This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
perf: Add irq and exception return branch types
to the 5.15-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
perf-add-irq-and-exception-return-branch-types.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.15 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit dabd4a12a648ce114c7d936bdb479201ad3cb043
Author: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@xxxxxxx>
Date: Thu Feb 24 11:06:54 2022 +0530
perf: Add irq and exception return branch types
[ Upstream commit cedd3614e5d9c80908099c19f8716714ce0610b1 ]
This expands generic branch type classification by adding two more entries
there in i.e irq and exception return. Also updates the x86 implementation
to process X86_BR_IRET and X86_BR_IRQ records as appropriate. This changes
branch types reported to user space on x86 platform but it should not be a
problem. The possible scenarios and impacts are enumerated here.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1645681014-3346-1-git-send-email-anshuman.khandual@xxxxxxx
Stable-dep-of: e53899771a02 ("perf/x86/lbr: Filter vsyscall addresses")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/arch/x86/events/intel/lbr.c b/arch/x86/events/intel/lbr.c
index b3f92255cbd2d..bc3e40184719f 100644
--- a/arch/x86/events/intel/lbr.c
+++ b/arch/x86/events/intel/lbr.c
@@ -1352,10 +1352,10 @@ static int branch_map[X86_BR_TYPE_MAP_MAX] = {
PERF_BR_SYSCALL, /* X86_BR_SYSCALL */
PERF_BR_SYSRET, /* X86_BR_SYSRET */
PERF_BR_UNKNOWN, /* X86_BR_INT */
- PERF_BR_UNKNOWN, /* X86_BR_IRET */
+ PERF_BR_ERET, /* X86_BR_IRET */
PERF_BR_COND, /* X86_BR_JCC */
PERF_BR_UNCOND, /* X86_BR_JMP */
- PERF_BR_UNKNOWN, /* X86_BR_IRQ */
+ PERF_BR_IRQ, /* X86_BR_IRQ */
PERF_BR_IND_CALL, /* X86_BR_IND_CALL */
PERF_BR_UNKNOWN, /* X86_BR_ABORT */
PERF_BR_UNKNOWN, /* X86_BR_IN_TX */
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h b/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h
index f92880a15645a..a7fb8d2b77096 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h
@@ -251,6 +251,8 @@ enum {
PERF_BR_SYSRET = 8, /* syscall return */
PERF_BR_COND_CALL = 9, /* conditional function call */
PERF_BR_COND_RET = 10, /* conditional function return */
+ PERF_BR_ERET = 11, /* exception return */
+ PERF_BR_IRQ = 12, /* irq */
PERF_BR_MAX,
};
diff --git a/tools/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h b/tools/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h
index f92880a15645a..a7fb8d2b77096 100644
--- a/tools/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h
+++ b/tools/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h
@@ -251,6 +251,8 @@ enum {
PERF_BR_SYSRET = 8, /* syscall return */
PERF_BR_COND_CALL = 9, /* conditional function call */
PERF_BR_COND_RET = 10, /* conditional function return */
+ PERF_BR_ERET = 11, /* exception return */
+ PERF_BR_IRQ = 12, /* irq */
PERF_BR_MAX,
};
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/branch.c b/tools/perf/util/branch.c
index 2285b1eb3128d..a9a909db8cc7f 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/branch.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/branch.c
@@ -49,7 +49,9 @@ const char *branch_type_name(int type)
"SYSCALL",
"SYSRET",
"COND_CALL",
- "COND_RET"
+ "COND_RET",
+ "ERET",
+ "IRQ"
};
if (type >= 0 && type < PERF_BR_MAX)
