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perf: Disable PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_* when not supported

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PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_* is disabled for:

 - SW events (sw counters, tracepoints)
 - HW breakpoints
 - ALL but Intel x86 architecture
 - AMD64 processors

Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1328826068-11713-10-git-send-email-eranian@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Stephane Eranian 2012-02-09 23:20:59 +01:00 • committed by Ingo Molnar
parent 3e702ff6d1
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kernel/events/hw_breakpoint.c
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@ -581,6 +581,12 @@ static int hw_breakpoint_event_init(struct perf_event *bp)
if (bp->attr.type != PERF_TYPE_BREAKPOINT)
return -ENOENT;
/*
* no branch sampling for breakpoint events
*/
if (has_branch_stack(bp))
return -EOPNOTSUPP;
err = register_perf_hw_breakpoint(bp);
if (err)
return err;