[PATCH v2 01/20] perf/doc: update design.txt for exclude_{host|guest} flags
Suzuki K Poulose
suzuki.poulose at arm.com
Tue Nov 27 05:22:47 AEDT 2018
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 at 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
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