Re: [PATCH 1/5] perf: New conditional branch filter criteria in branch stack sampling

2013-05-23 Thread Stephane Eranian
On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 8:22 AM, Anshuman Khandual wrote: > POWER8 PMU based BHRB supports filtering for conditional branches. > This patch introduces new branch filter PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_COND which > will extend the existing perf ABI. Other architectures can provide > this functionality with eith

[PATCH 1/5] perf: New conditional branch filter criteria in branch stack sampling

2013-05-21 Thread Anshuman Khandual
POWER8 PMU based BHRB supports filtering for conditional branches. This patch introduces new branch filter PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_COND which will extend the existing perf ABI. Other architectures can provide this functionality with either HW filtering support (if present) or with SW filtering of instru