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perf: Extend branch type classification

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branch_entry.type now has ran out of space to accommodate more branch types
classification. This will prevent perf branch stack implementation on arm64
(via BRBE) to capture all available branch types. Extending this bit field
i.e branch_entry.type [4 bits] is not an option as it will break user space
ABI both for little and big endian perf tools.

Extend branch classification with a new field branch_entry.new_type via a
new branch type PERF_BR_EXTEND_ABI in branch_entry.type. Perf tools which
could decode PERF_BR_EXTEND_ABI, will then parse branch_entry.new_type as
well.

branch_entry.new_type is a 4 bit field which can hold upto 16 branch types.
The first three branch types will hold various generic page faults followed
by five architecture specific branch types, which can be overridden by the
platform for specific use cases. These architecture specific branch types
gets overridden on arm64 platform for BRBE implementation.

New generic branch types

 - PERF_BR_NEW_FAULT_ALGN
 - PERF_BR_NEW_FAULT_DATA
 - PERF_BR_NEW_FAULT_INST

New arch specific branch types

 - PERF_BR_NEW_ARCH_1
 - PERF_BR_NEW_ARCH_2
 - PERF_BR_NEW_ARCH_3
 - PERF_BR_NEW_ARCH_4
 - PERF_BR_NEW_ARCH_5

Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: James Clark <james.clark@arm.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220824044822.70230-3-anshuman.khandual@arm.com
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Anshuman Khandual 2022-08-24 10:18:16 +05:30 committed by Peter Zijlstra
parent a724ec8296
commit b190bc4ac9
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include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h
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@ -255,6 +255,7 @@ enum {
PERF_BR_IRQ = 12, /* irq */
PERF_BR_SERROR = 13, /* system error */
PERF_BR_NO_TX = 14, /* not in transaction */
PERF_BR_EXTEND_ABI = 15, /* extend ABI */
PERF_BR_MAX,
};
@ -269,6 +270,18 @@ enum {
PERF_BR_SPEC_MAX,
};
enum {
PERF_BR_NEW_FAULT_ALGN = 0, /* Alignment fault */
PERF_BR_NEW_FAULT_DATA = 1, /* Data fault */
PERF_BR_NEW_FAULT_INST = 2, /* Inst fault */
PERF_BR_NEW_ARCH_1 = 3, /* Architecture specific */
PERF_BR_NEW_ARCH_2 = 4, /* Architecture specific */
PERF_BR_NEW_ARCH_3 = 5, /* Architecture specific */
PERF_BR_NEW_ARCH_4 = 6, /* Architecture specific */
PERF_BR_NEW_ARCH_5 = 7, /* Architecture specific */
PERF_BR_NEW_MAX,
};
#define PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_PLM_ALL \
(PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_USER|\
PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_KERNEL|\
@ -1388,7 +1401,8 @@ struct perf_branch_entry {
cycles:16, /* cycle count to last branch */
type:4, /* branch type */
spec:2, /* branch speculation info */
reserved:38;
new_type:4, /* additional branch type */
reserved:34;
};
union perf_sample_weight {