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From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
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On Wed, Feb 02, 2022 at 02:35:45PM -0800, Jim Mattson wrote:
> 3) TDX is going to pull the rug out from under us anyway. When the TDX
> module usurps control of the PMU, any active host counters are going
> to stop counting. We are going to need a way of telling the host perf
> subsystem what's happening, or other host perf clients are going to
> get bogus data.

That's not acceptible behaviour. I'm all for unilaterally killing any
guest that does this.