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- Coresight CPU Debug Module
- ==========================
-
- Author: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linaro.org>
- Date: April 5th, 2017
-
-Introduction
-------------
-
-Coresight CPU debug module is defined in ARMv8-a architecture reference manual
-(ARM DDI 0487A.k) Chapter 'Part H: External debug', the CPU can integrate
-debug module and it is mainly used for two modes: self-hosted debug and
-external debug. Usually the external debug mode is well known as the external
-debugger connects with SoC from JTAG port; on the other hand the program can
-explore debugging method which rely on self-hosted debug mode, this document
-is to focus on this part.
-
-The debug module provides sample-based profiling extension, which can be used
-to sample CPU program counter, secure state and exception level, etc; usually
-every CPU has one dedicated debug module to be connected. Based on self-hosted
-debug mechanism, Linux kernel can access these related registers from mmio
-region when the kernel panic happens. The callback notifier for kernel panic
-will dump related registers for every CPU; finally this is good for assistant
-analysis for panic.
-
-
-Implementation
---------------
-
-- During driver registration, it uses EDDEVID and EDDEVID1 - two device ID
- registers to decide if sample-based profiling is implemented or not. On some
- platforms this hardware feature is fully or partially implemented; and if
- this feature is not supported then registration will fail.
-
-- At the time this documentation was written, the debug driver mainly relies on
- information gathered by the kernel panic callback notifier from three
- sampling registers: EDPCSR, EDVIDSR and EDCIDSR: from EDPCSR we can get
- program counter; EDVIDSR has information for secure state, exception level,
- bit width, etc; EDCIDSR is context ID value which contains the sampled value
- of CONTEXTIDR_EL1.
-
-- The driver supports a CPU running in either AArch64 or AArch32 mode. The
- registers naming convention is a bit different between them, AArch64 uses
- 'ED' for register prefix (ARM DDI 0487A.k, chapter H9.1) and AArch32 uses
- 'DBG' as prefix (ARM DDI 0487A.k, chapter G5.1). The driver is unified to
- use AArch64 naming convention.
-
-- ARMv8-a (ARM DDI 0487A.k) and ARMv7-a (ARM DDI 0406C.b) have different
- register bits definition. So the driver consolidates two difference:
-
- If PCSROffset=0b0000, on ARMv8-a the feature of EDPCSR is not implemented;
- but ARMv7-a defines "PCSR samples are offset by a value that depends on the
- instruction set state". For ARMv7-a, the driver checks furthermore if CPU
- runs with ARM or thumb instruction set and calibrate PCSR value, the
- detailed description for offset is in ARMv7-a ARM (ARM DDI 0406C.b) chapter
- C11.11.34 "DBGPCSR, Program Counter Sampling Register".
-
- If PCSROffset=0b0010, ARMv8-a defines "EDPCSR implemented, and samples have
- no offset applied and do not sample the instruction set state in AArch32
- state". So on ARMv8 if EDDEVID1.PCSROffset is 0b0010 and the CPU operates
- in AArch32 state, EDPCSR is not sampled; when the CPU operates in AArch64
- state EDPCSR is sampled and no offset are applied.
-
-
-Clock and power domain
-----------------------
-
-Before accessing debug registers, we should ensure the clock and power domain
-have been enabled properly. In ARMv8-a ARM (ARM DDI 0487A.k) chapter 'H9.1
-Debug registers', the debug registers are spread into two domains: the debug
-domain and the CPU domain.
-
- +---------------+
- | |
- | |
- +----------+--+ |
- dbg_clock -->| |**| |<-- cpu_clock
- | Debug |**| CPU |
- dbg_power_domain -->| |**| |<-- cpu_power_domain
- +----------+--+ |
- | |
- | |
- +---------------+
-
-For debug domain, the user uses DT binding "clocks" and "power-domains" to
-specify the corresponding clock source and power supply for the debug logic.
-The driver calls the pm_runtime_{put|get} operations as needed to handle the
-debug power domain.
-
-For CPU domain, the different SoC designs have different power management
-schemes and finally this heavily impacts external debug module. So we can
-divide into below cases:
-
-- On systems with a sane power controller which can behave correctly with
- respect to CPU power domain, the CPU power domain can be controlled by
- register EDPRCR in driver. The driver firstly writes bit EDPRCR.COREPURQ
- to power up the CPU, and then writes bit EDPRCR.CORENPDRQ for emulation
- of CPU power down. As result, this can ensure the CPU power domain is
- powered on properly during the period when access debug related registers;
-
-- Some designs will power down an entire cluster if all CPUs on the cluster
- are powered down - including the parts of the debug registers that should
- remain powered in the debug power domain. The bits in EDPRCR are not
- respected in these cases, so these designs do not support debug over
- power down in the way that the CoreSight / Debug designers anticipated.
- This means that even checking EDPRSR has the potential to cause a bus hang
- if the target register is unpowered.
-
- In this case, accessing to the debug registers while they are not powered
- is a recipe for disaster; so we need preventing CPU low power states at boot
- time or when user enable module at the run time. Please see chapter
- "How to use the module" for detailed usage info for this.
-
-
-Device Tree Bindings
---------------------
-
-See Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/coresight-cpu-debug.txt for details.
-
-
-How to use the module
----------------------
-
-If you want to enable debugging functionality at boot time, you can add
-"coresight_cpu_debug.enable=1" to the kernel command line parameter.
-
-The driver also can work as module, so can enable the debugging when insmod
-module:
-# insmod coresight_cpu_debug.ko debug=1
-
-When boot time or insmod module you have not enabled the debugging, the driver
-uses the debugfs file system to provide a knob to dynamically enable or disable
-debugging:
-
-To enable it, write a '1' into /sys/kernel/debug/coresight_cpu_debug/enable:
-# echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/coresight_cpu_debug/enable
-
-To disable it, write a '0' into /sys/kernel/debug/coresight_cpu_debug/enable:
-# echo 0 > /sys/kernel/debug/coresight_cpu_debug/enable
-
-As explained in chapter "Clock and power domain", if you are working on one
-platform which has idle states to power off debug logic and the power
-controller cannot work well for the request from EDPRCR, then you should
-firstly constraint CPU idle states before enable CPU debugging feature; so can
-ensure the accessing to debug logic.
