[PATCH V4 02/10] perf: Add system error and not in transaction branch types

Anshuman Khandual anshuman.khandual at arm.com
Mon Mar 14 22:35:08 PDT 2022


This expands generic branch type classification by adding two more entries
there in i.e system error and not in transaction. This also updates the x86
implementation to process X86_BR_NO_TX records as appropriate. This changes
branch types reported to user space on x86 platform but it should not be a
problem. The possible scenarios and impacts are enumerated here.

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| kernel | perf tool |                     Impact                        |
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|   old  |    old    |  Works as before                                  |
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|   old  |    new    |  PERF_BR_UNKNOWN is processed                     |
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|   new  |    old    |  PERF_BR_NO_TX are blocked via old PERF_BR_MAX    |
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|   new  |    new    |  NO_TX are recognized                             |
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When PERF_BR_NO_TX is blocked via old PERF_BR_MAX (new kernel with old perf
tool) the user space might throw up an warning complaining about an
unrecognized branch types being reported, but it's expected. PERF_BR_SERROR
& PERF_BR_NO_TX branch types will be used for BRBE implementation on arm64
platform.

PERF_BR_NO_TX complements 'abort' and 'in_tx' elements in perf_branch_entry
which represent other transaction states for a given branch record. Because
this completes the transaction state classification.

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
Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual at arm.com>
---
 arch/x86/events/intel/lbr.c     | 2 +-
 include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h | 2 ++
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/events/intel/lbr.c b/arch/x86/events/intel/lbr.c
index fe1742c4ca49..30dcd18936d5 100644
--- a/arch/x86/events/intel/lbr.c
+++ b/arch/x86/events/intel/lbr.c
@@ -1336,7 +1336,7 @@ static int branch_map[X86_BR_TYPE_MAP_MAX] = {
 	PERF_BR_IND_CALL,	/* X86_BR_IND_CALL */
 	PERF_BR_UNKNOWN,	/* X86_BR_ABORT */
 	PERF_BR_UNKNOWN,	/* X86_BR_IN_TX */
-	PERF_BR_UNKNOWN,	/* X86_BR_NO_TX */
+	PERF_BR_NO_TX,		/* X86_BR_NO_TX */
 	PERF_BR_CALL,		/* X86_BR_ZERO_CALL */
 	PERF_BR_UNKNOWN,	/* X86_BR_CALL_STACK */
 	PERF_BR_IND,		/* X86_BR_IND_JMP */
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h b/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h
index d37629dbad72..26d8f0b5ac0d 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h
@@ -253,6 +253,8 @@ enum {
 	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,	/* not in transaction */
 	PERF_BR_MAX,
 };
 
-- 
2.25.1




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