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* [PATCH 00/15] perf, x86: Haswell LBR call stack support
@ 2013-12-11  7:10 Yan, Zheng
  2013-12-11  7:10 ` [PATCH 01/15] perf, x86: Reduce lbr_sel_map size Yan, Zheng
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From: Yan, Zheng @ 2013-12-11  7:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel; +Cc: a.p.zijlstra, eranian, andi, Yan, Zheng

From: "Yan, Zheng" <zheng.z.yan@intel.com>

Haswell has a new feature that utilizes the existing Last Branch Record
facility to record call chains. When the feature is enabled, function
call will be collected as normal, but as return instructions are executed
the last captured branch record is popped from the on-chip LBR registers.
The LBR call stack facility can help perf to get call chains of progam
without frame pointer. This feature can be disabled/enabled through an
attribute file in the cpu pmu sysfs directory.

The LBR call stack has following known limitations
 - Zero length calls are not filtered out by hardware
 - Exception handing such as setjmp/longjmp will have calls/returns not
   match
 - Pushing different return address onto the stack will have calls/returns
   not match
 - If callstack is deeper than the LBR, only the last entries are captured

Change since previous version
 - split change into more patches
 - introduce context switch callback and use it to flush LBR
 - use the context switch callback to save/restore LBR
 - dynamic allocate memory area for storing LBR stack, always switch the
   memory area during context switch
 - disable this feature by default

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2013-12-11  7:10 [PATCH 00/15] perf, x86: Haswell LBR call stack support Yan, Zheng
2013-12-11  7:10 ` [PATCH 01/15] perf, x86: Reduce lbr_sel_map size Yan, Zheng
2013-12-11  7:10 ` [PATCH 02/15] perf, x86: Basic Haswell LBR call stack support Yan, Zheng
2013-12-11  7:10 ` [PATCH 03/15] perf, core: Introduce pmu context switch callback Yan, Zheng
2013-12-11  7:10 ` [PATCH 04/15] perf, x86: Use context switch callback to flush LBR stack Yan, Zheng
2013-12-17 16:10   ` Ingo Molnar
2013-12-11  7:10 ` [PATCH 05/15] perf, core: Optimize context switch callback invoking Yan, Zheng
2013-12-11  7:10 ` [PATCH 06/15] perf, core: PMU specific data for perf task context Yan, Zheng
2013-12-11  7:10 ` [PATCH 07/15] perf, core: Always swtich pmu specific data during context switch Yan, Zheng
2013-12-11  7:10 ` [PATCH 08/15] perf, x86: Allocate memory for saving LBR stack Yan, Zheng
2013-12-11  7:10 ` [PATCH 09/15] perf: Track system-wide LBR users and LBR callstack users Yan, Zheng
2013-12-11  7:10 ` [PATCH 10/15] perf, x86: Save/resotre LBR stack during context switch Yan, Zheng
2013-12-11  7:10 ` [PATCH 11/15] perf, core: Simplify need branch stack check Yan, Zheng
2013-12-11  7:10 ` [PATCH 12/15] perf, core: Pass perf_sample_data to perf_callchain() Yan, Zheng
2013-12-11  7:10 ` [PATCH 13/15] perf, x86: Use LBR call stack to get user callchain Yan, Zheng
2013-12-11  7:10 ` [PATCH 14/15] perf, x86: Enable LBR callstack when recording callchain Yan, Zheng
2013-12-11  7:11 ` [PATCH 15/15] perf, x86: Discard zero length call entries in LBR call stack Yan, Zheng

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