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SubjectRe: [PATCH] turbostat: Running on virtual machine is not supported
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On 07/26/2017 11:09 PM, Len Brown wrote:
> Henrique,
>
> I like your suggestion, thanks!
>
> BTW. let's discuss (and patch) turbostat on linux-pm, rather than on lkml.
>
> thanks,
> -Len
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 11:59 AM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
> <hmh@hmh.eng.br> wrote:
>> On Tue, 25 Jul 2017, Prarit Bhargava wrote:
>>> A common way of determining if the system is a virtual machine is to
>>> search /proc/cpuinfo flags entry for "hypervisor". turbostat must output
>>> a proper error message when found.
>>
>> Maybe you could output that message only if it fails to both use
>> /dev/msr and perf *and* it is under a virtual machine? That would have
>> better forward compatibility, maybe someday /dev/msr or perf will work
>> inside a VM for what turbostat needs...

To answer Len's previous question: I was wrong in my description. perf does
work (mostly) under virt. So this would only be for the msr code. I'll post a
v2 to linux-pm, and take Henrique's suggestion to only trigger on an msr read
failure.

P.

>>
>> --
>> Henrique Holschuh
>
>
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