From: Andi Kleen Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2015 21:53:59 +0000 (-0700) Subject: perf/x86/intel/pebs: Add PEBS frontend profiling for Skylake X-Git-Tag: omap-for-v4.4/cleanup-pt1~34^2~7 X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=d0dc8494cd6904f8ad035d9ad97f313948f35d0c;p=pandora-kernel.git perf/x86/intel/pebs: Add PEBS frontend profiling for Skylake Skylake has a new FRONTEND_LATENCY PEBS event to accurately profile frontend problems (like ITLB or decoding issues). The new event is configured through a separate MSR, which selects a range of sub events. Define the extra MSR as a extra reg and export support for it through sysfs. To avoid duplicating the existing tables use a new function to add new entries to existing tables. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1435707205-6676-4-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- Reading git-diff-tree failed