Re: [RFC] Unify KVM kernel-space and user-space code into a singleproject

From: Anthony Liguori
Date: Mon Mar 22 2010 - 15:29:18 EST


On 03/22/2010 02:22 PM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
Transitive had a product that was using a KVM context to run their
binary translator which allowed them full access to the host
processes virtual address space range. In this case, there is no
kernel and there are no devices.
And your point is that such vcpus should be excluded from profiling just
because they fall outside the Qemu/libvirt umbrella?

You don't instrument it the way you'd instrument an operating system so no, you don't want it to show up in perf kvm top.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

Ingo

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