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| author | Pratik Patel <pratikp@codeaurora.org> | 2016-05-03 11:33:40 -0600 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2016-05-03 14:59:30 -0700 |
| commit | 237483aa5cf43105d148d3f03b29eed47c3e6cf9 (patch) | |
| tree | 144f173488a4283d36dc92ca2679011803081c8a /Documentation/trace | |
| parent | 9eb933130df2f8e67aba4f76565fe6604150a542 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-237483aa5cf43105d148d3f03b29eed47c3e6cf9.tar.gz lwn-237483aa5cf43105d148d3f03b29eed47c3e6cf9.zip | |
coresight: stm: adding driver for CoreSight STM component
This driver adds support for the STM CoreSight IP block, allowing any
system compoment (HW or SW) to log and aggregate messages via a
single entity.
The CoreSight STM exposes an application defined number of channels
called stimulus port. Configuration is done using entries in sysfs
and channels made available to userspace via configfs.
Signed-off-by: Pratik Patel <pratikp@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Michael Williams <michael.williams@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Chunyan Zhang <zhang.chunyan@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/trace')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/trace/coresight.txt | 37 |
1 files changed, 35 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/trace/coresight.txt b/Documentation/trace/coresight.txt index 0a5c3290e732..a33c88cd5d1d 100644 --- a/Documentation/trace/coresight.txt +++ b/Documentation/trace/coresight.txt @@ -190,8 +190,8 @@ expected to be accessed and controlled using those entries. Last but not least, "struct module *owner" is expected to be set to reflect the information carried in "THIS_MODULE". -How to use ----------- +How to use the tracer modules +----------------------------- Before trace collection can start, a coresight sink needs to be identify. There is no limit on the amount of sinks (nor sources) that can be enabled at @@ -297,3 +297,36 @@ Info Tracing enabled Instruction 13570831 0x8026B584 E28DD00C false ADD sp,sp,#0xc Instruction 0 0x8026B588 E8BD8000 true LDM sp!,{pc} Timestamp Timestamp: 17107041535 + +How to use the STM module +------------------------- + +Using the System Trace Macrocell module is the same as the tracers - the only +difference is that clients are driving the trace capture rather +than the program flow through the code. + +As with any other CoreSight component, specifics about the STM tracer can be +found in sysfs with more information on each entry being found in [1]: + +root@genericarmv8:~# ls /sys/bus/coresight/devices/20100000.stm +enable_source hwevent_select port_enable subsystem uevent +hwevent_enable mgmt port_select traceid +root@genericarmv8:~# + +Like any other source a sink needs to be identified and the STM enabled before +being used: + +root@genericarmv8:~# echo 1 > /sys/bus/coresight/devices/20010000.etf/enable_sink +root@genericarmv8:~# echo 1 > /sys/bus/coresight/devices/20100000.stm/enable_source + +From there user space applications can request and use channels using the devfs +interface provided for that purpose by the generic STM API: + +root@genericarmv8:~# ls -l /dev/20100000.stm +crw------- 1 root root 10, 61 Jan 3 18:11 /dev/20100000.stm +root@genericarmv8:~# + +Details on how to use the generic STM API can be found here [2]. + +[1]. Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-coresight-devices-stm +[2]. Documentation/trace/stm.txt |