On Tue, 2021-02-09 at 15:06 +0200, Yordan Karadzhov (VMware) wrote:
> Ciao Dario,
> 
Ciao! :-)

> There is a bug in one of the patches from the last patch-set I sent. 
> This bug was reported by Tzvetomir. My guess is that you are hitting
> the 
> same issue. If this is the case you must also have an error message 
> saying "Unable to find FreeSans font".
> 
Yep, I was seeing that too. And, TBH, for a while I installed font
packages like mad, thinking it was related to something like that. :-P

> You can manually do the fix suggested by Tzvetomir (see his reply to 
> [PATCH 15/24] kernel-shark: Update KsDualMarker and KsGLWidget) or
> just 
> get a corrected (rebased) version of the code from
> https://github.com/yordan-karadzhov/kernel-shark-v2.beta
> 
Ah, great! I updated (rebase included), and now plots are back.

> Please let me know if this fixes your issue.
>
Indeed it does, thanks a lot again.

Now, if I try "KVM Combo Plot":
- I still see super weird results if I use the KVM clock from last
  patch in Tzvetomir series (but I guess I'll report it there).
- If I use PTP, that kind of works.

If I trace a `sleep 1` on the host, the result is like this:

http://xenbits.xen.org/people/dariof/kernelshark-v2-ptp.png

So, there is ~ 1 sec of data from the guest, coming from trace-cmd
agent. The host, however, went on and traced a little bit longer, even
after closing the connection. It's not too terrible, I'm just curious
whether this is known or it's something weird and it's only me seeing
it.

Evaluating the correctness and the accuracy of the synchronization is a
little bit of a challenge, especially for me that I'm not used to it.
And, at least in part, because I still don't have this change in the
kernel I'm using right now, so some kvm_entry trace points are not
recorded, which means it's tricky pairing VMEntries and VMExits:

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/160873470698.11652.13483635328769030605.stgit@Wayrath/

It should come with 5.11, but I think I'll quickly apply it to the 5.10
that I'm running, to try to understand better hat's going on.

Thanks and Regards
-- 
Dario Faggioli, Ph.D
http://about.me/dario.faggioli
Virtualization Software Engineer
SUSE Labs, SUSE https://www.suse.com/
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