perf: Disable PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_* when not supported

PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_* is disabled for:

 - SW events (sw counters, tracepoints)
 - HW breakpoints
 - ALL but Intel x86 architecture
 - AMD64 processors

Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1328826068-11713-10-git-send-email-eranian@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/sparc/kernel/perf_event.c b/arch/sparc/kernel/perf_event.c
index 614da624330c..8e16a4a21582 100644
--- a/arch/sparc/kernel/perf_event.c
+++ b/arch/sparc/kernel/perf_event.c
@@ -1105,6 +1105,10 @@ static int sparc_pmu_event_init(struct perf_event *event)
         if (atomic_read(&nmi_active) < 0)
                 return -ENODEV;
 
+        /* does not support taken branch sampling */
+        if (has_branch_stack(event))
+                return -EOPNOTSUPP;
+
         switch (attr->type) {
         case PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE:
                 if (attr->config >= sparc_pmu->max_events)