Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 01/20] perf/doc: update design.txt for exclude_{host|guest} flags | From | Suzuki K Poulose <> | Date | Mon, 26 Nov 2018 18:22:47 +0000 |
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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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