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Andi Kleen committed 50eab8f6ecd
perf/x86/intel/lbr: Add support for LBRv5 Add support for the new LBRv5 format used on Intel Skylake CPUs. The flags for mispredict, abort, in_tx etc. moved to range of separate LBR_INFO_* MSRs. Teach the LBR code to read those. The original LBR registers stay the same, except they have full sign extension now. LBR_INFO also reports a cycle count to the last branch. Report the cycle information using the new "cycles" branch_info output field. In addition we have to context switch and clear the new INFO MSRs to avoid any information leaks. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: eranian@google.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1431285767-27027-6-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>