perf/x86/intel/bts: Add BTS PMU driver
Add support for Branch Trace Store (BTS) via kernel perf event infrastructure. The difference with the existing implementation of BTS support is that this one is a separate PMU that exports events' trace buffers to userspace by means of AUX area of the perf buffer, which is zero-copy mapped into userspace. The immediate benefit is that the buffer size can be much bigger, resulting in fewer interrupts and no kernel side copying is involved and little to no trace data loss. Also, kernel code can be traced with this driver. The old way of collecting BTS traces still works. Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Kaixu Xia <kaixu.xia@linaro.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Robert Richter <rric@kernel.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: acme@infradead.org Cc: adrian.hunter@intel.com Cc: kan.liang@intel.com Cc: markus.t.metzger@intel.com Cc: mathieu.poirier@linaro.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1422614435-114702-1-git-send-email-alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.comSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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