Re: [RFC PATCH] perf/kvm: Guest Symbol Resolution for powerpc

2015-06-17 Thread Hemant Kumar
Hi Arnaldo, On 06/16/2015 09:08 PM, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote: Em Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 08:20:53AM +0530, Hemant Kumar escreveu: perf kvm {record|report} is used to record and report the performance profile of any workload on a guest. From the host, we can collect guest kernel statistics

Re: [PATCH 0/2] KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Dynamic micro-threading/split-core

2015-06-17 Thread Laurent Vivier
[I resend my message because MLs have refused the first one in HTML] On 28/05/2015 07:17, Paul Mackerras wrote: This patch series provides a way to use more of the capacity of each processor core when running guests configured with threads=1, 2 or 4 on a POWER8 host with HV KVM, without having

[PATCH 0/3] kvmtool: fixes for PowerPC

2015-06-17 Thread Andre Przywara
Hello, some patches to fix at least the build of the new kvmtool for PowerPC. I could only compile test it so far, so I'd be grateful if people more familiar with that architecture can have a look and maybe even test it on actual machines. Cheers, Andre. Andre Przywara (3): powerpc: implement

[PATCH 2/3] powerpc: use default endianness for converting guest/init

2015-06-17 Thread Andre Przywara
For converting the guest/init binary into an object file, we call the linker binary, setting the endianness to big endian explicitly when compiling kvmtool for powerpc. This breaks if the compiler is actually targetting little endian (which is true for the Debian port, for instance). Remove the

[PATCH 3/3] powerpc: add hvcall.h header from Linux

2015-06-17 Thread Andre Przywara
The powerpc code uses some PAPR hypercalls, of which we need the hypercall number. Copy the macro definition parts from the kernel's (private) hvcall.h file and remove the extra tricks formerly used to be able to include this header file directly. Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara

Re: [PATCH 3/3] powerpc: add hvcall.h header from Linux

2015-06-17 Thread Will Deacon
On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 10:43:50AM +0100, Andre Przywara wrote: The powerpc code uses some PAPR hypercalls, of which we need the hypercall number. Copy the macro definition parts from the kernel's (private) hvcall.h file and remove the extra tricks formerly used to be able to include this