Commit 3e702ff6 authored by Stephane Eranian's avatar Stephane Eranian Committed by Ingo Molnar

perf/x86: Add LBR software filter support for Intel CPUs

This patch adds an internal sofware filter to complement
the (optional) LBR hardware filter.

The software filter is necessary:

 - as a substitute when there is no HW LBR filter (e.g., Atom, Core)
 - to complement HW LBR filter in case of errata (e.g., Nehalem/Westmere)
 - to provide finer grain filtering (e.g., all processors)

Sometimes the LBR HW filter cannot distinguish between two types
of branches. For instance, to capture syscall as CALLS, it is necessary
to enable the LBR_FAR filter which will also capture JMP instructions.
Thus, a second pass is necessary to filter those out, this is what the
SW filter can do.

The SW filter is built on top of the internal x86 disassembler. It
is a best effort filter especially for user level code. It is subject
to the availability of the text page of the program.

The SW filter is enabled on all Intel processors. It is bypassed
when the user is capturing all branches at all priv levels.
Signed-off-by: default avatarStephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1328826068-11713-9-git-send-email-eranian@google.comSigned-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
parent 60ce0fbd
......@@ -132,6 +132,7 @@ struct cpu_hw_events {
struct perf_branch_stack lbr_stack;
struct perf_branch_entry lbr_entries[MAX_LBR_ENTRIES];
struct er_account *lbr_sel;
u64 br_sel;
/*
* Intel host/guest exclude bits
......@@ -459,6 +460,15 @@ extern struct event_constraint emptyconstraint;
extern struct event_constraint unconstrained;
static inline bool kernel_ip(unsigned long ip)
{
#ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
return ip > PAGE_OFFSET;
#else
return (long)ip < 0;
#endif
}
#ifdef CONFIG_CPU_SUP_AMD
int amd_pmu_init(void);
......
......@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
#include <linux/slab.h>
#include <asm/perf_event.h>
#include <asm/insn.h>
#include "perf_event.h"
......@@ -469,17 +470,6 @@ void intel_pmu_pebs_disable_all(void)
wrmsrl(MSR_IA32_PEBS_ENABLE, 0);
}
#include <asm/insn.h>
static inline bool kernel_ip(unsigned long ip)
{
#ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
return ip > PAGE_OFFSET;
#else
return (long)ip < 0;
#endif
}
static int intel_pmu_pebs_fixup_ip(struct pt_regs *regs)
{
struct cpu_hw_events *cpuc = &__get_cpu_var(cpu_hw_events);
......
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