Turn off MC4_MISC thresholding banks on models which have them but that
particular processor implementation does not supply applicable error
sources to be counted.
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
Depending on whether the box supports the APIC LVT interrupt for
thresholding, we want to show the 'interrupt_enable' sysfs node or not.
Make that the case by adding it to the default sysfs attributes only if
it is supported.
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
Currently, the APIC LVT interrupt for error thresholding is implicitly
enabled. However, there are models in the F15h range which do not enable
it. Make the code machinery which sets up the APIC interrupt support
an optional setting and add an ->interrupt_capable member to the bank
representation mirroring that capability and enable the interrupt offset
programming only if it is true.
Simplify code and fixup comment style while at it.
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
BIOS will switch off the corresponding feature flag on family
15h models 10h-1fh non-desktop CPUs.
The topology extension CPUID leafs are required to detect which
cores belong to the same compute unit. (thread siblings mask is
set accordingly and also correct information about L1i and L2
cache sharing depends on this).
W/o this patch we wouldn't see which cores belong to the same
compute unit and also cache sharing information for L1i and L2
would be incorrect on such systems.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
A function name represents the pointer to it - no need to take the
address of it. (Fixing this helps us introduce some macro magic
around register_nmi_handler() in the future.)
Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
A small L3 cache index disable fix from Srivatsa Bhat which unifies the
way the code checks for already disabled indices.
( Pulling it into v3.4 despite the v3.5 tag - the fix is small and we better
keep the same code across kernel versions for such user facing interfaces. )
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
When GHES error record is logged into mcelog kernel buffer, a validation
check for physical address is necessary, which prevents reporting an
invalid physical address.
[Since physical address is the only useful element in this error record,
we drop generating the record completely if we don't have a valid address]
Signed-off-by: Chen Gong <gong.chen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
If the L3 disable slot is already in use, return -EEXIST instead of
-EINVAL. The caller, store_cache_disable(), checks this return value to
print an appropriate warning.
Also, we want to signal with -EEXIST that the current index we're
disabling has actually been already disabled on the node:
$ echo 12 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu3/cache/index3/cache_disable_0
$ echo 12 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu3/cache/index3/cache_disable_0
-bash: echo: write error: File exists
$ echo 12 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu3/cache/index3/cache_disable_1
-bash: echo: write error: File exists
$ echo 12 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu5/cache/index3/cache_disable_1
-bash: echo: write error: File exists
The old code would say
-bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument
for disable slot 1 when playing the example above with no output in
dmesg, which is clearly misleading.
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120419070053.GB16645@elgon.mountain
[Boris: add testing for the other index too]
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
Reading machine check bank registers is slow. There is a trend of
increasing the number of banks, and the number of cores. The main section
of do_machine_check() is a serialized section where each cpu in turn
checks every bank. Even on a little two socket SandyBridge-EP system
that multiplies out as:
2 sockets * 8 cores * 2 hyperthreads * 20 banks = 640 MSRs
We already scan the banks in parallel in mce_no_way_out() to see if there
is a fatal error anywhere in the system. If we build a cache of VALID
bits during this scan, we can avoid uselessly re-reading banks that have
no data. Note that this cache is only a hint. If the valid bit is set in a
shared bank, all cpus that share that bank will see it during the parallel
scan, but the first to find it in the sequential scan will (usually) clear
the bank.
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
It's only called from amd.c:srat_detect_node(). The introduced
condition for calling the fixup code is true for all AMD
multi-node processors, e.g. Magny-Cours and Interlagos. There we
have 2 NUMA nodes on one socket. Thus there are cores having
different numa-node-id but with equal phys_proc_id.
There is no point to print error messages in such a situation.
The confusing/misleading error message was introduced with
commit 64be4c1c24 ("x86: Add
x86_init platform override to fix up NUMA core numbering").