-
-If you want to limit idle states at boot time, you can use "nohlt" or
-"cpuidle.off=1" in the kernel command line.
-
-At the runtime you can disable idle states with below methods:
-
-It is possible to disable CPU idle states by way of the PM QoS
-subsystem, more specifically by using the "/dev/cpu_dma_latency"
-interface (see Documentation/power/pm_qos_interface.txt for more
-details). As specified in the PM QoS documentation the requested
-parameter will stay in effect until the file descriptor is released.
-For example:
-
-# exec 3<> /dev/cpu_dma_latency; echo 0 >&3
-...
-Do some work...
-...
-# exec 3<>-
-
-The same can also be done from an application program.
-
-Disable specific CPU's specific idle state from cpuidle sysfs (see
-Documentation/cpuidle/sysfs.txt):
-# echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu$cpu/cpuidle/state$state/disable
-
-
-Output format
--------------
-
-Here is an example of the debugging output format:
-
-ARM external debug module:
-coresight-cpu-debug 850000.debug: CPU[0]:
-coresight-cpu-debug 850000.debug: EDPRSR: 00000001 (Power:On DLK:Unlock)
-coresight-cpu-debug 850000.debug: EDPCSR: [<ffff00000808e9bc>] handle_IPI+0x174/0x1d8
-coresight-cpu-debug 850000.debug: EDCIDSR: 00000000
-coresight-cpu-debug 850000.debug: EDVIDSR: 90000000 (State:Non-secure Mode:EL1/0 Width:64bits VMID:0)
-coresight-cpu-debug 852000.debug: CPU[1]:
-coresight-cpu-debug 852000.debug: EDPRSR: 00000001 (Power:On DLK:Unlock)
-coresight-cpu-debug 852000.debug: EDPCSR: [<ffff0000087fab34>] debug_notifier_call+0x23c/0x358
-coresight-cpu-debug 852000.debug: EDCIDSR: 00000000
-coresight-cpu-debug 852000.debug: EDVIDSR: 90000000 (State:Non-secure Mode:EL1/0 Width:64bits VMID:0)
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- Coresight - HW Assisted Tracing on ARM
- ======================================
-
- Author: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org>
- Date: September 11th, 2014
-
-Introduction
-------------
-
-Coresight is an umbrella of technologies allowing for the debugging of ARM
-based SoC. It includes solutions for JTAG and HW assisted tracing. This
-document is concerned with the latter.
-
-HW assisted tracing is becoming increasingly useful when dealing with systems
-that have many SoCs and other components like GPU and DMA engines. ARM has
-developed a HW assisted tracing solution by means of different components, each
-being added to a design at synthesis time to cater to specific tracing needs.
-Components are generally categorised as source, link and sinks and are
-(usually) discovered using the AMBA bus.
-
-"Sources" generate a compressed stream representing the processor instruction
-path based on tracing scenarios as configured by users. From there the stream
-flows through the coresight system (via ATB bus) using links that are connecting
-the emanating source to a sink(s). Sinks serve as endpoints to the coresight
-implementation, either storing the compressed stream in a memory buffer or
-creating an interface to the outside world where data can be transferred to a
-host without fear of filling up the onboard coresight memory buffer.
-
-At typical coresight system would look like this:
-
- *****************************************************************
- **************************** AMBA AXI ****************************===||
- ***************************************************************** ||
- ^ ^ | ||
- | | * **
- 0000000 ::::: 0000000 ::::: ::::: @@@@@@@ ||||||||||||
- 0 CPU 0<-->: C : 0 CPU 0<-->: C : : C : @ STM @ || System ||
- |->0000000 : T : |->0000000 : T : : T :<--->@@@@@ || Memory ||
- | #######<-->: I : | #######<-->: I : : I : @@@<-| ||||||||||||
- | # ETM # ::::: | # PTM # ::::: ::::: @ |
- | ##### ^ ^ | ##### ^ ! ^ ! . | |||||||||
- | |->### | ! | |->### | ! | ! . | || DAP ||
- | | # | ! | | # | ! | ! . | |||||||||
- | | . | ! | | . | ! | ! . | | |
- | | . | ! | | . | ! | ! . | | *
- | | . | ! | | . | ! | ! . | | SWD/
- | | . | ! | | . | ! | ! . | | JTAG
- *****************************************************************<-|
- *************************** AMBA Debug APB ************************
- *****************************************************************
- | . ! . ! ! . |
- | . * . * * . |
- *****************************************************************
- ******************** Cross Trigger Matrix (CTM) *******************
- *****************************************************************
- | . ^ . . |
- | * ! * * |
- *****************************************************************
- ****************** AMBA Advanced Trace Bus (ATB) ******************
- *****************************************************************
- | ! =============== |
- | * ===== F =====<---------|
- | ::::::::: ==== U ====
- |-->:: CTI ::<!! === N ===
- | ::::::::: ! == N ==
- | ^ * == E ==
- | ! &&&&&&&&& IIIIIII == L ==
- |------>&& ETB &&<......II I =======
- | ! &&&&&&&&& II I .
- | ! I I .
- | ! I REP I<..........
- | ! I I
- | !!>&&&&&&&&& II I *Source: ARM ltd.
- |------>& TPIU &<......II I DAP = Debug Access Port
- &&&&&&&&& IIIIIII ETM = Embedded Trace Macrocell
- ; PTM = Program Trace Macrocell
- ; CTI = Cross Trigger Interface
- * ETB = Embedded Trace Buffer
- To trace port TPIU= Trace Port Interface Unit
- SWD = Serial Wire Debug
-
-While on target configuration of the components is done via the APB bus,
-all trace data are carried out-of-band on the ATB bus. The CTM provides
-a way to aggregate and distribute signals between CoreSight components.
-
-The coresight framework provides a central point to represent, configure and
-manage coresight devices on a platform. This first implementation centers on
-the basic tracing functionality, enabling components such ETM/PTM, funnel,
-replicator, TMC, TPIU and ETB. Future work will enable more
-intricate IP blocks such as STM and CTI.
