Re: [PATCH 3/3] tools/power turbostat: allow turbostat to work when aperf is not available

[David Arcari]

On 11/25/25 4:55 PM, David Arcari wrote:
> On 11/25/25 2:14 PM, Len Brown wrote:
> > It would be helpful if you could describe exactly what environment you
> > are running in.
>
> It' a VMWARE instance.
>
> CPUID(0): AuthenticAMD 0xd CPUID levels
> CPUID(1): family:model:stepping 0x17:0:0 (23:0:0) microcode 0x0
> CPUID(0x80000000): max_extended_levels: 0x8000001f
> CPUID(1): SSE3 - - - - TSC MSR - - -
> CPUID(6): No-APERF, No-TURBO, No-DTS, No-PTM, No-HWP, No-HWPnotify, No- 
> HWPwindow, No-HWPepp, No-HWPpkg, No-EPB
> CPUID(7): No-SGX No-Hybrid
>
>
> > are there any MSRs?
>
> I'm not certain, is there something in particular you are looking for?

rdmsr returns zero for MSR_IA32_APERF and MSR_IA32_MPERF.

> > Is APERF available via perf, but not via MSR?
> > etc.

No.  add_msr_perf_counter() returns -1 as the call to open_perf_counter 
returns -1.

> I don't believe that APERF was available via perf. I'll go back and 
> verify when I have a chance.
>
> -DA
Is there anything else you need?

Thanks,
-DA