1. 02 4月, 2015 1 次提交
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      perf/x86/intel/bts: Add BTS PMU driver · 8062382c
      Alexander Shishkin 提交于
      Add support for Branch Trace Store (BTS) via kernel perf event infrastructure.
      The difference with the existing implementation of BTS support is that this
      one is a separate PMU that exports events' trace buffers to userspace by means
      of AUX area of the perf buffer, which is zero-copy mapped into userspace.
      
      The immediate benefit is that the buffer size can be much bigger, resulting in
      fewer interrupts and no kernel side copying is involved and little to no trace
      data loss. Also, kernel code can be traced with this driver.
      
      The old way of collecting BTS traces still works.
      Signed-off-by: NAlexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
      Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
      Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
      Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
      Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
      Cc: Kaixu Xia <kaixu.xia@linaro.org>
      Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
      Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      Cc: Robert Richter <rric@kernel.org>
      Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
      Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Cc: acme@infradead.org
      Cc: adrian.hunter@intel.com
      Cc: kan.liang@intel.com
      Cc: markus.t.metzger@intel.com
      Cc: mathieu.poirier@linaro.org
      Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1422614435-114702-1-git-send-email-alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.comSigned-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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