perf record: Add support for sampling indirect jumps
authorStephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Thu, 14 May 2015 21:10:00 +0000 (23:10 +0200)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Sun, 7 Jun 2015 14:08:31 +0000 (16:08 +0200)
commit5b68164d6a1fdbe02b30bd777d1f686c6d901f28
treec478f71bfb2e0dbdce6523dea40c948eb38b22d4
parent7b74cfb2ecb4d56a25c89cdb561e4926db85feb1
perf record: Add support for sampling indirect jumps

This patch adds a new branch sampling type support for indirect jumps:

  perf record -j ind_jmp .......

It enables analysis of indirect jumps targets. It requires kernel and
possibly hardware support to operate correctly.

Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
[ Fixup against: f00898f4e20b (perf tools: Move branch option parsing to own file) ]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: acme@redhat.com
Cc: dsahern@gmail.com
Cc: jolsa@redhat.com
Cc: kan.liang@intel.com
Cc: namhyung@kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1431637800-31061-4-git-send-email-eranian@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
tools/perf/util/parse-branch-options.c