On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 10:31:53AM -0400, kan.li...@intel.com wrote:
> From: Kan Liang <kan.li...@intel.com>
>
> An earlier kernel patch allowed enabling PT and LBR at the same
> time on Goldmont.
> commit ccbebba4c6bf ("perf/x86/intel/pt: Bypass PT vs. LBR
> exclusivity if the core supports it")
> However, users still cannot use Intel PT and LBRs simultaneously.
> $ sudo perf record -e cycles,intel_pt//u -b -- sleep 1
> Error:
> PMU Hardware doesn't support sampling/overflow-interrupts.
>
> PT implicitly adds dummy event in perf tool. dummy event is
> software event which doesn't support LBR.
>
> Always setting branch_type=no for dummy event in Intel PT.
>
> Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.li...@intel.com>
> ---
> tools/perf/arch/x86/util/intel-pt.c | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/tools/perf/arch/x86/util/intel-pt.c
> b/tools/perf/arch/x86/util/intel-pt.c
> index f630de0..651ab9e 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/arch/x86/util/intel-pt.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/arch/x86/util/intel-pt.c
> @@ -544,6 +544,22 @@ static int intel_pt_validate_config(struct perf_pmu
> *intel_pt_pmu,
> evsel->attr.config);
> }
>
> +static int add_no_lbr_config_term(struct list_head *config_terms)
> +{
> + struct perf_evsel_config_term *lbr_term;
> +
> + lbr_term = zalloc(sizeof(*lbr_term));
> + if (!lbr_term)
> + return -ENOMEM;
> +
> + INIT_LIST_HEAD(&lbr_term->list);
> + lbr_term->type = PERF_EVSEL__CONFIG_TERM_BRANCH;
> + lbr_term->val.branch = strdup("no");
> + list_add_tail(&lbr_term->list, config_terms);
> +
> + return 0;
> +}
> +
> static int intel_pt_recording_options(struct auxtrace_record *itr,
> struct perf_evlist *evlist,
> struct record_opts *opts)
> @@ -701,6 +717,8 @@ static int intel_pt_recording_options(struct
> auxtrace_record *itr,
> perf_evsel__set_sample_bit(switch_evsel, TIME);
> perf_evsel__set_sample_bit(switch_evsel, CPU);
>
> +
> add_no_lbr_config_term(&switch_evsel->config_terms);
> +
hum, why can't you change the sample bit directly? with:
perf_evsel__reset_sample_bit(switch_evsel,
BRANCH_STACK);
jirka
