Re: [PATCH V4 00/10] perf: New conditional branch filter

From: Michael Ellerman
Date: Wed Dec 04 2013 - 23:48:28 EST


On Wed, 2013-12-04 at 16:02 +0530, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
> This patchset is the re-spin of the original branch stack sampling
> patchset which introduced new PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_COND branch filter. This patchset
> also enables SW based branch filtering support for book3s powerpc platforms which
> have PMU HW backed branch stack sampling support.
>
> Summary of code changes in this patchset:
>
> (1) Introduces a new PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_COND branch filter
> (2) Add the "cond" branch filter options in the "perf record" tool
> (3) Enable PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_COND in X86 platforms
> (4) Enable PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_COND in POWER8 platform
> (5) Update the documentation regarding "perf record" tool


Hi Arnaldo,

Can you please take just patches 1-5 into the perf tree? And do you mind
putting them in a topic branch so Benh can merge that.

The remaining patches are powerpc specific and still need some more review.

cheers


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