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Keir, The following 3 patches allow HVM (SVM and VT) guests to be passively profiled using the very latest patches from Renato. These patches apply to 11470. Renato''s patches: http://xenoprof/sourceforge.net oprofile-0.9.1-xen-r2.patch And also a patch not posted FAIK (oprofile-0.9.1-fix-hvm-addr-overlap.patch) which is in the attached tar.bz2 file. hvm_xenoprofile_1.patch - The first

See below... ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: RE: [Xen-devel] xenoprof passive profiling and "mode" setting Date: Wednesday 05 July 2006 21:53 From: "Yang, Xiaowei" <xiaowei.yang@intel.com> To: "Keir Fraser" <Keir.Fraser@cl.cam.ac.uk>, "Ray Bryant" <raybry@mpdtxmail.amd.com> Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com

Renato, If one creates an HVM domain (say domain 1) and then does echo 1 > /dev/oprofile/passive_domains one then gets the following on the Xen serial console: (XEN) xenoprof.c:143:d0 xenoprof/x86 with autotranslated mode enabledisn''t supported yet (XEN) xenoprof.c:143:d0 xenoprof/x86 with autotranslated mode enabledisn''t supported yet (XEN) xenoprof.c:143:d0

I''m looking into getting Xenoprof to tun in an HVM domain, since we will eventually need a profiler for HVM domains to track down areas of poor performance. (HVMs have poor performance? :) ) Being relatively new to OProfile, Xenoprof, and Xen internals, I would appreciate any pointers, tips, and comments on how to work the implementation. I see three basic areas of work. 1. Implement

Xiaowei, I''m puzzled by the following bit of code in p4_check_ctrs():        if (guest_kernel_mode(current, regs))                 mode = 1;         else if (ring_0(regs))                 mode = 2; If I look at the definition for guest_kernel_mode() it is: include/asm-x86/x86_64/regs.h: #define guest_kernel_mode(v, r)   \     (ring_3(r) && ((v)->arch.flags &