Commit-ID:  bac52139f0b7ab31330e98fd87fc5a2664951050
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/bac52139f0b7ab31330e98fd87fc5a2664951050
Author:     Anshuman Khandual <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Thu, 22 May 2014 12:50:07 +0530
Committer:  Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
CommitDate: Thu, 5 Jun 2014 12:30:15 +0200

perf: Add new conditional branch filter 'PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_COND'

This patch introduces new branch filter PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_COND which
will extend the existing perf ABI. This will filter branches which are
conditional. Various architectures can provide this functionality either
with HW filtering support (if present) or with SW filtering of captured
branch instructions.

Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Stephane Eranian <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Link: 
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
---
 include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h b/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h
index e3fc8f0..d9cd853 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h
@@ -163,8 +163,9 @@ enum perf_branch_sample_type {
        PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_ABORT_TX     = 1U << 7, /* transaction aborts */
        PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_IN_TX        = 1U << 8, /* in transaction */
        PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_NO_TX        = 1U << 9, /* not in transaction */
+       PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_COND         = 1U << 10, /* conditional branches */
 
-       PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_MAX          = 1U << 10, /* non-ABI */
+       PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_MAX          = 1U << 11, /* non-ABI */
 };
 
 #define PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_PLM_ALL \
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