Re: [PATCH v4 00/30] coresight: Support for ACPI bindings

[Leo Yan]

Hi Suzuki, Mathieu,

On Tue, May 28, 2019 at 01:19:24PM +0800, Leo Yan wrote:

[...]

> After I applied this patch set, I found all device names under
> '/sys/bus/event_source/devices/cs_etm/sinks/' have been changed as
> below on my DB410c board:
> # ls /sys/bus/event_source/devices/cs_etm/sinks/
> tmc_etf0  tmc_etr0  tpiu0
> 
> This leads to below command failure when open PMU device:
> # perf record -e cs_etm/@826000.etr/ --per-thread uname
> failed to set sink "826000.etr" on event cs_etm/@826000.etr/ with 2 (No such file or directory)
> 
> I must use below command so that perf can match string with the
> device name under '/sys/bus/event_source/devices/cs_etm/sinks/':
> # perf record -e cs_etm/@tmc_etr0/ --per-thread uname
> 
> Seems to me, this is an unexpected change and when I worked on the
> patch set v2, IIRC that version still can use '826000.etr' to open PMU
> device.
> 
> Please help confirm for this.  Thanks!

Finally, this is narrowed down to the patch 09/30 'coresight: Use
coresight device names for sinks in PMU attribute', so this is
delibrately to change to use new name format for perf command;
if so, maybe also update the documentation to reflect this change?

Thanks,
Leo Yan