On Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 10:51:38AM -0800, Sean Christopherson wrote: > On Fri, Jan 15, 2021, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > I'm asking about ucode/hardare. Is the "guest pebs buffer write -> PEBS > > > PMI" > > > guaranteed to be atomic? > > > > Of course not. > > So there's still a window where the guest could observe the bad counter index, > correct?
Yes. But with single record PEBS it doesn't really matter with normal perfmon drivers. -Andi
