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With branch fusion and other optimizations, branch sampling hardware in
some processors can report a branch from address that points to an
instruction preceding the actual branch by several bytes.
In such cases, the classifier cannot determine the branch type which leads
to failures such as with the recently added test from commit b55878c90a
("perf test: Add test for branch stack sampling"). Branch information is
also easier to consume and annotate if branch from addresses always point
to branch instructions.
Add a new variant of the branch classifier that can account for instruction
fusion. If fusion is expected and the current branch from address does not
point to a branch instruction, it attempts to find the first branch within
the next (MAX_INSN_SIZE - 1) bytes and if found, additionally provides the
offset between the reported branch from address and the address of the
expected branch instruction.
Signed-off-by: Sandipan Das <sandipan.das@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/b6bb0abaa8a54c0b6d716344700ee11a1793d709.1660211399.git.sandipan.das@amd.com
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.