Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752354Ab3IUGmk (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Sep 2013 02:42:40 -0400 Received: from e28smtp04.in.ibm.com ([122.248.162.4]:44020 "EHLO e28smtp04.in.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752071Ab3IUGmj (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Sep 2013 02:42:39 -0400 Message-ID: <523D3FA2.2070209@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2013 12:11:38 +0530 From: Anshuman Khandual User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/17.0 Thunderbird/17.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Stephane Eranian CC: Sukadev Bhattiprolu , LKML , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , Linux PPC dev , ellerman@au1.ibm.com, michael.neuling@au1.ibm.com Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 0/6] perf: New conditional branch filter References: <1377836690-32710-1-git-send-email-khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-TM-AS-MML: No X-Content-Scanned: Fidelis XPS MAILER x-cbid: 13092106-5564-0000-0000-000009D1597A Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1197 Lines: 32 On 08/30/2013 05:18 PM, Stephane Eranian wrote: > 2013/8/30 Anshuman Khandual >> > >> > This patchset is the re-spin of the original branch stack sampling >> > patchset which introduced new PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_COND filter. This patchset >> > also enables SW based branch filtering support for PPC64 platforms which have >> > branch stack sampling support. With this new enablement, the branch filter support >> > for PPC64 platforms have been extended to include all these combinations discussed >> > below with a sample test application program. >> > >> > > I am trying to understand which HW has support for capturing the > branches: PPC7 or PPC8. > Then it seems you're saying that only PPC8 has the filtering support. > On PPC7 you use the > SW filter. Did I get this right? > > I will look at the patch set. > Hey Stephane, Just wondering if you got a chance to go though the patchset ? Regards Anshuman -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/