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[v2,01/20] perf/doc: update design.txt for exclude_{host|guest} flags

Message ID 1543230756-15319-2-git-send-email-andrew.murray@arm.com (mailing list archive)
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Series perf/core: Generalise event exclusion checking | expand

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Commit Message

Andrew Murray Nov. 26, 2018, 11:12 a.m. UTC
Update design.txt to reflect the presence of the exclude_host
and exclude_guest perf flags.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Murray <andrew.murray@arm.com>
---
 tools/perf/design.txt | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

Comments

Suzuki K Poulose Nov. 26, 2018, 6:22 p.m. UTC | #1
Hi Andrew,

On 26/11/2018 11:12, Andrew Murray wrote:
> Update design.txt to reflect the presence of the exclude_host
> and exclude_guest perf flags.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Murray <andrew.murray@arm.com>

Thanks a lot for adding this !

> ---
>   tools/perf/design.txt | 4 ++++
>   1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/tools/perf/design.txt b/tools/perf/design.txt
> index a28dca2..5b2b23b 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/design.txt
> +++ b/tools/perf/design.txt
> @@ -222,6 +222,10 @@ The 'exclude_user', 'exclude_kernel' and 'exclude_hv' bits provide a
>   way to request that counting of events be restricted to times when the
>   CPU is in user, kernel and/or hypervisor mode.
>   
> +Furthermore the 'exclude_host' and 'exclude_guest' bits provide a way
> +to request counting of events restricted to guest and host contexts when
> +using KVM virtualisation.

minor nit: could we generalise this to :

"using Linux as the hypervisor".

Otherwise, looks good to me.

Cheers
Suzuki
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diff --git a/tools/perf/design.txt b/tools/perf/design.txt
index a28dca2..5b2b23b 100644
--- a/tools/perf/design.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/design.txt
@@ -222,6 +222,10 @@  The 'exclude_user', 'exclude_kernel' and 'exclude_hv' bits provide a
 way to request that counting of events be restricted to times when the
 CPU is in user, kernel and/or hypervisor mode.
 
+Furthermore the 'exclude_host' and 'exclude_guest' bits provide a way
+to request counting of events restricted to guest and host contexts when
+using KVM virtualisation.
+
 The 'mmap' and 'munmap' bits allow recording of PROT_EXEC mmap/munmap
 operations, these can be used to relate userspace IP addresses to actual
 code, even after the mapping (or even the whole process) is gone,