-
-
-Acronyms and Classification
----------------------------
-
-Acronyms:
-
-PTM: Program Trace Macrocell
-ETM: Embedded Trace Macrocell
-STM: System trace Macrocell
-ETB: Embedded Trace Buffer
-ITM: Instrumentation Trace Macrocell
-TPIU: Trace Port Interface Unit
-TMC-ETR: Trace Memory Controller, configured as Embedded Trace Router
-TMC-ETF: Trace Memory Controller, configured as Embedded Trace FIFO
-CTI: Cross Trigger Interface
-
-Classification:
-
-Source:
- ETMv3.x ETMv4, PTMv1.0, PTMv1.1, STM, STM500, ITM
-Link:
- Funnel, replicator (intelligent or not), TMC-ETR
-Sinks:
- ETBv1.0, ETB1.1, TPIU, TMC-ETF
-Misc:
- CTI
-
-
-Device Tree Bindings
-----------------------
-
-See Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/coresight.txt for details.
-
-As of this writing drivers for ITM, STMs and CTIs are not provided but are
-expected to be added as the solution matures.
-
-
-Framework and implementation
-----------------------------
-
-The coresight framework provides a central point to represent, configure and
-manage coresight devices on a platform. Any coresight compliant device can
-register with the framework for as long as they use the right APIs:
-
-struct coresight_device *coresight_register(struct coresight_desc *desc);
-void coresight_unregister(struct coresight_device *csdev);
-
-The registering function is taking a "struct coresight_device *csdev" and
-register the device with the core framework. The unregister function takes
-a reference to a "struct coresight_device", obtained at registration time.
-
-If everything goes well during the registration process the new devices will
-show up under /sys/bus/coresight/devices, as showns here for a TC2 platform:
-
-root:~# ls /sys/bus/coresight/devices/
-replicator 20030000.tpiu 2201c000.ptm 2203c000.etm 2203e000.etm
-20010000.etb 20040000.funnel 2201d000.ptm 2203d000.etm
-root:~#
-
-The functions take a "struct coresight_device", which looks like this:
-
-struct coresight_desc {
- enum coresight_dev_type type;
- struct coresight_dev_subtype subtype;
- const struct coresight_ops *ops;
- struct coresight_platform_data *pdata;
- struct device *dev;
- const struct attribute_group **groups;
-};
-
-
-The "coresight_dev_type" identifies what the device is, i.e, source link or
-sink while the "coresight_dev_subtype" will characterise that type further.
-
-The "struct coresight_ops" is mandatory and will tell the framework how to
-perform base operations related to the components, each component having
-a different set of requirement. For that "struct coresight_ops_sink",
-"struct coresight_ops_link" and "struct coresight_ops_source" have been
-provided.
-
-The next field, "struct coresight_platform_data *pdata" is acquired by calling
-"of_get_coresight_platform_data()", as part of the driver's _probe routine and
-"struct device *dev" gets the device reference embedded in the "amba_device":
-
-static int etm_probe(struct amba_device *adev, const struct amba_id *id)
-{
- ...
- ...
- drvdata->dev = &adev->dev;
- ...
-}
-
-Specific class of device (source, link, or sink) have generic operations
-that can be performed on them (see "struct coresight_ops"). The
-"**groups" is a list of sysfs entries pertaining to operations
-specific to that component only. "Implementation defined" customisations are
-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 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
-any given moment. As a generic operation, all device pertaining to the sink
-class will have an "active" entry in sysfs:
-
-root:/sys/bus/coresight/devices# ls
-replicator 20030000.tpiu 2201c000.ptm 2203c000.etm 2203e000.etm
-20010000.etb 20040000.funnel 2201d000.ptm 2203d000.etm
-root:/sys/bus/coresight/devices# ls 20010000.etb
-enable_sink status trigger_cntr
-root:/sys/bus/coresight/devices# echo 1 > 20010000.etb/enable_sink
-root:/sys/bus/coresight/devices# cat 20010000.etb/enable_sink
-1
-root:/sys/bus/coresight/devices#
-
-At boot time the current etm3x driver will configure the first address
-comparator with "_stext" and "_etext", essentially tracing any instruction
-that falls within that range. As such "enabling" a source will immediately
-trigger a trace capture:
-
-root:/sys/bus/coresight/devices# echo 1 > 2201c000.ptm/enable_source
-root:/sys/bus/coresight/devices# cat 2201c000.ptm/enable_source
-1
-root:/sys/bus/coresight/devices# cat 20010000.etb/status
-Depth: 0x2000
-Status: 0x1
-RAM read ptr: 0x0
-RAM wrt ptr: 0x19d3 <----- The write pointer is moving
-Trigger cnt: 0x0
-Control: 0x1
-Flush status: 0x0
-Flush ctrl: 0x2001
-root:/sys/bus/coresight/devices#
-
-Trace collection is stopped the same way:
-
-root:/sys/bus/coresight/devices# echo 0 > 2201c000.ptm/enable_source
-root:/sys/bus/coresight/devices#
-
-The content of the ETB buffer can be harvested directly from /dev:
-
-root:/sys/bus/coresight/devices# dd if=/dev/20010000.etb \
-of=~/cstrace.bin
-
-64+0 records in
-64+0 records out
-32768 bytes (33 kB) copied, 0.00125258 s, 26.2 MB/s
-root:/sys/bus/coresight/devices#
-
-The file cstrace.bin can be decompressed using "ptm2human", DS-5 or Trace32.
-
-Following is a DS-5 output of an experimental loop that increments a variable up
-to a certain value. The example is simple and yet provides a glimpse of the
-wealth of possibilities that coresight provides.