Remove the default fixup function (especially the error message)
and replace it by a NULL pointer check, move the
Numascale-specific condition for calling the fixup into the
fixup-function itself and slightly adapt the comment.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Cc: <sp@numascale.com>
Cc: <bp@amd64.org>
Cc: <daniel@numascale-asia.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120402160648.GR27684@alberich.amd.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Pull perf updates and fixes from Ingo Molnar:
"It's mostly fixes, but there's also two late items:
- preliminary GTK GUI support for perf report
- PMU raw event format descriptors in sysfs, to be parsed by tooling
The raw event format in sysfs is a new ABI. For example for the 'CPU'
PMU we have:
aldebaran:~> ll /sys/bus/event_source/devices/cpu/format/*
-r--r--r--. 1 root root 4096 Mar 31 10:29 /sys/bus/event_source/devices/cpu/format/any
-r--r--r--. 1 root root 4096 Mar 31 10:29 /sys/bus/event_source/devices/cpu/format/cmask
-r--r--r--. 1 root root 4096 Mar 31 10:29 /sys/bus/event_source/devices/cpu/format/edge
-r--r--r--. 1 root root 4096 Mar 31 10:29 /sys/bus/event_source/devices/cpu/format/event
-r--r--r--. 1 root root 4096 Mar 31 10:29 /sys/bus/event_source/devices/cpu/format/inv
-r--r--r--. 1 root root 4096 Mar 31 10:29 /sys/bus/event_source/devices/cpu/format/offcore_rsp
-r--r--r--. 1 root root 4096 Mar 31 10:29 /sys/bus/event_source/devices/cpu/format/pc
-r--r--r--. 1 root root 4096 Mar 31 10:29 /sys/bus/event_source/devices/cpu/format/umask
those lists of fields contain a specific format:
aldebaran:~> cat /sys/bus/event_source/devices/cpu/format/offcore_rsp
config1:0-63
So, those who wish to specify raw events can now use the following
event format:
-e cpu/cmask=1,event=2,umask=3
Most people will not want to specify any events (let alone raw
events), they'll just use whatever default event the tools use.
But for more obscure PMU events that have no cross-architecture
generic events the above syntax is more usable and a bit more
structured than specifying hex numbers."
* 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (41 commits)
perf tools: Remove auto-generated bison/flex files
perf annotate: Fix off by one symbol hist size allocation and hit accounting
perf tools: Add missing ref-cycles event back to event parser
perf annotate: addr2line wants addresses in same format as objdump
perf probe: Finder fails to resolve function name to address
tracing: Fix ent_size in trace output
perf symbols: Handle NULL dso in dso__name_len
perf symbols: Do not include libgen.h
perf tools: Fix bug in raw sample parsing
perf tools: Fix display of first level of callchains
perf tools: Switch module.h into export.h
perf: Move mmap page data_head offset assertion out of header
perf: Fix mmap_page capabilities and docs
perf diff: Fix to work with new hists design
perf tools: Fix modifier to be applied on correct events
perf tools: Fix various casting issues for 32 bits
perf tools: Simplify event_read_id exit path
tracing: Fix ftrace stack trace entries
tracing: Move the tracing_on/off() declarations into CONFIG_TRACING
perf report: Add a simple GTK2-based 'perf report' browser
...
Pull x32 support for x86-64 from Ingo Molnar:
"This tree introduces the X32 binary format and execution mode for x86:
32-bit data space binaries using 64-bit instructions and 64-bit kernel
syscalls.
This allows applications whose working set fits into a 32 bits address
space to make use of 64-bit instructions while using a 32-bit address
space with shorter pointers, more compressed data structures, etc."
Fix up trivial context conflicts in arch/x86/{Kconfig,vdso/vma.c}
* 'x86-x32-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (71 commits)
x32: Fix alignment fail in struct compat_siginfo
x32: Fix stupid ia32/x32 inversion in the siginfo format
x32: Add ptrace for x32
x32: Switch to a 64-bit clock_t
x32: Provide separate is_ia32_task() and is_x32_task() predicates
x86, mtrr: Use explicit sizing and padding for the 64-bit ioctls
x86/x32: Fix the binutils auto-detect
x32: Warn and disable rather than error if binutils too old
x32: Only clear TIF_X32 flag once
x32: Make sure TS_COMPAT is cleared for x32 tasks
fs: Remove missed ->fds_bits from cessation use of fd_set structs internally
fs: Fix close_on_exec pointer in alloc_fdtable
x32: Drop non-__vdso weak symbols from the x32 VDSO
x32: Fix coding style violations in the x32 VDSO code
x32: Add x32 VDSO support
x32: Allow x32 to be configured
x32: If configured, add x32 system calls to system call tables
x32: Handle process creation
x32: Signal-related system calls
x86: Add #ifdef CONFIG_COMPAT to <asm/sys_ia32.h>
...
Pull x86 updates from Ingo Molnar.
This touches some non-x86 files due to the sanitized INLINE_SPIN_UNLOCK
config usage.
Fixed up trivial conflicts due to just header include changes (removing
headers due to cpu_idle() merge clashing with the <asm/system.h> split).
