[PATCH] KVM: add VM-exit profiling
authorIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Thu, 11 Jan 2007 07:15:38 +0000 (23:15 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.osdl.org>
Fri, 12 Jan 2007 02:18:21 +0000 (18:18 -0800)
commit07031e14c1127fc7e1a5b98dfcc59f434e025104
treebe4f545e674c529abb0f51c8b87e1f7137c9acb6
parente3881a6816b45668df60a426e5c3431ece1539a7
[PATCH] KVM: add VM-exit profiling

This adds the profile=kvm boot option, which enables KVM to profile VM
exits.

Use: "readprofile -m ./System.map | sort -n" to see the resulting
output:

   [...]
   18246 serial_out                               148.3415
   18945 native_flush_tlb                         378.9000
   23618 serial_in                                212.7748
   29279 __spin_unlock_irq                        622.9574
   43447 native_apic_write                        2068.9048
   52702 enable_8259A_irq                         742.2817
   54250 vgacon_scroll                             89.3740
   67394 ide_inb                                  6126.7273
   79514 copy_page_range                           98.1654
   84868 do_wp_page                                86.6000
  140266 pit_read                                 783.6089
  151436 ide_outb                                 25239.3333
  152668 native_io_delay                          21809.7143
  174783 mask_and_ack_8259A                       783.7803
  362404 native_set_pte_at                        36240.4000
 1688747 total                                      0.5009

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
drivers/kvm/svm.c
drivers/kvm/vmx.c
include/linux/profile.h
kernel/profile.c