On Wed, 2011-05-11 at 11:55 -0400, Avi Kivity wrote:
> - counters that have PMI (interrupt) enabled stop counting after the
>   interrupt is signalled.  This is because we need one-shot samples
>   that keep counting, which perf doesn't support yet 

You'll have to reprogram the thing anyway, since not all hardware has
the same counter width:

[    0.046996] Performance Events: AMD PMU driver.
[    0.048998] ... bit width:              48

vs

[    0.026998] Performance Events: PEBS fmt0+, Core2 events, Intel PMU driver.
[    0.026998] ... bit width:              40

simply letting the thing run will not behave in a consistent fashion.

Or are you going to assume all software will properly read the cpuid
leaf and not assume bit width?

Also, I can't seem to locate where you fill that cpuid-leaf,
kvm_pmu_cpuid_update() seems to read the entry, not write it.
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