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    perf/x86/amd/lbr: Use freeze based on availability · 598c2faf
    Sandipan Das authored
    Currently, the LBR code assumes that LBR Freeze is supported on all processors
    when X86_FEATURE_AMD_LBR_V2 is available i.e. CPUID leaf 0x80000022[EAX]
    bit 1 is set. This is incorrect as the availability of the feature is
    additionally dependent on CPUID leaf 0x80000022[EAX] bit 2 being set,
    which may not be set for all Zen 4 processors.
    
    Define a new feature bit for LBR and PMC freeze and set the freeze enable bit
    (FLBRI) in DebugCtl (MSR 0x1d9) conditionally.
    
    It should still be possible to use LBR without freeze for profile-guided
    optimization of user programs by using an user-only branch filter during
    profiling. When the user-only filter is enabled, branches are no longer
    recorded after the transition to CPL 0 upon PMI arrival. When branch
    entries are read in the PMI handler, the branch stack does not change.
    
    E.g.
    
      $ perf record -j any,u -e ex_ret_brn_tkn ./workload
    
    Since the feature bit is visible under flags in /proc/cpuinfo, it can be
    used to determine the feasibility of use-cases which require LBR Freeze
    to be supported by the hardware such as profile-guided optimization of
    kernels.
    
    Fixes: ca5b7c0d ("perf/x86/amd/lbr: Add LbrExtV2 branch record support")
    Signed-off-by: default avatarSandipan Das <sandipan.das@amd.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
    Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/69a453c97cfd11c6f2584b19f937fe6df741510f.1711091584.git.sandipan.das@amd.com
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