perf record: Add ability to sample call branches

This patch add a new branch type sampling filter to perf record.
It is named 'call' and maps to PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_CALL. It samples
direct call branches only, unlike 'any_call' which includes indirect
calls as well.

 $ perf record -j call -e cycles .....

The man page is updated accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
Cc: David Ahern <[email protected]>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: Vince Weaver <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
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Stephane Eranian 2015-10-13 09:09:11 +02:00 • committed by Ingo Molnar
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@ -236,6 +236,7 @@ following filters are defined:
- any_call: any function call or system call
- any_ret: any function return or system call return
- ind_call: any indirect branch
- call: direct calls, including far (to/from kernel) calls
- u: only when the branch target is at the user level
- k: only when the branch target is in the kernel
- hv: only when the target is at the hypervisor level

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@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ static const struct branch_mode branch_modes[] = {
BRANCH_OPT("no_tx", PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_NO_TX),
BRANCH_OPT("cond", PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_COND),
BRANCH_OPT("ind_jmp", PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_IND_JUMP),
BRANCH_OPT("call", PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_CALL),
BRANCH_END
};