Ideally your commit subject would contain a verb, preferably in the present
tense.
I think simply "perf: Add PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_COND" would be clearer.
On Wed, 2013-16-10 at 06:56:48 UTC, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
> POWER8 PMU based BHRB supports filtering for conditional branches.
> This patch introduces new branch filter PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_COND which
> will extend the existing perf ABI. Other architectures can provide
> this functionality with either HW filtering support (if present) or
> with SW filtering of instructions.
>
> Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <khand...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Reviewed-by: Stephane Eranian <eran...@google.com>
> ---
> include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h | 3 ++-
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h b/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h
> index 0b1df41..5da52b6 100644
> --- a/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h
> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h
> @@ -160,8 +160,9 @@ enum perf_branch_sample_type {
> PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_ABORT_TX = 1U << 7, /* transaction aborts */
> PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_IN_TX = 1U << 8, /* in transaction */
> PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_NO_TX = 1U << 9, /* not in transaction */
> + PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_COND = 1U << 10, /* conditional branches */
>
> - PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_MAX = 1U << 10, /* non-ABI */
> + PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_MAX = 1U << 11, /* non-ABI */
> };
This no longer applies against Linus' tree, you'll need to rebase it.
cheers
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