* 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/apic/amd: Be more verbose about LVT offset assignments
x86, tls: Off by one limit check
x86/ioapic: Add io_apic_ops driver layer to allow interception
x86/olpc: Add debugfs interface for EC commands
x86: Merge the x86_32 and x86_64 cpu_idle() functions
x86/kconfig: Remove CONFIG_TR=y from the defconfigs
x86: Stop recursive fault in print_context_stack after stack overflow
x86/io_apic: Move and reenable irq only when CONFIG_GENERIC_PENDING_IRQ=y
x86/apic: Add separate apic_id_valid() functions for selected apic drivers
locking/kconfig: Simplify INLINE_SPIN_UNLOCK usage
x86/kconfig: Update defconfigs
x86: Fix excessive MSR print out when show_msr is not specified
Pull "Disintegrate and delete asm/system.h" from David Howells:
"Here are a bunch of patches to disintegrate asm/system.h into a set of
separate bits to relieve the problem of circular inclusion
dependencies.
I've built all the working defconfigs from all the arches that I can
and made sure that they don't break.
The reason for these patches is that I recently encountered a circular
dependency problem that came about when I produced some patches to
optimise get_order() by rewriting it to use ilog2().
This uses bitops - and on the SH arch asm/bitops.h drags in
asm-generic/get_order.h by a circuituous route involving asm/system.h.
The main difficulty seems to be asm/system.h. It holds a number of
low level bits with no/few dependencies that are commonly used (eg.
memory barriers) and a number of bits with more dependencies that
aren't used in many places (eg. switch_to()).
These patches break asm/system.h up into the following core pieces:
(1) asm/barrier.h
Move memory barriers here. This already done for MIPS and Alpha.
(2) asm/switch_to.h
Move switch_to() and related stuff here.
(3) asm/exec.h
Move arch_align_stack() here. Other process execution related bits
could perhaps go here from asm/processor.h.
(4) asm/cmpxchg.h
Move xchg() and cmpxchg() here as they're full word atomic ops and
frequently used by atomic_xchg() and atomic_cmpxchg().
(5) asm/bug.h
Move die() and related bits.
(6) asm/auxvec.h
Move AT_VECTOR_SIZE_ARCH here.
Other arch headers are created as needed on a per-arch basis."
Fixed up some conflicts from other header file cleanups and moving code
around that has happened in the meantime, so David's testing is somewhat
weakened by that. We'll find out anything that got broken and fix it..
* tag 'split-asm_system_h-for-linus-20120328' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-asm_system: (38 commits)
Delete all instances of asm/system.h
Remove all #inclusions of asm/system.h
Add #includes needed to permit the removal of asm/system.h
Move all declarations of free_initmem() to linux/mm.h
Disintegrate asm/system.h for OpenRISC
Split arch_align_stack() out from asm-generic/system.h
Split the switch_to() wrapper out of asm-generic/system.h
Move the asm-generic/system.h xchg() implementation to asm-generic/cmpxchg.h
Create asm-generic/barrier.h
Make asm-generic/cmpxchg.h #include asm-generic/cmpxchg-local.h
Disintegrate asm/system.h for Xtensa
Disintegrate asm/system.h for Unicore32 [based on ver #3, changed by gxt]
Disintegrate asm/system.h for Tile
Disintegrate asm/system.h for Sparc
Disintegrate asm/system.h for SH
Disintegrate asm/system.h for Score
Disintegrate asm/system.h for S390
Disintegrate asm/system.h for PowerPC
Disintegrate asm/system.h for PA-RISC
Disintegrate asm/system.h for MN10300
...
Pull <linux/bug.h> cleanup from Paul Gortmaker:
"The changes shown here are to unify linux's BUG support under the one
<linux/bug.h> file. Due to historical reasons, we have some BUG code
in bug.h and some in kernel.h -- i.e. the support for BUILD_BUG in
linux/kernel.h predates the addition of linux/bug.h, but old code in
kernel.h wasn't moved to bug.h at that time. As a band-aid, kernel.h
was including <asm/bug.h> to pseudo link them.
This has caused confusion[1] and general yuck/WTF[2] reactions. Here
is an example that violates the principle of least surprise:
CC lib/string.o
lib/string.c: In function 'strlcat':
lib/string.c:225:2: error: implicit declaration of function 'BUILD_BUG_ON'
make[2]: *** [lib/string.o] Error 1
$
$ grep linux/bug.h lib/string.c
#include <linux/bug.h>
$
We've included <linux/bug.h> for the BUG infrastructure and yet we
still get a compile fail! [We've not kernel.h for BUILD_BUG_ON.] Ugh -
very confusing for someone who is new to kernel development.
