Re: [PATCH v3] coresight: documentation: update sysfs section

[Randy Dunlap]

On 05/14/2018 12:18 PM, Kim Phillips wrote:
> - Align and show updated ls devices output from the TC2, based on
>   current driver
> 
> - Provide an example from an ETMv4 based system (Juno)
> 
> - Reflect changes to the way the RAM write pointer is accessed since
>   it got changed in commit 7d83d17795ef ("coresight: tmc: adding sysFS
>   management entries").
> 
> Cc: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@xxxxxxx>

FWIW:
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks.

> ---
> v3: address Randy Dunlap's showns->shown,  corrected - and + line merging
> v2: address Mathieu's comment about clarifying the sinks on the Juno
>     vs. TC2 platforms.
> 
>  Documentation/trace/coresight.txt | 43 +++++++++++++++++++------------
>  1 file changed, 26 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/trace/coresight.txt b/Documentation/trace/coresight.txt
> index 6f0120c3a4f1..15d2a0f1e1b8 100644
> --- a/Documentation/trace/coresight.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/trace/coresight.txt
> @@ -141,13 +141,25 @@ 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:
> +show up under /sys/bus/coresight/devices, as shown 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
> +20010000.etb   20040000.funnel	2201d000.ptm  2203d000.etm  replicator
> +20030000.tpiu  2201c000.ptm	2203c000.etm  2203e000.etm
>  root:~#
>  
> +and here for a Juno platform:
> +
> +root@juno:~# ls /sys/bus/coresight/devices/
> +20010000.etf	 20120000.replicator  22040000.etm     230c0000.funnel
> +20030000.tpiu	 20130000.funnel      220c0000.funnel  23140000.etm
> +20040000.funnel  20140000.etf	      22140000.etm     23240000.etm
> +20070000.etr	 20150000.funnel      23040000.etm     23340000.etm
> +root@juno:~# 
> +
> +Note that on Juno users can select the ETF, ETR and TPIU as a sink target while
> +on TC2, the ETB and TPIU can be selected.
> +
>  The functions take a "struct coresight_device", which looks like this:
>  
>  struct coresight_desc {
> @@ -193,16 +205,16 @@ the information carried in "THIS_MODULE".
>  How to use the tracer modules
>  -----------------------------
>  
> -Before trace collection can start, a coresight sink needs to be identify.
> +Before trace collection can start, a coresight sink needs to be identified.
>  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
> +20010000.etb   20040000.funnel	2201d000.ptm  2203d000.etm  replicator
> +20030000.tpiu  2201c000.ptm	2203c000.etm  2203e000.etm
>  root:/sys/bus/coresight/devices# ls 20010000.etb
> -enable_sink  status  trigger_cntr
> +enable_sink  mgmt  power  subsystem  trigger_cntr  uevent
>  root:/sys/bus/coresight/devices# echo 1 > 20010000.etb/enable_sink
>  root:/sys/bus/coresight/devices# cat 20010000.etb/enable_sink
>  1
> @@ -216,16 +228,13 @@ 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#
> +
> +Observe the write pointer moving:
> +
> +root:/sys/bus/coresight/devices# cat 20010000.etb/mgmt/rwp
> +0x1a8
> +root:/sys/bus/coresight/devices# cat 20010000.etb/mgmt/rwp
> +0x19a6
>  
>  Trace collection is stopped the same way:
>  
> 


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~Randy