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    perf cs-etm: Continuously record last branch · f1410028
    Leo Yan authored
    Every time synthesize instruction sample, the last branch recording will
    be reset.  This is fine if the instruction period is big enough, for
    example if use the option '--itrace=i100000', the last branch array is
    reset for every sample with 100000 instructions per period; before
    generate the next instruction sample, there has the sufficient packets
    coming to fill the last branch array.
    
    On the other hand, if set a very small period, the packets will be
    significantly reduced between two continuous instruction samples, thus
    the last branch array is almost empty for new instruction sample by
    frequently resetting.
    
    To allow the last branches to work properly for any instruction periods,
    this patch avoids to reset the last branch for every instruction sample
    and only reset it when flush the trace data.  The last branches will be
    reset only for two cases, one is for trace starting, another case is for
    discontinuous trace; other cases can keep recording last branches for
    continuous instruction samples.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLeo Yan <leo.yan@linaro.org>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarMathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarMike Leach <mike.leach@linaro.org>
    Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
    Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
    Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
    Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
    Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
    Cc: Robert Walker <robert.walker@arm.com>
    Cc: Suzuki Poulouse <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>
    Cc: coresight ml <coresight@lists.linaro.org>
    Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
    Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200219021811.20067-3-leo.yan@linaro.orgSigned-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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