-
-Info Tracing enabled
-Instruction 106378866 0x8026B53C E52DE004 false PUSH {lr}
-Instruction 0 0x8026B540 E24DD00C false SUB sp,sp,#0xc
-Instruction 0 0x8026B544 E3A03000 false MOV r3,#0
-Instruction 0 0x8026B548 E58D3004 false STR r3,[sp,#4]
-Instruction 0 0x8026B54C E59D3004 false LDR r3,[sp,#4]
-Instruction 0 0x8026B550 E3530004 false CMP r3,#4
-Instruction 0 0x8026B554 E2833001 false ADD r3,r3,#1
-Instruction 0 0x8026B558 E58D3004 false STR r3,[sp,#4]
-Instruction 0 0x8026B55C DAFFFFFA true BLE {pc}-0x10 ; 0x8026b54c
-Timestamp Timestamp: 17106715833
-Instruction 319 0x8026B54C E59D3004 false LDR r3,[sp,#4]
-Instruction 0 0x8026B550 E3530004 false CMP r3,#4
-Instruction 0 0x8026B554 E2833001 false ADD r3,r3,#1
-Instruction 0 0x8026B558 E58D3004 false STR r3,[sp,#4]
-Instruction 0 0x8026B55C DAFFFFFA true BLE {pc}-0x10 ; 0x8026b54c
-Instruction 9 0x8026B54C E59D3004 false LDR r3,[sp,#4]
-Instruction 0 0x8026B550 E3530004 false CMP r3,#4
-Instruction 0 0x8026B554 E2833001 false ADD r3,r3,#1
-Instruction 0 0x8026B558 E58D3004 false STR r3,[sp,#4]
-Instruction 0 0x8026B55C DAFFFFFA true BLE {pc}-0x10 ; 0x8026b54c
-Instruction 7 0x8026B54C E59D3004 false LDR r3,[sp,#4]
-Instruction 0 0x8026B550 E3530004 false CMP r3,#4
-Instruction 0 0x8026B554 E2833001 false ADD r3,r3,#1
-Instruction 0 0x8026B558 E58D3004 false STR r3,[sp,#4]
-Instruction 0 0x8026B55C DAFFFFFA true BLE {pc}-0x10 ; 0x8026b54c
-Instruction 7 0x8026B54C E59D3004 false LDR r3,[sp,#4]
-Instruction 0 0x8026B550 E3530004 false CMP r3,#4
-Instruction 0 0x8026B554 E2833001 false ADD r3,r3,#1
-Instruction 0 0x8026B558 E58D3004 false STR r3,[sp,#4]
-Instruction 0 0x8026B55C DAFFFFFA true BLE {pc}-0x10 ; 0x8026b54c
-Instruction 10 0x8026B54C E59D3004 false LDR r3,[sp,#4]
-Instruction 0 0x8026B550 E3530004 false CMP r3,#4
-Instruction 0 0x8026B554 E2833001 false ADD r3,r3,#1
-Instruction 0 0x8026B558 E58D3004 false STR r3,[sp,#4]
-Instruction 0 0x8026B55C DAFFFFFA true BLE {pc}-0x10 ; 0x8026b54c
-Instruction 6 0x8026B560 EE1D3F30 false MRC p15,#0x0,r3,c13,c0,#1
-Instruction 0 0x8026B564 E1A0100D false MOV r1,sp
-Instruction 0 0x8026B568 E3C12D7F false BIC r2,r1,#0x1fc0
-Instruction 0 0x8026B56C E3C2203F false BIC r2,r2,#0x3f
-Instruction 0 0x8026B570 E59D1004 false LDR r1,[sp,#4]
-Instruction 0 0x8026B574 E59F0010 false LDR r0,[pc,#16] ; [0x8026B58C] = 0x80550368
-Instruction 0 0x8026B578 E592200C false LDR r2,[r2,#0xc]
-Instruction 0 0x8026B57C E59221D0 false LDR r2,[r2,#0x1d0]
-Instruction 0 0x8026B580 EB07A4CF true BL {pc}+0x1e9344 ; 0x804548c4
-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
-
-
-Using perf tools
-----------------
-
-perf can be used to record and analyze trace of programs.
-
-Execution can be recorded using 'perf record' with the cs_etm event,
-specifying the name of the sink to record to, e.g:
-
- perf record -e cs_etm/@20070000.etr/u --per-thread
-
-The 'perf report' and 'perf script' commands can be used to analyze execution,
-synthesizing instruction and branch events from the instruction trace.
-'perf inject' can be used to replace the trace data with the synthesized events.
-The --itrace option controls the type and frequency of synthesized events
-(see perf documentation).
-
-Note that only 64-bit programs are currently supported - further work is
-required to support instruction decode of 32-bit Arm programs.
-
-
-Generating coverage files for Feedback Directed Optimization: AutoFDO
----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-'perf inject' accepts the --itrace option in which case tracing data is
-removed and replaced with the synthesized events. e.g.
-
- perf inject --itrace --strip -i perf.data -o perf.data.new
-
-Below is an example of using ARM ETM for autoFDO. It requires autofdo
-(https://github.com/google/autofdo) and gcc version 5. The bubble
-sort example is from the AutoFDO tutorial (https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/AutoFDO/Tutorial).
-
- $ gcc-5 -O3 sort.c -o sort
- $ taskset -c 2 ./sort
- Bubble sorting array of 30000 elements
- 5910 ms
-
- $ perf record -e cs_etm/@20070000.etr/u --per-thread taskset -c 2 ./sort
- Bubble sorting array of 30000 elements
- 12543 ms
- [ perf record: Woken up 35 times to write data ]
- [ perf record: Captured and wrote 69.640 MB perf.data ]
-
- $ perf inject -i perf.data -o inj.data --itrace=il64 --strip
- $ create_gcov --binary=./sort --profile=inj.data --gcov=sort.gcov -gcov_version=1
- $ gcc-5 -O3 -fauto-profile=sort.gcov sort.c -o sort_autofdo
- $ taskset -c 2 ./sort_autofdo
- Bubble sorting array of 30000 elements
- 5806 ms
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+ Coresight CPU Debug Module
+ ==========================
+
+ Author: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linaro.org>
+ Date: April 5th, 2017
+
+Introduction
+------------
+
+Coresight CPU debug module is defined in ARMv8-a architecture reference manual
+(ARM DDI 0487A.k) Chapter 'Part H: External debug', the CPU can integrate
+debug module and it is mainly used for two modes: self-hosted debug and
+external debug. Usually the external debug mode is well known as the external
+debugger connects with SoC from JTAG port; on the other hand the program can
+explore debugging method which rely on self-hosted debug mode, this document
+is to focus on this part.
+
+The debug module provides sample-based profiling extension, which can be used
+to sample CPU program counter, secure state and exception level, etc; usually
+every CPU has one dedicated debug module to be connected. Based on self-hosted
+debug mechanism, Linux kernel can access these related registers from mmio
+region when the kernel panic happens. The callback notifier for kernel panic
+will dump related registers for every CPU; finally this is good for assistant
+analysis for panic.
