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authorAndrew Murray <andrew.murray@arm.com>2019-01-10 13:53:23 +0000
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2019-01-21 11:01:18 +0100
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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 <andrew.murray@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Cc: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk> Cc: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de> Cc: Shawn Guo <shawnguo@kernel.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org Cc: robin.murphy@arm.com Cc: suzuki.poulose@arm.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1547128414-50693-2-git-send-email-andrew.murray@arm.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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@@ -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,