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authorLike Xu <like.xu@linux.intel.com>2020-06-13 16:09:49 +0800
committerPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>2020-07-02 15:51:46 +0200
commit097e4311cda952dfb047f2a49d35aa5de500d474 (patch)
tree9dc6dff0a1c21956573c584478be689113e72e0c /arch/x86/events/core.c
parentb2d6504761a50b9493eb4b20f6e188b673f20c32 (diff)
perf/x86: Add constraint to create guest LBR event without hw counter
The hypervisor may request the perf subsystem to schedule a time window to directly access the LBR records msrs for its own use. Normally, it would create a guest LBR event with callstack mode enabled, which is scheduled along with other ordinary LBR events on the host but in an exclusive way. To avoid wasting a counter for the guest LBR event, the perf tracks its hw->idx via INTEL_PMC_IDX_FIXED_VLBR and assigns it with a fake VLBR counter with the help of new vlbr_constraint. As with the BTS event, there is actually no hardware counter assigned for the guest LBR event. Signed-off-by: Like Xu <like.xu@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200514083054.62538-5-like.xu@linux.intel.com
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/events/core.c')
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diff --git a/arch/x86/events/core.c b/arch/x86/events/core.c
index 15cb7af7db18..d740c861724c 100644
--- a/arch/x86/events/core.c
+++ b/arch/x86/events/core.c
@@ -1104,6 +1104,7 @@ static inline void x86_assign_hw_event(struct perf_event *event,
switch (hwc->idx) {
case INTEL_PMC_IDX_FIXED_BTS:
+ case INTEL_PMC_IDX_FIXED_VLBR:
hwc->config_base = 0;
hwc->event_base = 0;
break;