From 8062382c8dbe2dc11d37e7f0b139508cf10de9d4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alexander Shishkin Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2015 12:40:35 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] 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 Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: H. Peter Anvin Cc: Kaixu Xia Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Mike Galbraith Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Robert Richter Cc: Stephane Eranian Cc: Thomas Gleixner 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 --- Reading git-format-patch failed