Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] coresight: Support exclude_guest with Feat_TRF and nVHE

[Marc Zyngier]

On Fri, 04 Aug 2023 11:13:10 +0100,
James Clark <james.clark@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm looking for help in testing this and for feedback on whether it's
> useful to anyone. Testing it requires hardware that has Feat_TRF (v8.4)
> but no TRBE. This is because TRBE usage is disabled in nVHE guests.
>
> I don't currently have any access to any hardware, and the FVP model
> can only do self hosted trace using TRBE.
> 
> Currently with nVHE you would always get trace from guests, and
> filtering out isn't possible without this patchset. In comparison, with
> VHE guests, they never generate guest trace without [1]. I think the
> existence of trace rather than lack of could suggest that this change is
> less useful than [1]. Also the restricted set of hardware that it works
> on supports that too.

It'd be nice to have some sort of feature parity, but it seems like a
vanishingly small target of users having access to an ETM sink.

> 
> Apart from compilation and checking that the exclude guest settings
> are correctly programmed on guest switch, this is untested by me.

I'll have a look at the series, but none of my HW fits in this
description (my ARMv8.4+ boxes don't have any form of tracing).

Thanks,

	M.

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