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Macro fusion merges two instructions to a single micro-op. Intel core platform performs this hardware optimization under limited circumstances. For example, CMP + JCC can be "fused" and executed /retired together. While with sampling this can result in the sample sometimes being on the JCC and sometimes on the CMP. So for the fused instruction pair, they could be considered together. On Nehalem, fused instruction pairs: cmp/test + jcc. On other new CPU: cmp/test/add/sub/and/inc/dec + jcc. This patch adds an x86-specific function which checks if 2 instructions are in a "fused" pair. For non-x86 arch, the function is just NULL. Changelog: v4: Move the CPU model checking to symbol__disassemble and save the CPU family/model in arch structure. It avoids checking every time when jump arrow printed. v3: Add checking for Nehalem (CMP, TEST). For other newer Intel CPUs just check it by default (CMP, TEST, ADD, SUB, AND, INC, DEC). v2: Remove the original weak function. Arnaldo points out that doing it as a weak function that will be overridden by the host arch doesn't work. So now it's implemented as an arch-specific function. Committer fix: Do not access evsel->evlist->env->cpuid, ->env can be null, introduce perf_evsel__env_cpuid(), just like perf_evsel__env_arch(), also used in this function call. The original patch was segfaulting 'perf top' + annotation. But this essentially disables this fused instructions augmentation in 'perf top', the right thing is to get the cpuid from the running kernel, left for a later patch tho. Signed-off-by: Yao Jin <yao.jin@linux.intel.com> Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1499403995-19857-2-git-send-email-yao.jin@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> |
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Linux kernel ============ This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.