x86, perf_counter, bts: Add BTS support to perfcounters

Implement a performance counter with:

    attr.type           = PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE
    attr.config         = PERF_COUNT_HW_BRANCH_INSTRUCTIONS
    attr.sample_period  = 1

Using branch trace store (BTS) on x86 hardware, if available.

The from and to address for each branch can be sampled using:

    PERF_SAMPLE_IP      for the from address
    PERF_SAMPLE_ADDR    for the to address

[ v2: address review feedback, fix bugs ]

Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/perf_counter.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/perf_counter.h
index fa64e401589d..e7b7c938ae27 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/perf_counter.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/perf_counter.h
@@ -84,6 +84,16 @@ union cpuid10_edx {
 #define MSR_ARCH_PERFMON_FIXED_CTR2			0x30b
 #define X86_PMC_IDX_FIXED_BUS_CYCLES			(X86_PMC_IDX_FIXED + 2)
 
+/*
+ * We model BTS tracing as another fixed-mode PMC.
+ *
+ * We choose a value in the middle of the fixed counter range, since lower
+ * values are used by actual fixed counters and higher values are used
+ * to indicate other overflow conditions in the PERF_GLOBAL_STATUS msr.
+ */
+#define X86_PMC_IDX_FIXED_BTS				(X86_PMC_IDX_FIXED + 16)
+
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_PERF_COUNTERS
 extern void init_hw_perf_counters(void);
 extern void perf_counters_lapic_init(void);