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authorGravatar Yan, Zheng <zheng.z.yan@intel.com> 2014-11-04 21:56:00 -0500
committerGravatar Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> 2015-02-18 17:16:04 +0100
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perf/x86/intel: Add basic Haswell LBR call stack support
Haswell has a new feature that utilizes the existing LBR facility to record call chains. To enable this feature, bits (JCC, NEAR_IND_JMP, NEAR_REL_JMP, FAR_BRANCH, EN_CALLSTACK) in LBR_SELECT must be set to 1, bits (NEAR_REL_CALL, NEAR-IND_CALL, NEAR_RET) must be cleared. Due to a hardware bug of Haswell, this feature doesn't work well with FREEZE_LBRS_ON_PMI. When the call stack feature is enabled, the LBR stack will capture unfiltered call data normally, but as return instructions are executed, the last captured branch record is flushed from the on-chip registers in a last-in first-out (LIFO) manner. Thus, branch information relative to leaf functions will not be captured, while preserving the call stack information of the main line execution path. This patch defines a separate lbr_sel map for Haswell. The map contains a new entry for the call stack feature. Signed-off-by: Yan, Zheng <zheng.z.yan@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> Cc: eranian@google.com Cc: jolsa@redhat.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1415156173-10035-5-git-send-email-kan.liang@intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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