linux/tools
Adrian Hunter ba11ba65e0 perf intel-pt: Add mispred-all config option to aid use with autofdo
autofdo incorrectly expects branch flags to include either mispred or
predicted.  In fact mispred = predicted = 0 is valid and means the flags
are not supported, which they aren't by Intel PT.

To make autofdo work, add a config option which will cause Intel PT
decoder to set the mispred flag on all branches.

Below is an example of using Intel PT with autofdo.  The example is
also added to the Intel PT documentation.  It requires autofdo
(https://github.com/google/autofdo) and gcc version 5.  The bubble
sort example is from the AutoFDO tutorial (https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/AutoFDO/Tutorial)
amended to take the number of elements as a parameter.

	$ gcc-5 -O3 sort.c -o sort_optimized
	$ ./sort_optimized 30000
	Bubble sorting array of 30000 elements
	2254 ms

	$ cat ~/.perfconfig
	[intel-pt]
		mispred-all

	$ perf record -e intel_pt//u ./sort 3000
	Bubble sorting array of 3000 elements
	58 ms
	[ perf record: Woken up 2 times to write data ]
	[ perf record: Captured and wrote 3.939 MB perf.data ]
	$ perf inject -i perf.data -o inj --itrace=i100usle --strip
	$ ./create_gcov --binary=./sort --profile=inj --gcov=sort.gcov -gcov_version=1
	$ gcc-5 -O3 -fauto-profile=sort.gcov sort.c -o sort_autofdo
	$ ./sort_autofdo 30000
	Bubble sorting array of 30000 elements
	2155 ms

Note there is currently no advantage to using Intel PT instead of LBR,
but that may change in the future if greater use is made of the data.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1443186956-18718-26-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2015-09-28 17:21:00 -03:00
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arch tools include: Add basic atomic.h implementation from the kernel sources 2015-05-08 16:11:05 -03:00
build tools build: Build fixdep helper from perf and basic libs 2015-09-28 15:50:55 -03:00
cgroup
firewire
hv tools: hv: add a python script lsvmbus to list VMBus devices 2015-08-05 11:44:29 -07:00
iio iio: lsiio: fix error code handling error 2015-08-12 19:26:22 +01:00
include tools: Add err.h with ERR_PTR PTR_ERR interface 2015-09-15 09:48:32 -03:00
laptop/freefall Move freefall program from Documentation/ to tools/ 2015-06-08 16:42:07 -06:00
lguest tools/lguest: Clean up include dir 2015-08-26 06:12:35 +02:00
lib tools build: Build fixdep helper from perf and basic libs 2015-09-28 15:50:55 -03:00
net bpf_jit_disasm: also support reading jit dump from file 2015-07-31 15:13:14 -07:00
nfsd
perf perf intel-pt: Add mispred-all config option to aid use with autofdo 2015-09-28 17:21:00 -03:00
power Power management and ACPI material for v4.3-rc1 2015-09-01 19:45:46 -07:00
scripts
testing membarrier: clean up selftest 2015-09-22 15:09:53 -07:00
thermal/tmon tools/thermal: tmon: fixed the 'make install' command 2015-05-09 13:36:58 +08:00
time
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virtio tools/virtio: propagate V=X to kernel build 2015-09-16 12:48:07 +03:00
vm tools vm: Fix build due to removal of tools/lib/api/fs/debugfs.h 2015-09-22 22:42:39 -03:00
Makefile Staging driver patches for 4.2-rc1 2015-06-26 15:46:08 -07:00