+
+
+Implementation
+--------------
+
+- During driver registration, it uses EDDEVID and EDDEVID1 - two device ID
+ registers to decide if sample-based profiling is implemented or not. On some
+ platforms this hardware feature is fully or partially implemented; and if
+ this feature is not supported then registration will fail.
+
+- At the time this documentation was written, the debug driver mainly relies on
+ information gathered by the kernel panic callback notifier from three
+ sampling registers: EDPCSR, EDVIDSR and EDCIDSR: from EDPCSR we can get
+ program counter; EDVIDSR has information for secure state, exception level,
+ bit width, etc; EDCIDSR is context ID value which contains the sampled value
+ of CONTEXTIDR_EL1.
+
+- The driver supports a CPU running in either AArch64 or AArch32 mode. The
+ registers naming convention is a bit different between them, AArch64 uses
+ 'ED' for register prefix (ARM DDI 0487A.k, chapter H9.1) and AArch32 uses
+ 'DBG' as prefix (ARM DDI 0487A.k, chapter G5.1). The driver is unified to
+ use AArch64 naming convention.
+
+- ARMv8-a (ARM DDI 0487A.k) and ARMv7-a (ARM DDI 0406C.b) have different
+ register bits definition. So the driver consolidates two difference:
+
+ If PCSROffset=0b0000, on ARMv8-a the feature of EDPCSR is not implemented;
+ but ARMv7-a defines "PCSR samples are offset by a value that depends on the
+ instruction set state". For ARMv7-a, the driver checks furthermore if CPU
+ runs with ARM or thumb instruction set and calibrate PCSR value, the
+ detailed description for offset is in ARMv7-a ARM (ARM DDI 0406C.b) chapter
+ C11.11.34 "DBGPCSR, Program Counter Sampling Register".
+
+ If PCSROffset=0b0010, ARMv8-a defines "EDPCSR implemented, and samples have
+ no offset applied and do not sample the instruction set state in AArch32
+ state". So on ARMv8 if EDDEVID1.PCSROffset is 0b0010 and the CPU operates
+ in AArch32 state, EDPCSR is not sampled; when the CPU operates in AArch64
+ state EDPCSR is sampled and no offset are applied.
+
+
+Clock and power domain
+----------------------
+
+Before accessing debug registers, we should ensure the clock and power domain
+have been enabled properly. In ARMv8-a ARM (ARM DDI 0487A.k) chapter 'H9.1
+Debug registers', the debug registers are spread into two domains: the debug
+domain and the CPU domain.
+
+ +---------------+
+ | |
+ | |
+ +----------+--+ |
+ dbg_clock -->| |**| |<-- cpu_clock
+ | Debug |**| CPU |
+ dbg_power_domain -->| |**| |<-- cpu_power_domain
+ +----------+--+ |
+ | |
+ | |
+ +---------------+
+
+For debug domain, the user uses DT binding "clocks" and "power-domains" to
+specify the corresponding clock source and power supply for the debug logic.
+The driver calls the pm_runtime_{put|get} operations as needed to handle the
+debug power domain.
+
+For CPU domain, the different SoC designs have different power management
+schemes and finally this heavily impacts external debug module. So we can
+divide into below cases:
+
+- On systems with a sane power controller which can behave correctly with
+ respect to CPU power domain, the CPU power domain can be controlled by
+ register EDPRCR in driver. The driver firstly writes bit EDPRCR.COREPURQ
+ to power up the CPU, and then writes bit EDPRCR.CORENPDRQ for emulation
+ of CPU power down. As result, this can ensure the CPU power domain is
+ powered on properly during the period when access debug related registers;
+
+- Some designs will power down an entire cluster if all CPUs on the cluster
+ are powered down - including the parts of the debug registers that should
+ remain powered in the debug power domain. The bits in EDPRCR are not
+ respected in these cases, so these designs do not support debug over
+ power down in the way that the CoreSight / Debug designers anticipated.
+ This means that even checking EDPRSR has the potential to cause a bus hang
+ if the target register is unpowered.
+
+ In this case, accessing to the debug registers while they are not powered
+ is a recipe for disaster; so we need preventing CPU low power states at boot
+ time or when user enable module at the run time. Please see chapter
+ "How to use the module" for detailed usage info for this.
+
+
+Device Tree Bindings
+--------------------
+
+See Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/coresight-cpu-debug.txt for details.
+
+
+How to use the module
+---------------------
+
+If you want to enable debugging functionality at boot time, you can add
+"coresight_cpu_debug.enable=1" to the kernel command line parameter.
+
+The driver also can work as module, so can enable the debugging when insmod
+module:
+# insmod coresight_cpu_debug.ko debug=1
+
+When boot time or insmod module you have not enabled the debugging, the driver
+uses the debugfs file system to provide a knob to dynamically enable or disable
+debugging:
+
+To enable it, write a '1' into /sys/kernel/debug/coresight_cpu_debug/enable:
+# echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/coresight_cpu_debug/enable
+
+To disable it, write a '0' into /sys/kernel/debug/coresight_cpu_debug/enable:
+# echo 0 > /sys/kernel/debug/coresight_cpu_debug/enable
+
+As explained in chapter "Clock and power domain", if you are working on one
+platform which has idle states to power off debug logic and the power
+controller cannot work well for the request from EDPRCR, then you should
+firstly constraint CPU idle states before enable CPU debugging feature; so can
+ensure the accessing to debug logic.
+
+If you want to limit idle states at boot time, you can use "nohlt" or
+"cpuidle.off=1" in the kernel command line.
+
+At the runtime you can disable idle states with below methods:
+
+It is possible to disable CPU idle states by way of the PM QoS
+subsystem, more specifically by using the "/dev/cpu_dma_latency"
+interface (see Documentation/power/pm_qos_interface.txt for more
+details). As specified in the PM QoS documentation the requested
+parameter will stay in effect until the file descriptor is released.
+For example:
+
+# exec 3<> /dev/cpu_dma_latency; echo 0 >&3
+...
+Do some work...
+...
+# exec 3<>-
+
+The same can also be done from an application program.
