linux/arch/x86
Andi Kleen b16a5b52eb perf/x86: Add option to disable reading branch flags/cycles
With LBRv5 reading the extra LBR flags like mispredict, TSX, cycles is
not free anymore, as it has moved to a separate MSR.

For callstack mode we don't need any of this information; so we can
avoid the unnecessary MSR read. Add flags to the perf interface where
perf record can request not collecting this information.

Add branch_sample_type flags for CYCLES and FLAGS. It's a bit unusual
for branch_sample_types to be negative (disable), not positive (enable),
but since the legacy ABI reported the flags we need some form of
explicit disabling to avoid breaking the ABI.

After we have the flags the x86 perf code can keep track if any users
need the flags. If noone needs it the information is not collected.

This cuts down the cost of LBR callstack on Skylake significantly.
Profiling a kernel build with LBR call stack the average run time of
the PMI handler drops by 43%.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Cc: acme@kernel.org
Cc: jolsa@kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1445366797-30894-2-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-11-23 09:58:25 +01:00
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boot kasan: move KASAN_SANITIZE in arch/x86/boot/Makefile 2015-11-05 19:34:48 -08:00
configs Merge branch 'drm-next' of git://people.freedesktop.org/~airlied/linux 2015-09-04 15:49:32 -07:00
crypto Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2015-11-04 09:11:12 -08:00
entry mm: mlock: add new mlock system call 2015-11-05 19:34:48 -08:00
ia32 Merge branch 'x86-headers-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2015-11-03 21:05:40 -08:00
include x86: Add an inlined __copy_from_user_nmi() variant 2015-11-23 09:58:24 +01:00
kernel perf/x86: Add option to disable reading branch flags/cycles 2015-11-23 09:58:25 +01:00
kvm Four changes: 2015-11-12 14:34:06 -08:00
lguest genirq: Remove irq argument from irq flow handlers 2015-09-16 15:47:51 +02:00
lib Linux 4.3-rc1 2015-09-13 11:25:35 +02:00
math-emu Merge branch 'x86-headers-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2015-11-03 21:05:40 -08:00
mm Merge branch 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2015-11-22 12:00:12 -08:00
net ebpf: migrate bpf_prog's flags to bitfield 2015-10-03 05:02:39 -07:00
oprofile
pci PCI changes for the v4.4 merge window: 2015-11-06 11:29:53 -08:00
platform Merge branch 'x86-platform-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2015-11-03 21:33:18 -08:00
power x86/ldt: Make modify_ldt synchronous 2015-07-31 10:23:23 +02:00
purgatory
ras x86/ras/mce_amd_inj: Inject bank 4 errors on the NBC 2015-10-12 16:15:48 +02:00
realmode
tools
um Merge branch 'for-linus-4.4-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rw/uml 2015-11-10 16:33:37 -08:00
video
xen xen: features for 4.4-rc0 2015-11-04 17:32:42 -08:00
.gitignore
Kbuild x86/asm/entry, x86/vdso: Move the vDSO code to arch/x86/entry/vdso/ 2015-06-03 18:51:37 +02:00
Kconfig Merge branch 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2015-11-03 18:59:10 -08:00
Kconfig.cpu x86/Kconfig/cpus: Fix/complete CPU type help texts 2015-10-21 11:12:56 +02:00
Kconfig.debug x86: don't make DEBUG_WX default to 'y' even with DEBUG_RODATA 2015-11-06 09:12:41 -08:00
Makefile Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2015-11-04 09:11:12 -08:00
Makefile_32.cpu
Makefile.um