Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V8 1/2] arm: Add an option to turn on/off vPMU support

2016-10-26 Thread Andrew Jones
On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 02:28:20AM -0400, Wei Huang wrote: > This patch adds a pmu=[on/off] option to enable/disable vPMU support > in guest vCPU. It allows virt tools, such as libvirt, to determine the > exsitence of vPMU and configure it. Note this option is only available > for cortex-a57/cortex

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH V8 1/2] arm: Add an option to turn on/off vPMU support

2016-10-25 Thread Wei Huang
This patch adds a pmu=[on/off] option to enable/disable vPMU support in guest vCPU. It allows virt tools, such as libvirt, to determine the exsitence of vPMU and configure it. Note this option is only available for cortex-a57/cortex-53/ host CPUs, but unavailable on ARMv7 and other processors. Also