[PATCH v3 00/20] KVM: ARM64: Add guest PMU support

[Shannon Zhao]

On 2015/10/17 1:01, Christopher Covington wrote:
> On 10/16/2015 12:55 AM, Wei Huang wrote:
>> > 
>> > 
>> > On 09/24/2015 05:31 PM, Shannon Zhao wrote:
>>> >> This patchset adds guest PMU support for KVM on ARM64. It takes
>>> >> trap-and-emulate approach. When guest wants to monitor one event, it
>>> >> will be trapped by KVM and KVM will call perf_event API to create a perf
>>> >> event and call relevant perf_event APIs to get the count value of event.
>>> >>
>>> >> Use perf to test this patchset in guest. When using "perf list", it
>>> >> shows the list of the hardware events and hardware cache events perf
>>> >> supports. Then use "perf stat -e EVENT" to monitor some event. For
>>> >> example, use "perf stat -e cycles" to count cpu cycles and
>>> >> "perf stat -e cache-misses" to count cache misses.
>>> >>
>>> >> Below are the outputs of "perf stat -r 5 sleep 5" when running in host
>>> >> and guest.
>>> >>
>>> >> Host:
>>> >>  Performance counter stats for 'sleep 5' (5 runs):
>>> >>
>>> >>           0.551428      task-clock (msec)         #    0.000 CPUs utilized            ( +-  0.91% )
>>> >>                  1      context-switches          #    0.002 M/sec
>>> >>                  0      cpu-migrations            #    0.000 K/sec
>>> >>                 48      page-faults               #    0.088 M/sec                    ( +-  1.05% )
>>> >>            1150265      cycles                    #    2.086 GHz                      ( +-  0.92% )
>>> >>    <not supported>      stalled-cycles-frontend
>>> >>    <not supported>      stalled-cycles-backend
>>> >>             526398      instructions              #    0.46  insns per cycle          ( +-  0.89% )
>>> >>    <not supported>      branches
>>> >>               9485      branch-misses             #   17.201 M/sec                    ( +-  2.35% )
>>> >>
>>> >>        5.000831616 seconds time elapsed                                          ( +-  0.00% )
>>> >>
>>> >> Guest:
>>> >>  Performance counter stats for 'sleep 5' (5 runs):
>>> >>
>>> >>           0.730868      task-clock (msec)         #    0.000 CPUs utilized            ( +-  1.13% )
>>> >>                  1      context-switches          #    0.001 M/sec
>>> >>                  0      cpu-migrations            #    0.000 K/sec
>>> >>                 48      page-faults               #    0.065 M/sec                    ( +-  0.42% )
>>> >>            1642982      cycles                    #    2.248 GHz                      ( +-  1.04% )
>>> >>    <not supported>      stalled-cycles-frontend
>>> >>    <not supported>      stalled-cycles-backend
>>> >>             637964      instructions              #    0.39  insns per cycle          ( +-  0.65% )
>>> >>    <not supported>      branches
>>> >>              10377      branch-misses             #   14.198 M/sec                    ( +-  1.09% )
>>> >>
>>> >>        5.001289068 seconds time elapsed                                          ( +-  0.00% )
>>> >>
>> > 
>> > Thanks for V3. One suggestion is to run more perf stress tests, such as
>> > "perf test". So we know the corner cases are covered as much as possible.
> I'd also recommend Vince Weaver's perf_event_tests. It tests things like
> signal-on-counter-overflow that I've never seen anywhere else (other than some
> of my own code).
> 
> https://github.com/deater/perf_event_tests

Ok. Thanks for your suggestion.

-- 
Shannon