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Sandipan Das authored
With branch fusion and other optimizations, branch sampling hardware in some processors can report a branch from address that points to an instruction preceding the actual branch by several bytes. In such cases, the classifier cannot determine the branch type which leads to failures such as with the recently added test from commit b55878c9 ("perf test: Add test for branch stack sampling"). Branch information is also easier to consume and annotate if branch from addresses always point to branch instructions. Add a new variant of the branch classifier that can account for instruction fusion. If fusion is expected and the current branch from address does not point to a branch instruction, it attempts to find the first branch within the next (MAX_INSN_SIZE - 1) bytes and if found, additionally provides the offset between the reported branch from address and the address of the expected branch instruction. Signed-off-by: Sandipan Das <sandipan.das@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/b6bb0abaa8a54c0b6d716344700ee11a1793d709.1660211399.git.sandipan.das@amd.com
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