Re: [PATCH v1 0/3] perf: add indirect jump filtering support

[Andi Kleen]

On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 11:09:57PM +0200, Stephane Eranian wrote:
> This short patch series adds a new filter to the branch stack
> sampling feature. The new filter enables sampling only indirect
> jumps. For each the source and target are captured.
> 
> The new branch_sample_type flag is: PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_IND_JUMP 
> 
> The series provides full support in the perf record tool:
> 
>   $ perf record -j ind_jmp ...
> 
> On Intel x86 processors, the filter is implemented using the
> LBR hw filter.
> 
> This filter is useful to study targets of indirect jumps.

Patches look all good to me. 
Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
-Andi
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