[PATCH V6 1/8] perf: Add system error and not in transaction branch types

From: Anshuman Khandual
Date: Thu Jun 09 2022 - 23:51:29 EST


This expands generic branch type classification by adding two more entries
there in i.e system error and not in transaction. This also updates the x86
implementation to process X86_BR_NO_TX records as appropriate. This changes
branch types reported to user space on x86 platform but it should not be a
problem. The possible scenarios and impacts are enumerated here.

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| kernel | perf tool | Impact |
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| old | old | Works as before |
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| old | new | PERF_BR_UNKNOWN is processed |
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| new | old | PERF_BR_NO_TX is blocked via old PERF_BR_MAX |
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| new | new | PERF_BR_NO_TX is recognized |
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When PERF_BR_NO_TX is blocked via old PERF_BR_MAX (new kernel with old perf
tool) the user space might throw up an warning complaining about an
unrecognized branch types being reported, but it's expected. PERF_BR_SERROR
& PERF_BR_NO_TX branch types will be used for BRBE implementation on arm64
platform.

PERF_BR_NO_TX complements 'abort' and 'in_tx' elements in perf_branch_entry
which represent other transaction states for a given branch record. Because
this completes the transaction state classification.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: linux-perf-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@xxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/events/intel/lbr.c | 2 +-
include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h | 2 ++
2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/events/intel/lbr.c b/arch/x86/events/intel/lbr.c
index 13179f31fe10..0a506c85b53e 100644
--- a/arch/x86/events/intel/lbr.c
+++ b/arch/x86/events/intel/lbr.c
@@ -1334,7 +1334,7 @@ static int branch_map[X86_BR_TYPE_MAP_MAX] = {
PERF_BR_IND_CALL, /* X86_BR_IND_CALL */
PERF_BR_UNKNOWN, /* X86_BR_ABORT */
PERF_BR_UNKNOWN, /* X86_BR_IN_TX */
- PERF_BR_UNKNOWN, /* X86_BR_NO_TX */
+ PERF_BR_NO_TX, /* X86_BR_NO_TX */
PERF_BR_CALL, /* X86_BR_ZERO_CALL */
PERF_BR_UNKNOWN, /* X86_BR_CALL_STACK */
PERF_BR_IND, /* X86_BR_IND_JMP */
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h b/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h
index d37629dbad72..26d8f0b5ac0d 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h
@@ -253,6 +253,8 @@ enum {
PERF_BR_COND_RET = 10, /* conditional function return */
PERF_BR_ERET = 11, /* exception return */
PERF_BR_IRQ = 12, /* irq */
+ PERF_BR_SERROR = 13, /* system error */
+ PERF_BR_NO_TX = 14, /* not in transaction */
PERF_BR_MAX,
};

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