From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Wei Wang <wei.w.wang@intel.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
pbonzini@redhat.com, kan.liang@intel.com, mingo@redhat.com,
rkrcmar@redhat.com, like.xu@intel.com, jannh@google.com,
arei.gonglei@huawei.com, jmattson@google.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 10/12] KVM/x86/lbr: lazy save the guest lbr stack
Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2019 13:39:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190709113942.GV3402@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190708151141.GL31027@tassilo.jf.intel.com>
On Mon, Jul 08, 2019 at 08:11:41AM -0700, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > I don't understand a word of that.
> >
> > Who cares if the LBR MSRs are touched; the guest expects up-to-date
> > values when it does reads them.
>
> This is for only when the LBRs are disabled in the guest.
But your Changelog didn't clearly state that. It was an unreadable mess.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-07-09 11:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-07-08 1:23 [PATCH v7 00/12] Guest LBR Enabling Wei Wang
2019-07-08 1:23 ` [PATCH v7 01/12] perf/x86: fix the variable type of the LBR MSRs Wei Wang
2019-07-08 1:23 ` [PATCH v7 02/12] perf/x86: add a function to get the lbr stack Wei Wang
2019-07-08 1:23 ` [PATCH v7 03/12] KVM/x86: KVM_CAP_X86_GUEST_LBR Wei Wang
2019-07-08 1:23 ` [PATCH v7 04/12] KVM/x86: intel_pmu_lbr_enable Wei Wang
2019-07-08 1:23 ` [PATCH v7 05/12] KVM/x86/vPMU: tweak kvm_pmu_get_msr Wei Wang
2019-07-08 1:23 ` [PATCH v7 06/12] KVM/x86: expose MSR_IA32_PERF_CAPABILITIES to the guest Wei Wang
2019-07-08 1:23 ` [PATCH v7 07/12] perf/x86: no counter allocation support Wei Wang
2019-07-08 14:29 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-07-09 2:58 ` Wei Wang
2019-07-09 9:43 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-07-09 11:36 ` Wei Wang
2019-07-08 1:23 ` [PATCH v7 08/12] KVM/x86/vPMU: Add APIs to support host save/restore the guest lbr stack Wei Wang
2019-07-08 14:48 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-07-09 3:04 ` Wei Wang
2019-07-09 9:39 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-07-09 11:34 ` Wei Wang
2019-07-09 12:19 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-07-10 8:19 ` Wei Wang
2019-07-09 11:45 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-07-10 8:21 ` Wei Wang
2019-07-08 1:23 ` [PATCH v7 09/12] perf/x86: save/restore LBR_SELECT on vCPU switching Wei Wang
2019-07-08 1:23 ` [PATCH v7 10/12] KVM/x86/lbr: lazy save the guest lbr stack Wei Wang
2019-07-08 14:53 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-07-08 15:11 ` Andi Kleen
2019-07-09 11:39 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2019-07-09 3:14 ` Wei Wang
2019-07-08 1:23 ` [PATCH v7 11/12] KVM/x86: remove the common handling of the debugctl msr Wei Wang
2019-07-08 1:23 ` [PATCH v7 12/12] KVM/VMX/vPMU: support to report GLOBAL_STATUS_LBRS_FROZEN Wei Wang
2019-07-08 15:09 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-07-09 3:24 ` Wei Wang
2019-07-09 11:35 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-07-10 9:23 ` Wei Wang
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