[PATCH] perf: Consolidate branch sample filter helpers

Anshuman Khandual anshuman.khandual at arm.com
Tue Sep 6 01:44:14 PDT 2022


Besides the branch type filtering requests, 'event.attr.branch_sample_type'
also contains various flags indicating which additional information should
be captured, along with the base branch record. These flags help configure
the underlying hardware, and capture the branch records appropriately when
required e.g after PMU interrupt. But first, this moves an existing helper
perf_sample_save_hw_index() into the header before adding some more helpers
for other branch sample filter flags.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz at infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo at redhat.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme at kernel.org>
Cc: linux-perf-users at vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz at infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual at arm.com>
---
Hello Peter,

Could you please consider taking this patch along with others on the perf
ABI series. This patch has been part of the original BRBE driver series,
which will have one less patch to include going forward. Thank you.

- Anshuman

This applies on v6.0-rc4 but after applying the following patch series

https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220824044822.70230-1-anshuman.khandual@arm.com/

 include/linux/perf_event.h | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 kernel/events/core.c       |  9 ++-------
 2 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/perf_event.h b/include/linux/perf_event.h
index ee8b9ecdc03b..236375938eeb 100644
--- a/include/linux/perf_event.h
+++ b/include/linux/perf_event.h
@@ -1684,4 +1684,30 @@ static inline void perf_lopwr_cb(bool mode)
 }
 #endif
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_PERF_EVENTS
+static inline bool branch_sample_no_flags(const struct perf_event *event)
+{
+	return event->attr.branch_sample_type & PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_NO_FLAGS;
+}
+
+static inline bool branch_sample_no_cycles(const struct perf_event *event)
+{
+	return event->attr.branch_sample_type & PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_NO_CYCLES;
+}
+
+static inline bool branch_sample_type(const struct perf_event *event)
+{
+	return event->attr.branch_sample_type & PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_TYPE_SAVE;
+}
+
+static inline bool branch_sample_hw_index(const struct perf_event *event)
+{
+	return event->attr.branch_sample_type & PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_HW_INDEX;
+}
+
+static inline bool branch_sample_priv(const struct perf_event *event)
+{
+	return event->attr.branch_sample_type & PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_PRIV_SAVE;
+}
+#endif /* CONFIG_PERF_EVENTS */
 #endif /* _LINUX_PERF_EVENT_H */
diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c
index 2621fd24ad26..ff62d357a27b 100644
--- a/kernel/events/core.c
+++ b/kernel/events/core.c
@@ -6967,11 +6967,6 @@ static void perf_output_read(struct perf_output_handle *handle,
 		perf_output_read_one(handle, event, enabled, running);
 }
 
-static inline bool perf_sample_save_hw_index(struct perf_event *event)
-{
-	return event->attr.branch_sample_type & PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_HW_INDEX;
-}
-
 void perf_output_sample(struct perf_output_handle *handle,
 			struct perf_event_header *header,
 			struct perf_sample_data *data,
@@ -7060,7 +7055,7 @@ void perf_output_sample(struct perf_output_handle *handle,
 			     * sizeof(struct perf_branch_entry);
 
 			perf_output_put(handle, data->br_stack->nr);
-			if (perf_sample_save_hw_index(event))
+			if (branch_sample_hw_index(event))
 				perf_output_put(handle, data->br_stack->hw_idx);
 			perf_output_copy(handle, data->br_stack->entries, size);
 		} else {
@@ -7354,7 +7349,7 @@ void perf_prepare_sample(struct perf_event_header *header,
 	if (sample_type & PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_STACK) {
 		int size = sizeof(u64); /* nr */
 		if (data->br_stack) {
-			if (perf_sample_save_hw_index(event))
+			if (branch_sample_hw_index(event))
 				size += sizeof(u64);
 
 			size += data->br_stack->nr
-- 
2.25.1




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