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authorAnshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>2022-12-05 12:14:43 +0530
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2022-12-14 11:16:12 -0300
commit955f6def5590ce6ca11a1c1ced0d2d1c95421059 (patch)
tree853043217626705de22961775c7d5d6ff3edab02 /tools/perf
parent3c97d25ceb75fd3e660ba9fcd4c630d0b057a5a2 (diff)
perf record: Add remaining branch filters: "no_cycles", "no_flags" & "hw_index"
This adds all remaining branch filters i.e "no_cycles", "no_flags" and "hw_index". While here, also updates the documentation. Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com> Cc: James Clark <james.clark@arm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20221205064443.533587-1-anshuman.khandual@arm.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/perf')
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt5
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/util/parse-branch-options.c3
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt
index 9ea6d44aca58..5f9fa07b3dde 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt
@@ -388,6 +388,7 @@ following filters are defined:
- any_call: any function call or system call
- any_ret: any function return or system call return
- ind_call: any indirect branch
+ - ind_jmp: any indirect jump
- call: direct calls, including far (to/from kernel) calls
- u: only when the branch target is at the user level
- k: only when the branch target is in the kernel
@@ -396,6 +397,10 @@ following filters are defined:
- 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
+ - call_stack: save call stack
+ - no_flags: don't save branch flags e.g prediction, misprediction etc
+ - no_cycles: don't save branch cycles
+ - hw_index: save branch hardware index
- save_type: save branch type during sampling in case binary is not available later
For the platforms with Intel Arch LBR support (12th-Gen+ client or
4th-Gen Xeon+ server), the save branch type is unconditionally enabled
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/parse-branch-options.c b/tools/perf/util/parse-branch-options.c
index 31faf2bb49ff..fd67d204d720 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/parse-branch-options.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/parse-branch-options.c
@@ -30,8 +30,11 @@ static const struct branch_mode branch_modes[] = {
BRANCH_OPT("cond", PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_COND),
BRANCH_OPT("ind_jmp", PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_IND_JUMP),
BRANCH_OPT("call", PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_CALL),
+ BRANCH_OPT("no_flags", PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_NO_FLAGS),
+ BRANCH_OPT("no_cycles", PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_NO_CYCLES),
BRANCH_OPT("save_type", PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_TYPE_SAVE),
BRANCH_OPT("stack", PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_CALL_STACK),
+ BRANCH_OPT("hw_index", PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_HW_INDEX),
BRANCH_OPT("priv", PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_PRIV_SAVE),
BRANCH_END
};