Re: [PATCH 0/2] perf cs-etm: Queue context packets for frontend

[James Clark]

On 29/05/2026 3:55 pm, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> On Tue, May 26, 2026 at 12:14:35PM +0100, James Clark wrote:
> > Fix thread tracking when decoding Coresight trace and add a new test for
> > it.
> >
> > Unfortunately the test has to be added as a separate binary like the
> > other existing Coresight workloads which needs a bit of makefile
> > boilerplate. Ideally it would be a builtin Perf test workload, but Perf
> > has a lot of dependencies and generates a lot of trace when starting up
> > which makes tracing tests very slow because all that has to be decoded.
> >
> > Hopefully I can find a generic way to enable Perf events at the
> > beginning of the workload and then I can migrate everything from
> > tools/perf/tests/shell/coresight to Perf test workloads, but that will
> > have to be done as a separate change.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: James Clark <james.clark@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> James, there are some review comments from Sashiko, some looks
> legitimate, wdyt?
>
> - Arnaldo

Yes, and I'm waiting for Leo to take a look too. There will definitely 
be a v2.

Thanks
James