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

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Date:   Fri, 10 Jun 2022 09:20:54 +0530
From:   Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@....com>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-perf-users@...r.kernel.org,
        peterz@...radead.org, alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com,
        jolsa@...hat.com, acme@...nel.org
Cc:     Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@....com>,
        Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@....com>,
        Suzuki Poulose <suzuki.poulose@....com>,
        James Clark <james.clark@....com>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH V6 1/8] perf: Add system error and not in transaction branch types

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.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| kernel | perf tool |                     Impact                        |
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|   old  |    old    |  Works as before                                  |
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|   old  |    new    |  PERF_BR_UNKNOWN is processed                     |
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|   new  |    old    |  PERF_BR_NO_TX is blocked via old PERF_BR_MAX     |
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|   new  |    new    |  PERF_BR_NO_TX is recognized                      |
--------------------------------------------------------------------------

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@...radead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Cc: linux-perf-users@...r.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@....com>
---
 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,
 };
 
-- 
2.25.1