Date: Thu, 14 May 2015 16:04:00 -0700
From: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
To: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, acme@redhat.com, peterz@infradead.org,
        mingo@elte.hu, jolsa@redhat.com, namhyung@kernel.org,
        kan.liang@intel.com, dsahern@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 0/3] perf: add indirect jump filtering support
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On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 11:09:57PM +0200, Stephane Eranian wrote:
> This short patch series adds a new filter to the branch stack
> sampling feature. The new filter enables sampling only indirect
> jumps. For each the source and target are captured.
> 
> The new branch_sample_type flag is: PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_IND_JUMP 
> 
> The series provides full support in the perf record tool:
> 
>   $ perf record -j ind_jmp ...
> 
> On Intel x86 processors, the filter is implemented using the
> LBR hw filter.
> 
> This filter is useful to study targets of indirect jumps.

Patches look all good to me. 
Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
-Andi
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