While running kvm_stat using tracepoint on ARM64 hardware (e.g. "kvm_stat
-1 -t"), the initial values of some kvm_userspace_exit counters were found
to be very suspecious. For instance the tracing tool showed that S390_TSCH
was called many times on ARM64 machine, which apparently was wrong.
This patch adds RESET ioctl support for perf monitoring. Before calling
ioctl to enable a perf event, this patch resets the counter first. With
this patch, the init counter values become correct on ARM64 hardware.
Example:
==== before patch ====
kvm_userspace_exit(S390_SIEIC) 1426 0
kvm_userspace_exit(S390_TSCH) 339 0
==== after patch ====
kvm_userspace_exit(S390_SIEIC) 0 0
kvm_userspace_exit(S390_TSCH) 0 0
Signed-off-by: Wei Huang <wei@redhat.com>
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