perf, x86: Add PEBS infrastructure

This patch implements support for Intel Precise Event Based Sampling,
which is an alternative counter mode in which the counter triggers a
hardware assist to collect information on events. The hardware assist
takes a trap like snapshot of a subset of the machine registers.

This data is written to the Intel Debug-Store, which can be programmed
with a data threshold at which to raise a PMI.

With the PEBS hardware assist being trap like, the reported IP is always
one instruction after the actual instruction that triggered the event.

This implements a simple PEBS model that always takes a single PEBS event
at a time. This is done so that the interaction with the rest of the
system is as expected (freq adjust, period randomization, lbr,
callchains, etc.).

It adds an ABI element: perf_event_attr::precise, which indicates that we
wish to use this (constrained, but precise) mode.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>
Cc: paulus@samba.org
Cc: eranian@google.com
Cc: robert.richter@amd.com
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
LKML-Reference: <20100304140100.392111285@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This commit is contained in:
Peter Zijlstra
2010-03-02 19:52:12 +01:00
committed by Ingo Molnar
parent d4944a0666
commit ca037701a0
4 changed files with 671 additions and 262 deletions

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@ -203,8 +203,9 @@ struct perf_event_attr {
enable_on_exec : 1, /* next exec enables */
task : 1, /* trace fork/exit */
watermark : 1, /* wakeup_watermark */
precise : 1, /* OoO invariant counter */
__reserved_1 : 49;
__reserved_1 : 48;
union {
__u32 wakeup_events; /* wakeup every n events */