linux/tools/perf
Roberto Agostino Vitillo bdfebd848f perf record: Add support for sampling taken branch
This patch adds a new option to enable taken branch stack
sampling, i.e., leverage the PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_STACK feature
of perf_events.

There is a new option to active this mode: -b.
It is possible to pass a set of filters to select the type of
branches to sample.

The following filters are available:

 - any : any type of branches
 - any_call : any function call or system call
 - any_ret : any function return or system call return
 - any_ind : any indirect branch
 - u:  only when the branch target is at the user level
 - k: only when the branch target is in the kernel
 - hv: only when the branch target is in the hypervisor

Filters can be combined by passing a comma separated list
to the option:

$ perf record -b any_call,u -e cycles:u branchy

Signed-off-by: Roberto Agostino Vitillo <ravitillo@lbl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: acme@redhat.com
Cc: robert.richter@amd.com
Cc: ming.m.lin@intel.com
Cc: andi@firstfloor.org
Cc: asharma@fb.com
Cc: vweaver1@eecs.utk.edu
Cc: khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: dsahern@gmail.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1328826068-11713-13-git-send-email-eranian@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2012-03-09 08:26:05 +01:00
..
arch perf/powerpc: Fix build for PowerPC with uclibc toolchains 2011-11-25 14:11:27 +11:00
bench perf tool: Fix perf stack to non executable on x86_64 2012-02-06 19:14:17 -02:00
config perf tools: git mv tools/perf/{features-tests.mak,config/} 2011-04-19 08:18:36 -03:00
Documentation perf record: Add support for sampling taken branch 2012-03-09 08:26:05 +01:00
python perf python: Use attr.watermark in twatch.py 2012-01-30 18:38:23 -02:00
scripts perf script: Add drop monitor script 2011-09-29 16:41:37 -03:00
util perf record: Add support for sampling taken branch 2012-03-09 08:26:05 +01:00
.gitignore perf tools: Makefile: Remove various and sundry cruft 2011-02-18 07:43:06 -02:00
builtin-annotate.c perf annotate: Get rid of field_sep check 2012-01-08 13:29:34 -02:00
builtin-bench.c perf bench: Also allow measuring memset() 2012-01-24 20:25:32 -02:00
builtin-buildid-cache.c perf buildid: add perfconfig option to specify buildid cache dir 2010-06-05 09:34:04 -03:00
builtin-buildid-list.c perf report: Accept fifos as input file 2011-12-23 17:01:03 -02:00
builtin-diff.c perf tools: Rename perf_event_ops to perf_tool 2011-11-28 10:39:28 -02:00
builtin-evlist.c perf report: Accept fifos as input file 2011-12-23 17:01:03 -02:00
builtin-help.c perf options: Type check all the remaining OPT_ variants 2010-05-17 16:22:41 -03:00
builtin-inject.c perf tools: Rename perf_event_ops to perf_tool 2011-11-28 10:39:28 -02:00
builtin-kmem.c perf kmem: Fix a memory leak 2012-01-08 13:27:54 -02:00
builtin-kvm.c perf kvm: Do guest-only counting by default 2012-01-06 15:47:37 -02:00
builtin-list.c perf list: Allow filtering list of events 2011-02-17 15:38:58 -02:00
builtin-lock.c perf lock: Document lock info subcommand 2012-01-30 18:30:48 -02:00
builtin-probe.c perf probe: Rename target_module to target 2012-02-02 17:39:15 -02:00
builtin-record.c perf record: Add support for sampling taken branch 2012-03-09 08:26:05 +01:00
builtin-report.c perf report: Accept fifos as input file 2011-12-23 17:01:03 -02:00
builtin-sched.c perf report: Accept fifos as input file 2011-12-23 17:01:03 -02:00
builtin-script.c perf script: Add option resolving vmlinux path 2012-01-30 18:13:07 -02:00
builtin-stat.c perf tools: Allow multiple threads or processes in record, stat, top 2012-02-13 22:54:11 -02:00
builtin-test.c perf tools: Invert the sample_id_all logic 2012-02-14 14:18:57 -02:00
builtin-timechart.c perf report: Accept fifos as input file 2011-12-23 17:01:03 -02:00
builtin-top.c perf tools: Handle kernels that don't support attr.exclude_{guest,host} 2012-03-03 12:19:56 -03:00
builtin.h perf tools: Make perf.data more self-descriptive (v8) 2011-10-07 17:01:24 -03:00
command-list.txt perf evlist: New command to list the names of events present in a perf.data file 2011-03-15 11:10:48 -03:00
CREDITS perf_counter tools: Add CREDITS file for Git contributors 2009-06-24 19:54:29 +02:00
design.txt perf: Fix few typos + cosmetics 2010-01-13 17:39:44 +01:00
Makefile perf tools: Add sysfs mountpoint interface 2012-02-13 23:27:15 -02:00
MANIFEST perf tools: Fix out of tree compiles 2012-02-13 22:46:41 -02:00
perf-archive.sh perf buildid: add perfconfig option to specify buildid cache dir 2010-06-05 09:34:04 -03:00
perf.c perf tools: Simplify debugfs mountpoint handling code 2011-11-28 10:11:28 -02:00
perf.h perf record: Add support for sampling taken branch 2012-03-09 08:26:05 +01:00