Charlie Hewett

Ahmad Yasin

Beeman C Strong

Jonathan D Combs

Asavari Paranjape

Patrick Konsor

Vidisha Chirra

Michael Chynoweth

Systems, methods, and apparatuses relating to circuitry to implement precise last branch record event logging in a processor are described. In one embodiment, a hardware processor core includes an execution circuit to execute instructions, a retirement circuit to retire executed instructions, a status register, and a last branch record circuit to, in response to retirement by the retirement circuit of a first taken branch instruction, start a cycle timer and a performance monitoring event counter, and in response to retirement by the retirement circuit of a second taken branch instruction, that is a next taken branch instruction in program order after the first taken branch instruction, write values from the cycle timer and the performance monitoring event counter into a first entry in the status register and clear the values from the cycle timer and the performance monitoring event counter.

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