Re: [PATCH v5] arm/kvm: Enable support for KVM_ARM_VCPU_PMU_V3_FILTER

[Eric Auger]

Hi Sebastian,

On 1/17/24 17:29, Sebastian Ott wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Jan 2024, Eric Auger wrote:
>> On 1/15/24 09:01, Shaoqin Huang wrote:
>>> +    /*
>>> +     * The filter only needs to be initialized through one vcpu
>>> ioctl and it
>>> +     * will affect all other vcpu in the vm.
>>> +     */
>>> +    if (pmu_filter_init) {
>> I think I commented on that on the v4. Maybe I missed your reply. You
>> sure you don't need to call it for each vcpu?
> 
> From (kernel) commit d7eec2360e3 ("KVM: arm64: Add PMU event filtering
> infrastructure"):
>   Note that although the ioctl is per-vcpu, the map of allowed events is
>   global to the VM (it can be setup from any vcpu until the vcpu PMU is
>   initialized).
Ah OK. I forgot that specificity.

Thanks!

Eric
> 
> Sebastian
>