With the above in mind, the goals of this changeset are:
1) find and fix any include/*.h files that were relying on the
implicit presence of BUG code.
2) find and fix any C files that were consuming kernel.h and hence
relying on implicitly getting some/all BUG code.
3) Move the BUG related code living in kernel.h to <linux/bug.h>
4) remove the asm/bug.h from kernel.h to finally break the chain.
During development, the order was more like 3-4, build-test, 1-2. But
to ensure that git history for bisect doesn't get needless build
failures introduced, the commits have been reorderd to fix the problem
areas in advance.
[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/1/3/90
[2] https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/1/17/414"
Fix up conflicts (new radeon file, reiserfs header cleanups) as per Paul
and linux-next.
* tag 'bug-for-3.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux:
kernel.h: doesn't explicitly use bug.h, so don't include it.
bug: consolidate BUILD_BUG_ON with other bug code
BUG: headers with BUG/BUG_ON etc. need linux/bug.h
bug.h: add include of it to various implicit C users
lib: fix implicit users of kernel.h for TAINT_WARN
spinlock: macroize assert_spin_locked to avoid bug.h dependency
x86: relocate get/set debugreg fcns to include/asm/debugreg.
Dave found:
| During bootup, I now have 162 messages like this..
| [ 0.227346] MSR0000001b: 00000000fee00900
| [ 0.227465] MSR00000021: 0000000000000001
| [ 0.227584] MSR0000002a: 00000000c1c81400
|
| commit 21c3fcf3e3 looks suspect.
| It claims that it will only print these out if show_msr= is
| passed, but that doesn't seem to be the case.
Fix it by changing to the version that checks the index.
Reported-and-tested-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1332477103-4595-1-git-send-email-yinghai@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Complete the syscall-less self-profiling feature and address
all complaints, namely:
- capabilities, so we can detect what is actually available at runtime
Add a capabilities field to perf_event_mmap_page to indicate
what is actually available for use.
- on x86: RDPMC weirdness due to being 40/48 bits and not sign-extending
properly.
- ABI documentation as to how all this stuff works.
Also improve the documentation for the new features.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Vince Weaver <vweaver1@eecs.utk.edu>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1332433596.2487.33.camel@twins
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Pull x86 "urgent" leftovers from Ingo Molnar:
"Pending x86/urgent bits that were not high prio enough to warrant
-rc-less v3.3-final inclusion."
* 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86, efi: Fix pointer math issue in handle_ramdisks()
x86/ioapic: Add register level checks to detect bogus io-apic entries
x86, mce: Fix rcu splat in drain_mce_log_buffer()
x86, memblock: Move mem_hole_size() to .init
Pull MCE changes from Ingo Molnar.
* 'x86-mce-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/mce: Fix return value of mce_chrdev_read() when erst is disabled
x86/mce: Convert static array of pointers to per-cpu variables
x86/mce: Replace hard coded hex constants with symbolic defines
x86/mce: Recognise machine check bank signature for data path error
x86/mce: Handle "action required" errors
x86/mce: Add mechanism to safely save information in MCE handler
x86/mce: Create helper function to save addr/misc when needed
HWPOISON: Add code to handle "action required" errors.
HWPOISON: Clean up memory_failure() vs. __memory_failure()
Pull x86/fpu changes from Ingo Molnar.
* 'x86-fpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
i387: Split up <asm/i387.h> into exported and internal interfaces
i387: Uninline the generic FP helpers that we expose to kernel modules
Pull driver core patches for 3.4-rc1 from Greg KH:
"Here's the big driver core merge for 3.4-rc1.
Lots of various things here, sysfs fixes/tweaks (with the nlink
breakage reverted), dynamic debugging updates, w1 drivers, hyperv
driver updates, and a variety of other bits and pieces, full
information in the shortlog."
