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Problem: perf did not show branch predicted/mispredicted bit in brstack. Output of perf -F brstack for profile collected Before: 0x4fdbcd/0x4fdc03/-/-/-/0 0x45f4c1/0x4fdba0/-/-/-/0 0x45f544/0x45f4bb/-/-/-/0 0x45f555/0x45f53c/-/-/-/0 0x7f66901cc24b/0x45f555/-/-/-/0 0x7f66901cc22e/0x7f66901cc23d/-/-/-/0 0x7f66901cc1ff/0x7f66901cc20f/-/-/-/0 0x7f66901cc1e8/0x7f66901cc1fc/-/-/-/0 After: 0x4fdbcd/0x4fdc03/P/-/-/0 0x45f4c1/0x4fdba0/P/-/-/0 0x45f544/0x45f4bb/P/-/-/0 0x45f555/0x45f53c/P/-/-/0 0x7f66901cc24b/0x45f555/P/-/-/0 0x7f66901cc22e/0x7f66901cc23d/P/-/-/0 0x7f66901cc1ff/0x7f66901cc20f/P/-/-/0 0x7f66901cc1e8/0x7f66901cc1fc/P/-/-/0 Cause: As mentioned in Software Development Manual vol 3, 17.4.8.1, IA32_PERF_CAPABILITIES[5:0] indicates the format of the address that is stored in the LBR stack. Knights Landing reports 1 (LBR_FORMAT_LIP) as its format. Despite that, registers containing FROM address of the branch, do have MISPREDICT bit but because of the format indicated in IA32_PERF_CAPABILITIES[5:0], LBR did not read MISPREDICT bit. Solution: Teach LBR about above Knights Landing quirk and make it read MISPREDICT bit. Signed-off-by: Jacek Tomaka <jacek.tomaka@poczta.fm> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180802013830.10600-1-jacekt@dugeo.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.