Re: [PATCH RESEND 2/2] perf tools: adding coresight etm PMU record capabilities

From: Adrian Hunter
Date: Wed Jul 13 2016 - 07:46:12 EST


On 17/06/16 20:02, Mathieu Poirier wrote:
> Coresight ETMs are IP blocks used to perform HW assisted tracing
> on a CPU core. This patch introduce the required auxiliary API
> functions allowing the perf core to interact with a tracer.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> MAINTAINERS | 3 +
> tools/perf/arch/arm/util/Build | 2 +-
> tools/perf/arch/arm/util/auxtrace.c | 54 ++++
> tools/perf/arch/arm/util/cs-etm.c | 559 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> tools/perf/arch/arm/util/cs-etm.h | 23 ++
> tools/perf/arch/arm64/util/Build | 4 +
> tools/perf/util/auxtrace.c | 1 +
> tools/perf/util/auxtrace.h | 1 +
> tools/perf/util/cs-etm.h | 74 +++++
> 9 files changed, 720 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> create mode 100644 tools/perf/arch/arm/util/auxtrace.c
> create mode 100644 tools/perf/arch/arm/util/cs-etm.c
> create mode 100644 tools/perf/arch/arm/util/cs-etm.h
> create mode 100644 tools/perf/util/cs-etm.h
>
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index d3451007718b..4fa03b03bfc5 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -1086,6 +1086,9 @@ F: Documentation/trace/coresight.txt
> F: Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/coresight.txt
> F: Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-coresight-devices-*
> F: tools/perf/arch/arm/util/pmu.c
> +F: tools/perf/arch/arm/util/auxtrace.c
> +F: tools/perf/arch/arm/util/cs_etm.c
> +F: tools/perf/arch/arm/util/cs_etm.h

File names have changed from having '_' to '-'
Also FWIW there is now tools/perf/util/cs-etm.h

As last time, there is no decoder, which still begs the question: is there
anything you can actually do with the perf.data file?

Otherwise:

Acked-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@xxxxxxxxx>