Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934258AbcJUUz0 (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Oct 2016 16:55:26 -0400 Received: from mail-it0-f66.google.com ([209.85.214.66]:35946 "EHLO mail-it0-f66.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933936AbcJUUzY (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Oct 2016 16:55:24 -0400 From: Vince Weaver X-Google-Original-From: Vince Weaver Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2016 16:55:21 -0400 (EDT) X-X-Sender: vince@macbook-air To: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" cc: linux-man@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Stephane Eranian , Peter Zijlstra , Ingo Molnar , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Subject: [patch] perf_event_open.2: add PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_CALL branch sample type Message-ID: User-Agent: Alpine 2.20 (DEB 67 2015-01-07) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1029 Lines: 35 Linux 4.4 (c229bf9dc179d2023e185c0f705bdf68484c1e73) added the PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_CALL branch sample type, which confusingly is a direct-call only subset of what PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_ANY_CALL provides. Signed-off-by: Vince Weaver diff --git a/man2/perf_event_open.2 b/man2/perf_event_open.2 index fade28c..8d985b3 100644 --- a/man2/perf_event_open.2 +++ b/man2/perf_event_open.2 @@ -1256,14 +1256,18 @@ following bits must be set. Any branch type. .TP .B PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_ANY_CALL -Any call branch. -.TP -.B PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_ANY_RETURN -Any return branch. +Any call branch (includes direct calls, indirect calls, and far jumps). .TP .B PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_IND_CALL Indirect calls. .TP +.BR PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_CALL " (since Linux 4.4)" +.\" commit c229bf9dc179d2023e185c0f705bdf68484c1e73 +Direct calls. +.TP +.B PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_ANY_RETURN +Any return branch. +.TP .BR PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_IND_JUMP " (since Linux 4.2)" .\" commit c9fdfa14c3792c0160849c484e83aa57afd80ccc Indirect jumps.