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| author | Andrew Murray <[email protected]> | 2019-01-10 13:53:23 +0000 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> | 2019-01-21 11:01:18 +0100 |
| commit | 23e232bd986a3024d589cbdbd64e078574d70794 (patch) | |
| tree | 42c7b0bc416b86bf497a8043f90e07a6ec971d92 | |
| parent | d7393226d15add056285c8fc86723d54d7e0c77d (diff) | |
perf/doc: Update design.txt for exclude_{host|guest} flags
Update design.txt to reflect the presence of the exclude_host
and exclude_guest perf flags.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Murray <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[email protected]>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Mark Rutland <[email protected]>
Cc: Matt Turner <[email protected]>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Richard Henderson <[email protected]>
Cc: Russell King <[email protected]>
Cc: Sascha Hauer <[email protected]>
Cc: Shawn Guo <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: Will Deacon <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
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diff --git a/tools/perf/design.txt b/tools/perf/design.txt index a28dca2582aa..0453ba26cdbd 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 Linux as the hypervisor. + The 'mmap' and 'munmap' bits allow recording of PROT_EXEC mmap/munmap operations, these can be used to relate userspace IP addresses to actual code, even after the mapping (or even the whole process) is gone, |