linux/tools
Adrian Hunter f14445ee72 perf intel-pt: Support generating branch stack
Add support for generating branch stack context for PT samples.  The
decoder reports a configurable number of branches as branch context for
each sample. Internally it keeps track of them by using a simple sliding
window.  We also flush the last branch buffer on each sample to avoid
overlapping intervals.

This is useful for:

- Reporting accurate basic block edge frequencies through the perf
  report branch view
- Using with --branch-history to get the wider context of samples
- Other users of LBRs

Also the Documentation is updated.

Examples:

	Record with Intel PT:

		perf record -e intel_pt//u ls

	Branch stacks are used by default if synthesized so:

		perf report --itrace=ile

	is the same as:

		perf report --itrace=ile -b

	Branch history can be requested also:

		perf report --itrace=igle --branch-history

Based-on-patch-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1443186956-18718-15-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2015-09-28 16:59:14 -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: Support generating branch stack 2015-09-28 16:59:14 -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
usb
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