From: Jin Yao <[email protected]> The option indicates the kernel to save branch type during sampling.
One example: perf record -g --branch-filter any,save_type <command> Signed-off-by: Yao Jin <[email protected]> Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <[email protected]> Cc: Andi Kleen <[email protected]> Cc: Kan Liang <[email protected]> Cc: Michael Ellerman <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]> --- tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt | 1 + tools/perf/util/parse-branch-options.c | 1 + 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt index b0e9e921d534..9bdea047c5db 100644 --- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt +++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt @@ -332,6 +332,7 @@ following filters are defined: - no_tx: only when the target is not in a hardware transaction - abort_tx: only when the target is a hardware transaction abort - cond: conditional branches + - save_type: save branch type during sampling in case binary is not available later + The option requires at least one branch type among any, any_call, any_ret, ind_call, cond. diff --git a/tools/perf/util/parse-branch-options.c b/tools/perf/util/parse-branch-options.c index 38fd11504015..e71fb5f31e84 100644 --- a/tools/perf/util/parse-branch-options.c +++ b/tools/perf/util/parse-branch-options.c @@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ static const struct branch_mode branch_modes[] = { BRANCH_OPT("cond", PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_COND), BRANCH_OPT("ind_jmp", PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_IND_JUMP), BRANCH_OPT("call", PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_CALL), + BRANCH_OPT("save_type", PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_TYPE_SAVE), BRANCH_END }; -- 2.9.4
