lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2018]   [Nov]   [27]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 01/20] perf/doc: update design.txt for exclude_{host|guest} flags
From
Date
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

\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2018-11-26 19:23    [W:0.914 / U:0.348 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site