Re: [PATCH V4 1/2] perf & kvm: Enhance perf to collect KVM guestos statistics from host side

From: Avi Kivity
Date: Sat Apr 17 2010 - 14:23:53 EST


On 04/16/2010 10:34 AM, Zhang, Yanmin wrote:
Below is the kernel patch to enable perf to collect guest os statistics.

Joerg,

Would you like to add support on svm? I don't know the exact point to trigger
NMI to host with svm.

See below code with vmx:

+ kvm_before_handle_nmi(&vmx->vcpu);
asm("int $2");
+ kvm_after_handle_nmi(&vmx->vcpu);

Signed-off-by: Zhang Yanmin<yanmin_zhang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Can you please split it further?

Patch 1 introduces perf_register_guest_info_callbacks() and related. Ingo can merge this into a branch in tip.git.
Patch 2 is just the kvm bits, I'll apply that after merging the branch with patch 1.
Patch 3 adds the tools/perf changes.

This way perf development can continue on tip.git, and kvm development can continue on kvm.git, without the code bases diverging and requiring a merge later.

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