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Branch records are a CPU feature that can be configured to record certain branches that are taken during code execution. This data is particularly interesting for profile guided optimizations. perf has had branch record support for a while but the data collection can be a bit coarse grained. We (Facebook) have seen in experiments that associating metadata with branch records can improve results (after postprocessing). We generally use bpf_probe_read_*() to get metadata out of userspace. That's why bpf support for branch records is useful. Aside from this particular use case, having branch data available to bpf progs can be useful to get stack traces out of userspace applications that omit frame pointers. Signed-off-by: Daniel Xu <dxu@dxuuu.xyz> Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200218030432.4600-2-dxu@dxuuu.xyz
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
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.