Re: [PATCH v1 5/5] KVM: Expose a version 1 architectural PMU to guests

[Avi Kivity]

On 05/18/2011 02:32 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-05-18 at 13:07 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >
> >  It does through raw events - which are indeed model specific.
>
> Which is exactly what is needed anyway, he gets a raw msr value.
>
> The only thing that is not exposed is the ANY bit, but since KVM doesn't
> expose HT anyway that doesn't matter.

If I were to use raw events, I'd need to program AMD and Intel hosts 
separately.  As it is, I just use the generic counters and the perf 
backend does its thing.

(note, INV and CMASK are hardly important, I think we can get away 
without implementing them)

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