+
+Disable specific CPU's specific idle state from cpuidle sysfs (see
+Documentation/cpuidle/sysfs.txt):
+# echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu$cpu/cpuidle/state$state/disable
+
+
+Output format
+-------------
+
+Here is an example of the debugging output format:
+
+ARM external debug module:
+coresight-cpu-debug 850000.debug: CPU[0]:
+coresight-cpu-debug 850000.debug: EDPRSR: 00000001 (Power:On DLK:Unlock)
+coresight-cpu-debug 850000.debug: EDPCSR: [<ffff00000808e9bc>] handle_IPI+0x174/0x1d8
+coresight-cpu-debug 850000.debug: EDCIDSR: 00000000
+coresight-cpu-debug 850000.debug: EDVIDSR: 90000000 (State:Non-secure Mode:EL1/0 Width:64bits VMID:0)
+coresight-cpu-debug 852000.debug: CPU[1]:
+coresight-cpu-debug 852000.debug: EDPRSR: 00000001 (Power:On DLK:Unlock)
+coresight-cpu-debug 852000.debug: EDPCSR: [<ffff0000087fab34>] debug_notifier_call+0x23c/0x358
+coresight-cpu-debug 852000.debug: EDCIDSR: 00000000
+coresight-cpu-debug 852000.debug: EDVIDSR: 90000000 (State:Non-secure Mode:EL1/0 Width:64bits VMID:0)
new file mode 100644
@@ -0,0 +1,383 @@
+ Coresight - HW Assisted Tracing on ARM
+ ======================================
+
+ Author: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org>
+ Date: September 11th, 2014
+
+Introduction
+------------
+
+Coresight is an umbrella of technologies allowing for the debugging of ARM
+based SoC. It includes solutions for JTAG and HW assisted tracing. This
+document is concerned with the latter.
+
+HW assisted tracing is becoming increasingly useful when dealing with systems
+that have many SoCs and other components like GPU and DMA engines. ARM has
+developed a HW assisted tracing solution by means of different components, each
+being added to a design at synthesis time to cater to specific tracing needs.
+Components are generally categorised as source, link and sinks and are
+(usually) discovered using the AMBA bus.
+
+"Sources" generate a compressed stream representing the processor instruction
+path based on tracing scenarios as configured by users. From there the stream
+flows through the coresight system (via ATB bus) using links that are connecting
+the emanating source to a sink(s). Sinks serve as endpoints to the coresight
+implementation, either storing the compressed stream in a memory buffer or
+creating an interface to the outside world where data can be transferred to a
+host without fear of filling up the onboard coresight memory buffer.
+
+At typical coresight system would look like this:
+
+ *****************************************************************
+ **************************** AMBA AXI ****************************===||
+ ***************************************************************** ||
+ ^ ^ | ||
+ | | * **
+ 0000000 ::::: 0000000 ::::: ::::: @@@@@@@ ||||||||||||
+ 0 CPU 0<-->: C : 0 CPU 0<-->: C : : C : @ STM @ || System ||
+ |->0000000 : T : |->0000000 : T : : T :<--->@@@@@ || Memory ||
+ | #######<-->: I : | #######<-->: I : : I : @@@<-| ||||||||||||
+ | # ETM # ::::: | # PTM # ::::: ::::: @ |
+ | ##### ^ ^ | ##### ^ ! ^ ! . | |||||||||
+ | |->### | ! | |->### | ! | ! . | || DAP ||
+ | | # | ! | | # | ! | ! . | |||||||||
+ | | . | ! | | . | ! | ! . | | |
+ | | . | ! | | . | ! | ! . | | *
+ | | . | ! | | . | ! | ! . | | SWD/
+ | | . | ! | | . | ! | ! . | | JTAG
+ *****************************************************************<-|
+ *************************** AMBA Debug APB ************************
+ *****************************************************************
+ | . ! . ! ! . |
+ | . * . * * . |
+ *****************************************************************
+ ******************** Cross Trigger Matrix (CTM) *******************
+ *****************************************************************
+ | . ^ . . |
+ | * ! * * |
+ *****************************************************************
+ ****************** AMBA Advanced Trace Bus (ATB) ******************
+ *****************************************************************
+ | ! =============== |
+ | * ===== F =====<---------|
+ | ::::::::: ==== U ====
+ |-->:: CTI ::<!! === N ===
+ | ::::::::: ! == N ==
+ | ^ * == E ==
+ | ! &&&&&&&&& IIIIIII == L ==
+ |------>&& ETB &&<......II I =======
+ | ! &&&&&&&&& II I .
+ | ! I I .
+ | ! I REP I<..........
+ | ! I I
+ | !!>&&&&&&&&& II I *Source: ARM ltd.
+ |------>& TPIU &<......II I DAP = Debug Access Port
+ &&&&&&&&& IIIIIII ETM = Embedded Trace Macrocell
+ ; PTM = Program Trace Macrocell
+ ; CTI = Cross Trigger Interface
+ * ETB = Embedded Trace Buffer
+ To trace port TPIU= Trace Port Interface Unit
+ SWD = Serial Wire Debug
+
+While on target configuration of the components is done via the APB bus,
+all trace data are carried out-of-band on the ATB bus. The CTM provides
+a way to aggregate and distribute signals between CoreSight components.
+
+The coresight framework provides a central point to represent, configure and
+manage coresight devices on a platform. This first implementation centers on
+the basic tracing functionality, enabling components such ETM/PTM, funnel,
+replicator, TMC, TPIU and ETB. Future work will enable more
+intricate IP blocks such as STM and CTI.
+
+
+Acronyms and Classification
+---------------------------
+
+Acronyms:
+
+PTM: Program Trace Macrocell
+ETM: Embedded Trace Macrocell
+STM: System trace Macrocell
+ETB: Embedded Trace Buffer
+ITM: Instrumentation Trace Macrocell
+TPIU: Trace Port Interface Unit
+TMC-ETR: Trace Memory Controller, configured as Embedded Trace Router
+TMC-ETF: Trace Memory Controller, configured as Embedded Trace FIFO
+CTI: Cross Trigger Interface
+
+Classification:
+
+Source:
+ ETMv3.x ETMv4, PTMv1.0, PTMv1.1, STM, STM500, ITM
+Link:
+ Funnel, replicator (intelligent or not), TMC-ETR
+Sinks:
+ ETBv1.0, ETB1.1, TPIU, TMC-ETF
+Misc:
+ CTI
+
+
+Device Tree Bindings
+----------------------
+
+See Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/coresight.txt for details.
