Re: [PATCH v4 01/16] perf/x86/intel: Add x86_pmu.pebs_vmx for Ice Lake Servers

[Liuxiangdong]

On 2021/4/12 23:25, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > The reason why soft lockup happens may be the unmapped EPT pages. So, do we
> > have a way to map all gpa
> > before we use pebs on Skylake?
> Can you configure a VT-d device, that will implicitly pin all pages for the
> IOMMU. I *think* that should be enough for testing.
>
> -Andi

Thanks!
But,  it doesn't seem to work because host still soft lockup when I 
configure a SR-IOV direct network card for vm.

Besides, I have tried to configure 1G-hugepages for 2G-mem vm.  Each of 
guest numa nodes has 1G mem.
When I use pebs (perf record -e cycles:pp) in guest, there are 
successful pebs samples on skylake just for a while and
then I cannot get pebs sample. Host doesn't soft lockup in this process.

Is this method effective?   Are there something wrong on skylake for we 
can only get a few samples ?  Maybe IRQ?