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Commit fa8f949d authored by Adrian Hunter's avatar Adrian Hunter Committed by Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
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perf intel-pt: Add VM Time Correlation to decoder



VM Time Correlation means determining if each TSC packet belongs to a VM
Guest or the Host. When the trace is "in context" that is indicated by
the NR flag in the PIP packet. However, when tracing kernel-only,
userspace only, or using address filters, the trace can be "out of context"
in which case timing packets are produced but not PIP packets.

Nevertheless, it is very unlikely the VM Guest timestamps will be in
the same range as the Host timestamps. Host time ranges are established
by a starting side-band event timestamp, and subsequently by the buffer
timestamp, written when the buffer is copied to the perf.data file.

This patch supports updating the VM Guest timestamp packets, assuming an
unchanging (during perf record) VMX TSC Offset and no VMX TSC scaling.

Furthermore, it is possible to determine what the VMX TSC Offset is,
although not necessarily at the start. The dry-run option lets that
information be determined so that the user can pass it to a subsequent
run. For more detail, refer to the example in the Intel PT documentation
in a subsequent patch.

VM Time Correlation is also performed on the TSC value in PEBs-via-PT
records.

Signed-off-by: default avatarAdrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210430070309.17624-12-adrian.hunter@intel.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
parent 31c7e27d
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