arm64/perf: Add PERF_ATTACH_TASK_DATA to events with has_branch_stack()
Short running processes i.e those getting very small cpu run time each time when they get scheduled on, might not accumulate much branch records before a PMU IRQ really happens. This increases possibility, for such processes to loose much of its branch records, while being scheduled in-out of various cpus on the system. There is a need to save all occurred branch records during the cpu run time while the process gets scheduled out. It requires an event context specific buffer for such storage. This adds PERF_ATTACH_TASK_DATA flag unconditionally, for all branch stack sampling events, which would allocate task_ctx_data during its event init. This also creates a platform specific task_ctx_data kmem cache which will serve such allocation requests. This adds a new structure 'arm64_perf_task_context' which encapsulates brbe register set for maximum possible BRBE entries on the HW along with a valid records tracking element. Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Tested-by:James Clark <james.clark@arm.com> Signed-off-by:
Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
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