Re: [PATCH v6 bpf-next 1/3] perf: enable branch record for software events

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On Fri, Sep 10, 2021 at 08:40:27PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 10, 2021 at 06:27:36PM +0000, Song Liu wrote:
> 
> > This works great and saves 3 entries! We have the following now:
> 
> Yay!
> 
> > ID: 0 from bpf_get_branch_snapshot+18 to intel_pmu_snapshot_branch_stack+0
> 
> is unavoidable, we need to end up in intel_pmu_snapshot_branch_stack()
> eventually.
> 
> > ID: 1 from __brk_limit+477143934 to bpf_get_branch_snapshot+0
> 
> could be elided by having the JIT emit the call to
> intel_pmu_snapshot_branch_stack directly, instead of laundering it
> through that helper I suppose.
> 
> > ID: 2 from __brk_limit+477192263 to __brk_limit+477143880  # trampoline 
> > ID: 3 from __bpf_prog_enter+34 to __brk_limit+477192251
> 
> -ENOCLUE
> 
> > ID: 4 from migrate_disable+60 to __bpf_prog_enter+9
> > ID: 5 from __bpf_prog_enter+4 to migrate_disable+0
> 
> I suppose we can reduce that to a single branch if we inline
> migrate_disable() here, that thing unfortunately needs one branch
> itself.

Oooh, since we put local_irq_save/restore() in
intel_pmu_snapshot_branch_stack(), we no longer need to be after
migrate_disable(). You could go back to placing it earlier!



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