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 <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
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Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>

diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h b/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h
index 309211b3eb672f9449a0fc266ed643ac881196d3..c4622f1ce0463be100bccd63d7ccae970514546f 100644 (file)
--- a/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h
+++ b/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,
 };