* tag 'driver-core-3.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: (78 commits)
Tools: hv: Support enumeration from all the pools
Tools: hv: Fully support the new KVP verbs in the user level daemon
Drivers: hv: Support the newly introduced KVP messages in the driver
Drivers: hv: Add new message types to enhance KVP
regulator: Support driver probe deferral
Revert "sysfs: Kill nlink counting."
uevent: send events in correct order according to seqnum (v3)
driver core: minor comment formatting cleanups
driver core: move the deferred probe pointer into the private area
drivercore: Add driver probe deferral mechanism
DS2781 Maxim Stand-Alone Fuel Gauge battery and w1 slave drivers
w1_bq27000: Only one thread can access the bq27000 at a time.
w1_bq27000 - remove w1_bq27000_write
w1_bq27000: remove unnecessary NULL test.
sysfs: Fix memory leak in sysfs_sd_setsecdata().
intel_idle: Revert change of auto_demotion_disable_flags for Nehalem
w1: Fix w1_bq27000
driver-core: documentation: fix up Greg's email address
powernow-k6: Really enable auto-loading
powernow-k7: Fix CPU family number
...
Adding sysfs group 'format' attribute for pmu device that
contains a syntax description on how to construct raw events.
The event configuration is described in following
struct pefr_event_attr attributes:
config
config1
config2
Each sysfs attribute within the format attribute group,
describes mapping of name and bitfield definition within
one of above attributes.
eg:
"/sys/...<dev>/format/event" contains "config:0-7"
"/sys/...<dev>/format/umask" contains "config:8-15"
"/sys/...<dev>/format/usr" contains "config:16"
the attribute value syntax is:
line: config ':' bits
config: 'config' | 'config1' | 'config2"
bits: bits ',' bit_term | bit_term
bit_term: VALUE '-' VALUE | VALUE
Adding format attribute definitions for x86 cpu pmus.
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-vhdk5y2hyype9j63prymty36@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
This patch implements code to handle ibs interrupts. If ibs data
is available a raw perf_event data sample is created and sent
back to the userland. This patch only implements the storage of
ibs data in the raw sample, but this could be extended in a
later patch by generating generic event data such as the rip
from the ibs sampling data.
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1323968199-9326-3-git-send-email-robert.richter@amd.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This patch implements perf configuration for AMD IBS. The IBS
pmu is selected using the type attribute in sysfs. There are two
types of ibs pmus, for instruction fetch (IBS_FETCH) and for
instruction execution (IBS_OP):
/sys/bus/event_source/devices/ibs_fetch/type
/sys/bus/event_source/devices/ibs_op/type
Except for the sample period IBS can only be set up with raw
config values and raw data samples. The event attributes for the
syscall should be programmed like this (IBS_FETCH):
type = get_pmu_type("/sys/bus/event_source/devices/ibs_fetch/type");
memset(&attr, 0, sizeof(attr));
attr.type = type;
attr.sample_type = PERF_SAMPLE_CPU | PERF_SAMPLE_RAW;
attr.config = IBS_FETCH_CONFIG_DEFAULT;
This implementation does not yet support 64 bit counters. It is
limited to the hardware counter bit width which is 20 bits. 64
bit support can be added later.
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1323968199-9326-2-git-send-email-robert.richter@amd.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
With branch stack sampling, it is possible to filter by priv levels.
In system-wide mode, that means it is possible to capture only user
level branches. The builtin SW LBR filter needs to disassemble code
based on LBR captured addresses. For that, it needs to know the task
the addresses are associated with. Because of context switches, the
content of the branch stack buffer may contain addresses from
different tasks.
We need a callback on context switch to either flush the branch stack
or save it. This patch adds a new callback in struct pmu which is called
during context switches. The callback is called only when necessary.
That is when a system-wide context has, at least, one event which
uses PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_STACK. The callback is never called for
per-thread context.
In this version, the Intel x86 code simply flushes (resets) the LBR
on context switches (fills it with zeroes). Those zeroed branches are
then filtered out by the SW filter.
Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1328826068-11713-11-git-send-email-eranian@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This patch adds an internal sofware filter to complement
the (optional) LBR hardware filter.
The software filter is necessary:
- as a substitute when there is no HW LBR filter (e.g., Atom, Core)
- to complement HW LBR filter in case of errata (e.g., Nehalem/Westmere)
- to provide finer grain filtering (e.g., all processors)
Sometimes the LBR HW filter cannot distinguish between two types
of branches. For instance, to capture syscall as CALLS, it is necessary
to enable the LBR_FAR filter which will also capture JMP instructions.
Thus, a second pass is necessary to filter those out, this is what the
SW filter can do.
The SW filter is built on top of the internal x86 disassembler. It
is a best effort filter especially for user level code. It is subject
to the availability of the text page of the program.
The SW filter is enabled on all Intel processors. It is bypassed
when the user is capturing all branches at all priv levels.
Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1328826068-11713-9-git-send-email-eranian@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
