perf record: Add support for sampling indirect jumps
This patch adds a new branch sampling type support for indirect jumps: perf record -j ind_jmp ....... It enables analysis of indirect jumps targets. It requires kernel and possibly hardware support to operate correctly. Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> [ Fixup against: f00898f4 (perf tools: Move branch option parsing to own file) ] Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: acme@redhat.com Cc: dsahern@gmail.com Cc: jolsa@redhat.com Cc: kan.liang@intel.com Cc: namhyung@kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1431637800-31061-4-git-send-email-eranian@google.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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