+
+As of this writing drivers for ITM, STMs and CTIs are not provided but are
+expected to be added as the solution matures.
+
+
+Framework and implementation
+----------------------------
+
+The coresight framework provides a central point to represent, configure and
+manage coresight devices on a platform. Any coresight compliant device can
+register with the framework for as long as they use the right APIs:
+
+struct coresight_device *coresight_register(struct coresight_desc *desc);
+void coresight_unregister(struct coresight_device *csdev);
+
+The registering function is taking a "struct coresight_device *csdev" and
+register the device with the core framework. The unregister function takes
+a reference to a "struct coresight_device", obtained at registration time.
+
+If everything goes well during the registration process the new devices will
+show up under /sys/bus/coresight/devices, as showns here for a TC2 platform:
+
+root:~# ls /sys/bus/coresight/devices/
+replicator 20030000.tpiu 2201c000.ptm 2203c000.etm 2203e000.etm
+20010000.etb 20040000.funnel 2201d000.ptm 2203d000.etm
+root:~#
+
+The functions take a "struct coresight_device", which looks like this:
+
+struct coresight_desc {
+ enum coresight_dev_type type;
+ struct coresight_dev_subtype subtype;
+ const struct coresight_ops *ops;
+ struct coresight_platform_data *pdata;
+ struct device *dev;
+ const struct attribute_group **groups;
+};
+
+
+The "coresight_dev_type" identifies what the device is, i.e, source link or
+sink while the "coresight_dev_subtype" will characterise that type further.
+
+The "struct coresight_ops" is mandatory and will tell the framework how to
+perform base operations related to the components, each component having
+a different set of requirement. For that "struct coresight_ops_sink",
+"struct coresight_ops_link" and "struct coresight_ops_source" have been
+provided.
+
+The next field, "struct coresight_platform_data *pdata" is acquired by calling
+"of_get_coresight_platform_data()", as part of the driver's _probe routine and
+"struct device *dev" gets the device reference embedded in the "amba_device":
+
+static int etm_probe(struct amba_device *adev, const struct amba_id *id)
+{
+ ...
+ ...
+ drvdata->dev = &adev->dev;
+ ...
+}
+
+Specific class of device (source, link, or sink) have generic operations
+that can be performed on them (see "struct coresight_ops"). The
+"**groups" is a list of sysfs entries pertaining to operations
+specific to that component only. "Implementation defined" customisations are
+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 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
+any given moment. As a generic operation, all device pertaining to the sink
+class will have an "active" entry in sysfs:
+
+root:/sys/bus/coresight/devices# ls
+replicator 20030000.tpiu 2201c000.ptm 2203c000.etm 2203e000.etm
+20010000.etb 20040000.funnel 2201d000.ptm 2203d000.etm
+root:/sys/bus/coresight/devices# ls 20010000.etb
+enable_sink status trigger_cntr
+root:/sys/bus/coresight/devices# echo 1 > 20010000.etb/enable_sink
+root:/sys/bus/coresight/devices# cat 20010000.etb/enable_sink
+1
+root:/sys/bus/coresight/devices#
+
+At boot time the current etm3x driver will configure the first address
+comparator with "_stext" and "_etext", essentially tracing any instruction
+that falls within that range. As such "enabling" a source will immediately
+trigger a trace capture:
+
+root:/sys/bus/coresight/devices# echo 1 > 2201c000.ptm/enable_source
+root:/sys/bus/coresight/devices# cat 2201c000.ptm/enable_source
+1
+root:/sys/bus/coresight/devices# cat 20010000.etb/status
+Depth: 0x2000
+Status: 0x1
+RAM read ptr: 0x0
+RAM wrt ptr: 0x19d3 <----- The write pointer is moving
+Trigger cnt: 0x0
+Control: 0x1
+Flush status: 0x0
+Flush ctrl: 0x2001
+root:/sys/bus/coresight/devices#
+
+Trace collection is stopped the same way:
+
+root:/sys/bus/coresight/devices# echo 0 > 2201c000.ptm/enable_source
+root:/sys/bus/coresight/devices#
+
+The content of the ETB buffer can be harvested directly from /dev:
+
+root:/sys/bus/coresight/devices# dd if=/dev/20010000.etb \
+of=~/cstrace.bin
+
+64+0 records in
+64+0 records out
+32768 bytes (33 kB) copied, 0.00125258 s, 26.2 MB/s
+root:/sys/bus/coresight/devices#
+
+The file cstrace.bin can be decompressed using "ptm2human", DS-5 or Trace32.
+
+Following is a DS-5 output of an experimental loop that increments a variable up
+to a certain value. The example is simple and yet provides a glimpse of the
+wealth of possibilities that coresight provides.
