perf/documentation: Add description for conditional branch filter

Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: mpe@ellerman.id.au
Cc: benh@kernel.crashing.org
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1400743210-32289-4-git-send-email-khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Anshuman Khandual 2014-05-22 12:50:10 +05:30 committed by Ingo Molnar
parent 37548914fb
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@ -184,9 +184,10 @@ following filters are defined:
- in_tx: only when the target is in a hardware transaction
- no_tx: only when the target is not in a hardware transaction
- abort_tx: only when the target is a hardware transaction abort
- cond: conditional branches
+
The option requires at least one branch type among any, any_call, any_ret, ind_call.
The option requires at least one branch type among any, any_call, any_ret, ind_call, cond.
The privilege levels may be omitted, in which case, the privilege levels of the associated
event are applied to the branch filter. Both kernel (k) and hypervisor (hv) privilege
levels are subject to permissions. When sampling on multiple events, branch stack sampling