From: Robert Richter on
This patch series introduces model specific events and impments AMD
IBS (Instruction Based Sampling) for perf_events.

IBS is documented here:

BIOS and Kernel Developer's Guide (BKDG) For AMD Family 10h Processors
http://support.amd.com/us/Processor_TechDocs/31116.pdf

AMD64 Architecture Programmer's Manual Volume 2: System Programming
http://support.amd.com/us/Processor_TechDocs/24593.pdf

The general approach is to introduce a flag to mark an event as model
specific. With that flag set a model specific ibs (raw) config value
can be passed to the pmu for setup. When there are ibs samples
available, it is sent back as a raw data sample to the userland. So we
have a raw config value and raw sampling data. This requires the
userland to setup ibs and further extract and process sampling data.

Patches 1-8 rework and refactor the code to prepare the ibs
implementation. This is done in patches 9-12.

I will add ibs example code to libpfm4.

-Robert


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