perf/x86/intel/bts: Add BTS PMU driver
authorAlexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Fri, 30 Jan 2015 10:40:35 +0000 (12:40 +0200)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Thu, 2 Apr 2015 15:14:21 +0000 (17:14 +0200)
commit8062382c8dbe2dc11d37e7f0b139508cf10de9d4
treedec544a0c4018d46f17b73f0a696ccf1c9524aab
parent52ca9ced3f70779589e6ecc329baffe69d8f5f7a
perf/x86/intel/bts: Add BTS PMU driver

Add support for Branch Trace Store (BTS) via kernel perf event infrastructure.
The difference with the existing implementation of BTS support is that this
one is a separate PMU that exports events' trace buffers to userspace by means
of AUX area of the perf buffer, which is zero-copy mapped into userspace.

The immediate benefit is that the buffer size can be much bigger, resulting in
fewer interrupts and no kernel side copying is involved and little to no trace
data loss. Also, kernel code can be traced with this driver.

The old way of collecting BTS traces still works.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Kaixu Xia <kaixu.xia@linaro.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Robert Richter <rric@kernel.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: acme@infradead.org
Cc: adrian.hunter@intel.com
Cc: kan.liang@intel.com
Cc: markus.t.metzger@intel.com
Cc: mathieu.poirier@linaro.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1422614435-114702-1-git-send-email-alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/Makefile
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.h
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel.c
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_bts.c [new file with mode: 0644]
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_ds.c