Re: [PATCH v1 1/5] perf/core: Define the common branch type classification

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Thu Apr 06 2017 - 05:26:41 EST


On Thu, Apr 06, 2017 at 04:21:06PM +0800, Jin, Yao wrote:
> Hi, otherwise we have to maintain 2 branch type copies between kernel and
> user-space.
>
> For example, currently X86_BR_* are defined in lbr.c. To display the branch
> type in user-space, the user-space has to maintain the same copy for
> X86_BR_*. I didn't get a better idea.

I still don't understand what you want; or why it would matter.

Those specific macros are for hardware LBR filter emulation/fixup. What
does that have to do with any userspace crud?