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Andi Kleen b16a5b52eb perf/x86: Add option to disable reading branch flags/cycles
With LBRv5 reading the extra LBR flags like mispredict, TSX, cycles is
not free anymore, as it has moved to a separate MSR.

For callstack mode we don't need any of this information; so we can
avoid the unnecessary MSR read. Add flags to the perf interface where
perf record can request not collecting this information.

Add branch_sample_type flags for CYCLES and FLAGS. It's a bit unusual
for branch_sample_types to be negative (disable), not positive (enable),
but since the legacy ABI reported the flags we need some form of
explicit disabling to avoid breaking the ABI.

After we have the flags the x86 perf code can keep track if any users
need the flags. If noone needs it the information is not collected.

This cuts down the cost of LBR callstack on Skylake significantly.
Profiling a kernel build with LBR call stack the average run time of
the PMI handler drops by 43%.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Cc: acme@kernel.org
Cc: jolsa@kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1445366797-30894-2-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-11-23 09:58:25 +01:00
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alpha mm: mlock: add mlock flags to enable VM_LOCKONFAULT usage 2015-11-05 19:34:48 -08:00
arc ARC fixes for 4.4-rc1 2015-11-14 09:09:37 -08:00
arm USB fixes for 4.4-rc2 2015-11-22 13:15:05 -08:00
arm64 arm64 fixes: 2015-11-19 12:21:23 -08:00
avr32 dmaengine updates for 4.4-rc1 2015-11-10 10:05:17 -08:00
blackfin treewide: Remove old email address 2015-11-23 09:44:58 +01:00
c6x irqdomain: Use irq_domain_get_of_node() instead of direct field access 2015-10-13 19:01:23 +02:00
cris cris: Drop reference to get_cmos_time() 2015-11-02 20:03:05 +01:00
frv kmap_atomic_to_page() has no users, remove it 2015-11-09 15:11:24 -08:00
h8300 h8300 update for v4.4 2015-11-12 15:26:39 -08:00
hexagon Linux 4.3-rc4 2015-10-06 17:10:28 +02:00
ia64 Power management and ACPI updates for v4.4-rc1 2015-11-04 18:10:13 -08:00
m32r Linux 4.3-rc4 2015-10-06 17:10:28 +02:00
m68k block: change ->make_request_fn() and users to return a queue cookie 2015-11-07 10:40:46 -07:00
metag Metag architecture changes for v4.4 2015-11-10 16:24:25 -08:00
microblaze kmap_atomic_to_page() has no users, remove it 2015-11-09 15:11:24 -08:00
mips MIPS: ath79: Add a machine entry for booting OF machines 2015-11-20 15:44:57 +01:00
mn10300 Linux 4.3-rc4 2015-10-06 17:10:28 +02:00
nios2 nios2 update for v4.4-rc1 2015-11-09 16:36:10 -08:00
openrisc
parisc Merge branch 'parisc-4.4-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/deller/parisc-linux 2015-11-22 12:50:58 -08:00
powerpc powerpc: Wire up sys_mlock2() 2015-11-16 17:05:53 +11:00
s390 s390: remove SALIPL loader 2015-11-16 12:51:11 +01:00
score Merge branch 'strscpy' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cmetcalf/linux-tile 2015-10-04 16:31:13 +01:00
sh treewide: Remove old email address 2015-11-23 09:44:58 +01:00
sparc treewide: Remove old email address 2015-11-23 09:44:58 +01:00
tile treewide: Remove old email address 2015-11-23 09:44:58 +01:00
um um: Switch clocksource to hrtimers 2015-11-06 22:54:49 +01:00
unicore32 pwm: Changes for v4.4-rc1 2015-11-11 09:16:10 -08:00
x86 perf/x86: Add option to disable reading branch flags/cycles 2015-11-23 09:58:25 +01:00
xtensa Merge branch 'for-4.4/io-poll' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block 2015-11-10 17:23:49 -08:00
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