Commit bac52139 authored by Anshuman Khandual's avatar Anshuman Khandual Committed by Ingo Molnar

perf: Add new conditional branch filter 'PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_COND'

This patch introduces new branch filter PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_COND which
will extend the existing perf ABI. This will filter branches which are
conditional. Various architectures can provide this functionality either
with HW filtering support (if present) or with SW filtering of captured
branch instructions.
Signed-off-by: default avatarAnshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarStephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: mpe@ellerman.id.au
Cc: benh@kernel.crashing.org
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1400743210-32289-1-git-send-email-khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.comSigned-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
parent 40814f68
......@@ -163,8 +163,9 @@ enum perf_branch_sample_type {
PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_ABORT_TX = 1U << 7, /* transaction aborts */
PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_IN_TX = 1U << 8, /* in transaction */
PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_NO_TX = 1U << 9, /* not in transaction */
PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_COND = 1U << 10, /* conditional branches */
PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_MAX = 1U << 10, /* non-ABI */
PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_MAX = 1U << 11, /* non-ABI */
};
#define PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_PLM_ALL \
......
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