> I think one of the use cases could be VMs.
> Is there isolation between EL1 guest kernels which we can control from perf
> in a system wide mode?

Sorry for suddenly jumping in.

For KVM, I think we need to implement mechanism for saving/restoring
CoreSight context for every guest OS, the CPU PMUs has implemented
related features [1].

Thanks,
Leo

[1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/arch/arm64/kvm/pmu.c