[PATCH V6 3/8] perf: Capture branch privilege information

Anshuman Khandual anshuman.khandual at arm.com
Thu Jun 9 20:50:56 PDT 2022


Platforms like arm64 could capture privilege level information for all the
branch records. Hence this adds a new element in the struct branch_entry to
record the privilege level information, which could be requested through a
new event.attr.branch_sample_type based flag PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_PRIV_SAVE.
This flag helps user choose whether privilege information is captured.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz at infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo at redhat.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme at kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland at arm.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin at linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa at redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung at kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx at linutronix.de>
Cc: Will Deacon <will at kernel.org>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-perf-users at vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: James Clark <james.clark at arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual at arm.com>
---
 include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h | 14 +++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h b/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h
index d29280adc3c4..193dba2ecdc1 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h
@@ -204,6 +204,8 @@ enum perf_branch_sample_type_shift {
 
 	PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_HW_INDEX_SHIFT	= 17, /* save low level index of raw branch records */
 
+	PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_PRIV_SAVE_SHIFT	= 18, /* save privilege mode */
+
 	PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_MAX_SHIFT		/* non-ABI */
 };
 
@@ -233,6 +235,8 @@ enum perf_branch_sample_type {
 
 	PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_HW_INDEX	= 1U << PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_HW_INDEX_SHIFT,
 
+	PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_PRIV_SAVE	= 1U << PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_PRIV_SAVE_SHIFT,
+
 	PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_MAX		= 1U << PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_MAX_SHIFT,
 };
 
@@ -271,6 +275,13 @@ enum {
 	PERF_BR_NEW_MAX,
 };
 
+enum {
+	PERF_BR_PRIV_UNKNOWN	= 0,
+	PERF_BR_PRIV_USER	= 1,
+	PERF_BR_PRIV_KERNEL	= 2,
+	PERF_BR_PRIV_HV		= 3,
+};
+
 #define PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_PLM_ALL \
 	(PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_USER|\
 	 PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_KERNEL|\
@@ -1386,7 +1397,8 @@ struct perf_branch_entry {
 		cycles:16,  /* cycle count to last branch */
 		type:4,     /* branch type */
 		new_type:4, /* additional branch type */
-		reserved:36;
+		priv:3,     /* privilege level */
+		reserved:33;
 };
 
 union perf_sample_weight {
-- 
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