On Mon, 2011-11-07 at 17:53 +0200, Gleb Natapov wrote: > I removed branch-miss-retired here because for perf user it exists. Perf > approximates it by other event but perf user shouldn't know that. A > guest is not always runs with exactly same cpu model number as a host, > so if we will not drop the bit here if guest will see cpu model other > than the one that has this quirk it will not be able to use the event.
Right, so what model number do you expose? Anyway I don't really mind masking the thing as long as we grow an ebx iteration, > BTW why perf does not check event mask to see if architectural event is > available before programming it? No idea why not.. just one of those things nobody noticed/got around to doing or so. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