+
+Info Tracing enabled
+Instruction 106378866 0x8026B53C E52DE004 false PUSH {lr}
+Instruction 0 0x8026B540 E24DD00C false SUB sp,sp,#0xc
+Instruction 0 0x8026B544 E3A03000 false MOV r3,#0
+Instruction 0 0x8026B548 E58D3004 false STR r3,[sp,#4]
+Instruction 0 0x8026B54C E59D3004 false LDR r3,[sp,#4]
+Instruction 0 0x8026B550 E3530004 false CMP r3,#4
+Instruction 0 0x8026B554 E2833001 false ADD r3,r3,#1
+Instruction 0 0x8026B558 E58D3004 false STR r3,[sp,#4]
+Instruction 0 0x8026B55C DAFFFFFA true BLE {pc}-0x10 ; 0x8026b54c
+Timestamp Timestamp: 17106715833
+Instruction 319 0x8026B54C E59D3004 false LDR r3,[sp,#4]
+Instruction 0 0x8026B550 E3530004 false CMP r3,#4
+Instruction 0 0x8026B554 E2833001 false ADD r3,r3,#1
+Instruction 0 0x8026B558 E58D3004 false STR r3,[sp,#4]
+Instruction 0 0x8026B55C DAFFFFFA true BLE {pc}-0x10 ; 0x8026b54c
+Instruction 9 0x8026B54C E59D3004 false LDR r3,[sp,#4]
+Instruction 0 0x8026B550 E3530004 false CMP r3,#4
+Instruction 0 0x8026B554 E2833001 false ADD r3,r3,#1
+Instruction 0 0x8026B558 E58D3004 false STR r3,[sp,#4]
+Instruction 0 0x8026B55C DAFFFFFA true BLE {pc}-0x10 ; 0x8026b54c
+Instruction 7 0x8026B54C E59D3004 false LDR r3,[sp,#4]
+Instruction 0 0x8026B550 E3530004 false CMP r3,#4
+Instruction 0 0x8026B554 E2833001 false ADD r3,r3,#1
+Instruction 0 0x8026B558 E58D3004 false STR r3,[sp,#4]
+Instruction 0 0x8026B55C DAFFFFFA true BLE {pc}-0x10 ; 0x8026b54c
+Instruction 7 0x8026B54C E59D3004 false LDR r3,[sp,#4]
+Instruction 0 0x8026B550 E3530004 false CMP r3,#4
+Instruction 0 0x8026B554 E2833001 false ADD r3,r3,#1
+Instruction 0 0x8026B558 E58D3004 false STR r3,[sp,#4]
+Instruction 0 0x8026B55C DAFFFFFA true BLE {pc}-0x10 ; 0x8026b54c
+Instruction 10 0x8026B54C E59D3004 false LDR r3,[sp,#4]
+Instruction 0 0x8026B550 E3530004 false CMP r3,#4
+Instruction 0 0x8026B554 E2833001 false ADD r3,r3,#1
+Instruction 0 0x8026B558 E58D3004 false STR r3,[sp,#4]
+Instruction 0 0x8026B55C DAFFFFFA true BLE {pc}-0x10 ; 0x8026b54c
+Instruction 6 0x8026B560 EE1D3F30 false MRC p15,#0x0,r3,c13,c0,#1
+Instruction 0 0x8026B564 E1A0100D false MOV r1,sp
+Instruction 0 0x8026B568 E3C12D7F false BIC r2,r1,#0x1fc0
+Instruction 0 0x8026B56C E3C2203F false BIC r2,r2,#0x3f
+Instruction 0 0x8026B570 E59D1004 false LDR r1,[sp,#4]
+Instruction 0 0x8026B574 E59F0010 false LDR r0,[pc,#16] ; [0x8026B58C] = 0x80550368
+Instruction 0 0x8026B578 E592200C false LDR r2,[r2,#0xc]
+Instruction 0 0x8026B57C E59221D0 false LDR r2,[r2,#0x1d0]
+Instruction 0 0x8026B580 EB07A4CF true BL {pc}+0x1e9344 ; 0x804548c4
+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
+
+
+Using perf tools
+----------------
+
+perf can be used to record and analyze trace of programs.
+
+Execution can be recorded using 'perf record' with the cs_etm event,
+specifying the name of the sink to record to, e.g:
+
+ perf record -e cs_etm/@20070000.etr/u --per-thread
+
+The 'perf report' and 'perf script' commands can be used to analyze execution,
+synthesizing instruction and branch events from the instruction trace.
+'perf inject' can be used to replace the trace data with the synthesized events.
+The --itrace option controls the type and frequency of synthesized events
+(see perf documentation).
+
+Note that only 64-bit programs are currently supported - further work is
+required to support instruction decode of 32-bit Arm programs.
+
+
+Generating coverage files for Feedback Directed Optimization: AutoFDO
+---------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+'perf inject' accepts the --itrace option in which case tracing data is
+removed and replaced with the synthesized events. e.g.
+
+ perf inject --itrace --strip -i perf.data -o perf.data.new
+
+Below is an example of using ARM ETM for autoFDO. It requires autofdo
+(https://github.com/google/autofdo) and gcc version 5. The bubble
+sort example is from the AutoFDO tutorial (https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/AutoFDO/Tutorial).
+
+ $ gcc-5 -O3 sort.c -o sort
+ $ taskset -c 2 ./sort
+ Bubble sorting array of 30000 elements
+ 5910 ms
+
+ $ perf record -e cs_etm/@20070000.etr/u --per-thread taskset -c 2 ./sort
+ Bubble sorting array of 30000 elements
+ 12543 ms
+ [ perf record: Woken up 35 times to write data ]
+ [ perf record: Captured and wrote 69.640 MB perf.data ]
+
+ $ perf inject -i perf.data -o inj.data --itrace=il64 --strip
+ $ create_gcov --binary=./sort --profile=inj.data --gcov=sort.gcov -gcov_version=1
+ $ gcc-5 -O3 -fauto-profile=sort.gcov sort.c -o sort_autofdo
+ $ taskset -c 2 ./sort_autofdo
+ Bubble sorting array of 30000 elements
+ 5806 ms
@@ -1331,8 +1331,8 @@ M: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org>
L: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org (moderated for non-subscribers)
S: Maintained
F: drivers/hwtracing/coresight/*
-F: Documentation/trace/coresight.txt
-F: Documentation/trace/coresight-cpu-debug.txt
+F: Documentation/trace/coresight/coresight.txt
+F: Documentation/trace/coresight/coresight-cpu-debug.txt
F: Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/coresight.txt
F: Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/coresight-cpu-debug.txt
F: Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-coresight-devices-*
For easy management and friendly adding more Coresight documentation, this commit creates a new directory: Documentation/trace/coresight. This commit also moves Coresight related docs into the new directory and updates MAINTAINERS file to reflect docs movement. Signed-off-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linaro.org> --- Documentation/trace/coresight-cpu-debug.txt | 187 ---------- Documentation/trace/coresight.txt | 383 --------------------- .../trace/coresight/coresight-cpu-debug.txt | 187 ++++++++++ Documentation/trace/coresight/coresight.txt | 383 +++++++++++++++++++++ MAINTAINERS | 4 +- 5 files changed, 572 insertions(+), 572 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 Documentation/trace/coresight-cpu-debug.txt delete mode 100644 Documentation/trace/coresight.txt create mode 100644 Documentation/trace/coresight/coresight-cpu-debug.txt create mode 100644 Documentation/trace/coresight/coresight.txt -- 2.7.4