Re: [PATCHv8 2/5] arm64: dts: qcom: msm8998: Add Coresight support

[Sai Prakash Ranjan]

Hi,

On 7/18/2019 3:07 PM, Suzuki K Poulose wrote:
> Using the sysfs doesn't guarantee that the ETR actually uses SG mode, 
> unless
> the buffer size selected is > 1M, which is why I am more interested in the
> perf usage. Alternatively you may configure a larger buffer size (say, 
> 8MB) via:
>
> echo 0x800000 > /sys/bus/coresight/.../tmc_etr0/buffer_size

Yes, you had mentioned about setting buffer size > 1M in the same 
thread[1] and I had followed the same.

[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/1/18/311

> > As said in one of the series initially [1], QCOM msm downstream kernels
> > have been using scatter gather mode and we haven't seen any fatal issues.
> >
> > [1] https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10769535/
>
> I haven't seen any test results there either.

You did not ask for it there ;)

I do not have the test results handy now and those platforms.
I will arrange for them and post some test results.

Just to confirm, do you need some traces or just the buffer size
and sink set?

Thanks,
Sai

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