[PATCH 1/2] perf: Add more generic branch types

[Anshuman Khandual]

On 2/24/22 11:21 AM, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
> 
> 
> On 2/2/22 5:28 PM, Mark Rutland wrote:
>> Hi Anshuman,
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 28, 2022 at 11:14:12AM +0530, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
>>> This expands generic branch type classification by adding some more entries
>>> , that can still be represented with the existing 4 bit 'type' field. While
>>> here this also updates the x86 implementation with these new branch types.
>> It looks like there's some whitespace damage here.
>>
>> >From a quick scan of the below, I think the "exception return" and "IRQ
>> exception" types are somewhat generic, and could be added now (aside from any
>> bikeshedding over names), but:
> 
> Hi Mark,
> 
> I have sent a patch adding just PERF_BR_ERET and PERF_BR_IRQ which are generic
> enough to be included now. The 'type' field still got 3 more places for future
> use. Hence we should try and include two more branch types, before adding the

The two additional generic branch types could be

- PERF_BR_SERROR (possible arm64 equivalent for x86 MCE)
- PERF_BR_NO_TX  (only missing TX related branch type in perf_branch_entry)

perf_branch_entry.[in_tx | abort] are already available. Also PERF_BR_NO_TX
could be used right away on x86 platform, via X86_BR_NO_TX.

> last entry for ABI expansion (e.g PERF_BR_EXTENDED).

PERF_BR_EXTENDED could help expand into another 4 bits 'new_type' field
following the existing 4 bits 'type' field. Does this sound feasible ?

enum {
        PERF_BR_UNKNOWN         = 0,    /* unknown */
        PERF_BR_COND            = 1,    /* conditional */
        PERF_BR_UNCOND          = 2,    /* unconditional  */
        PERF_BR_IND             = 3,    /* indirect */
        PERF_BR_CALL            = 4,    /* function call */
        PERF_BR_IND_CALL        = 5,    /* indirect function call */
        PERF_BR_RET             = 6,    /* function return */
        PERF_BR_SYSCALL         = 7,    /* syscall */
        PERF_BR_SYSRET          = 8,    /* syscall return */
        PERF_BR_COND_CALL       = 9,    /* conditional function call */
        PERF_BR_COND_RET        = 10,   /* conditional function return */
        PERF_BR_ERET            = 11,   /* exception return */
        PERF_BR_IRQ             = 12,   /* irq */
        PERF_BR_SERROR          = 13,   /* System error */
        PERF_BR_NO_TX           = 14,   /* No transaction */
	PERF_BR_EXTEND_ABI	= 15 	/* Extended ABI */
        PERF_BR_MAX,
};

enum {
       PERF_BR_NEW_FAULT_ALGN          = 0,    /* Alignment fault */
       PERF_BR_NEW_FAULT_DATA          = 1,    /* Data fault */
       PERF_BR_NEW_FAULT_INST          = 2,    /* Inst fault */
       PERF_BR_NEW_ARCH_1              = 3,    /* Architecture specific */
       PERF_BR_NEW_ARCH_2              = 4,    /* Architecture specific */
       PERF_BR_NEW_ARCH_3              = 5,    /* Architecture specific */
       PERF_BR_NEW_ARCH_4              = 6,    /* Architecture specific */
       PERF_BR_NEW_ARCH_5              = 7,    /* Architecture specific */
       PERF_BR_NEW_MAX,
};

#ifdef CONFIG_ARM64
#define PERF_BR_FIQ            PERF_BR_NEW_ARCH_1
#define PERF_BR_DEBUG_HALT     PERF_BR_NEW_ARCH_2
#define PERF_BR_DEBUG_EXIT     PERF_BR_NEW_ARCH_3
#define PERF_BR_DEBUG_INST     PERF_BR_NEW_ARCH_4
#define PERF_BR_DEBUG_DATA     PERF_BR_NEW_ARCH_5
#endif

User space perf tool will look into perf_branch_entry.new_type, only
when (perf_branch_entry.type == PERF_BR_EXTEND_ABI). Older perf tool
on a newer kernel will be safe via old PERF_BR_MAX, and will ignore
[PERF_BR_ERET - PERF_BR_EXTEND_ABI] values possibly with an warning.

- Anshuman