linux/tools
Roberto Agostino Vitillo bdfebd848f perf record: Add support for sampling taken branch
This patch adds a new option to enable taken branch stack
sampling, i.e., leverage the PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_STACK feature
of perf_events.

There is a new option to active this mode: -b.
It is possible to pass a set of filters to select the type of
branches to sample.

The following filters are available:

 - any : any type of branches
 - any_call : any function call or system call
 - any_ret : any function return or system call return
 - any_ind : any indirect branch
 - u:  only when the branch target is at the user level
 - k: only when the branch target is in the kernel
 - hv: only when the branch target is in the hypervisor

Filters can be combined by passing a comma separated list
to the option:

$ perf record -b any_call,u -e cycles:u branchy

Signed-off-by: Roberto Agostino Vitillo <ravitillo@lbl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: acme@redhat.com
Cc: robert.richter@amd.com
Cc: ming.m.lin@intel.com
Cc: andi@firstfloor.org
Cc: asharma@fb.com
Cc: vweaver1@eecs.utk.edu
Cc: khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: dsahern@gmail.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1328826068-11713-13-git-send-email-eranian@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2012-03-09 08:26:05 +01:00
..
firewire tools/firewire: nosy-dump: increment program version 2010-07-27 11:04:12 +02:00
hv Staging: hv: move hyperv code out of staging directory 2011-10-10 22:52:55 -06:00
lguest lguest: move the lguest tool to the tools directory 2012-01-12 15:44:47 +10:30
nfsd NFSD: Added fault injection script 2011-11-07 21:10:47 -05:00
perf perf record: Add support for sampling taken branch 2012-03-09 08:26:05 +01:00
power Merge branch 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux 2012-01-18 15:51:48 -08:00
slub Merge branches 'slab/next' and 'slub/partial' into slab/for-linus 2011-10-26 18:09:12 +03:00
testing Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-ktest 2012-01-16 17:53:27 -08:00
usb USB: ffs-test: fix header path 2011-02-28 19:27:12 -08:00
virtio virtio: rename virtqueue_add_buf_gfp to virtqueue_add_buf 2012-01-12 15:44:42 +10:30