From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from e28smtp01.in.ibm.com (e28smtp01.in.ibm.com [122.248.162.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "e28smtp01.in.ibm.com", Issuer "GeoTrust SSL CA" (not verified)) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 819612C00A9 for ; Wed, 22 May 2013 16:23:14 +1000 (EST) Received: from /spool/local by e28smtp01.in.ibm.com with IBM ESMTP SMTP Gateway: Authorized Use Only! Violators will be prosecuted for from ; Wed, 22 May 2013 11:47:22 +0530 Received: from d28relay04.in.ibm.com (d28relay04.in.ibm.com [9.184.220.61]) by d28dlp02.in.ibm.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 560BF3940063 for ; Wed, 22 May 2013 11:53:10 +0530 (IST) Received: from d28av01.in.ibm.com (d28av01.in.ibm.com [9.184.220.63]) by d28relay04.in.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v10.0) with ESMTP id r4M6N3dn60620898 for ; Wed, 22 May 2013 11:53:03 +0530 Received: from d28av01.in.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d28av01.in.ibm.com (8.14.4/8.13.1/NCO v10.0 AVout) with ESMTP id r4M6N6kn011750 for ; Wed, 22 May 2013 06:23:07 GMT From: Anshuman Khandual To: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH 1/5] perf: New conditional branch filter criteria in branch stack sampling Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 11:52:37 +0530 Message-Id: <1369203761-12649-2-git-send-email-khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <1369203761-12649-1-git-send-email-khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com> References: <1369203761-12649-1-git-send-email-khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: mikey@neuling.org, ak@linux.intel.com, peterz@infradead.org, eranian@google.com, mingo@kernel.org List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , POWER8 PMU based BHRB supports filtering for conditional branches. This patch introduces new branch filter PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_COND which will extend the existing perf ABI. Other architectures can provide this functionality with either HW filtering support (if present) or with SW filtering of instructions. Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual --- include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h b/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h index fb104e5..cb0de86 100644 --- a/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h +++ b/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h @@ -157,8 +157,9 @@ enum perf_branch_sample_type { PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_ANY_CALL = 1U << 4, /* any call branch */ PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_ANY_RETURN = 1U << 5, /* any return branch */ PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_IND_CALL = 1U << 6, /* indirect calls */ + PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_COND = 1U << 7, /* conditional branches */ - PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_MAX = 1U << 7, /* non-ABI */ + PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_MAX = 1U << 8, /* non-ABI */ }; #define PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_PLM_ALL \ -- 1.7.11.7