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perf: add new PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_IND_JUMP branch sample type

This patch adds a new branch_sample_type flag to enable
filtering branch sampling to indirect jumps. The support
is subject to hardware or kernel software support on each
architecture.

Filtering on indirect jump is useful to study the targets
of the jump.

Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: acme@redhat.com
Cc: dsahern@gmail.com
Cc: jolsa@redhat.com
Cc: kan.liang@intel.com
Cc: namhyung@kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1431637800-31061-2-git-send-email-eranian@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Stephane Eranian 10 سال پیش
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      include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h

+ 2 - 0
include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h

@@ -167,6 +167,7 @@ enum perf_branch_sample_type_shift {
 	PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_COND_SHIFT		= 10, /* conditional branches */
 
 	PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_CALL_STACK_SHIFT	= 11, /* call/ret stack */
+	PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_IND_JUMP_SHIFT	= 12, /* indirect jumps */
 
 	PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_MAX_SHIFT		/* non-ABI */
 };
@@ -186,6 +187,7 @@ enum perf_branch_sample_type {
 	PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_COND		= 1U << PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_COND_SHIFT,
 
 	PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_CALL_STACK	= 1U << PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_CALL_STACK_SHIFT,
+	PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_IND_JUMP	= 1U << PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_IND_JUMP_SHIFT,
 
 	PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_MAX		= 1U << PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_MAX_SHIFT,
 };