Yes, perf dumps the status of the counters when it exists. independently
from the fact that they have been configured with int=1 or not.


On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 3:15 PM, Barret Rhoden <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 2015-12-16 at 14:52 "'Davide Libenzi' via Akaros"
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > You need to use "-cpu host" in kvm/qemu. Also, those negative numbers
> > are fine.
> > The IRQ trigger works that you set counter value at -icount, and wait
> > the overflow to zero to trigger the PMI IRQ.
>
> Okay, so if we're using int and icount, then we should ignore the
> values we get back and just look at the backtrace samples?  (similar to
> the timer stuff)
>
> > The patch is OK, but I don't think we need to worry about PMI version
> > 0, especially when we committed on anything which does not have
> > x2apic ☺
>
> Qemu has had support for x2apic for a while.  My rule for "burning the
> bridges" is that for virtualization, we can have whatever requirements
> we want (burn all the bridges).  For general operation, like just
> booting, I'd like a basic qemu to run - and preferably other VMMs.
> (maybe Akaros too!).
>
> Anyway, thanks for this patch set.  =)
>
> Merged to master at c9d5a6940cf8..6577674d3c3c (from, to]
>
> You can see the entire diff with 'git diff' or at
> https://github.com/brho/akaros/compare/c9d5a6940cf8...6577674d3c3c
>
>
> Barret
>
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