[V3 01/10] perf: New conditional branch filter criteria in branch stack sampling

[mpe@ellerman.id.au]

Ideally your commit subject would contain a verb, preferably in the present
tense.

I think simply "perf: Add PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_COND" would be clearer.

On Wed, 2013-16-10 at 06:56:48 UTC, 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 either HW filtering support (if present) or
> with SW filtering of instructions.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <khandual at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Reviewed-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian at google.com>
> ---
>  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 0b1df41..5da52b6 100644
> --- a/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h
> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h
> @@ -160,8 +160,9 @@ 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 */
>  };

This no longer applies against Linus' tree, you'll need to rebase it.

cheers