[PATCH v3 0/4] perf: cs-etm: HW_ID improvements

From: James Clark

Date: Fri Oct 02 2026 - 07:17:24 EST


The driver might not always be able to write HW_IDs, but we don't need
them for unformatted mode anyway, so fix that in commit ("perf cs-etm:
Synthesize missing HW_ID mappings for raw trace").

Include some other minor improvements encountered on the way to appease
Sashiko, like properly freeing queues and ("perf: cs-etm: Respect
--no-itrace option") makes debugging broken Coresight perf.data files
easier.

Signed-off-by: James Clark <james.clark@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Changes in v3:
- Remove old b4 prerequisite metadata that's no longer relevant.
- Link to v2: https://patch.msgid.link/20261002-james-cs-hw_id-output-failure-v2-0-7a194aa61173@xxxxxxxxxx

Changes in v2:
- Drop driver changes and move to https://lore.kernel.org/linux-perf-users/20261001-james-cs-retry-hw_id-v1-0-4d45ab46cde7@xxxxxxxxxx/T/#t
- Don't process any HW_IDs for unformatted queues, just create decoders
unconditionally with trace ID 1.
- Use zfree() instead of etmq->decoder = NULL
- Remove dependency on "[PATCH v2 00/14] perf cs-etm: Per-thread mode
fixes and snapshot wrap support", it wasn't functionally dependant,
just touching some of the same lines.
- Link to v1: https://patch.msgid.link/20260821-james-cs-hw_id-output-failure-v1-0-9d532ddabcc3@xxxxxxxxxx

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James Clark (3):
perf: cs-etm: Don't add global v0 HW_IDs to unformatted queues
perf cs-etm: Free partially created queues
perf: cs-etm: Respect --no-itrace option

Leo Yan (1):
perf cs-etm: Synthesize missing HW_ID mappings for raw trace

tools/perf/util/auxtrace.c | 2 +-
tools/perf/util/auxtrace.h | 1 +
tools/perf/util/cs-etm-decoder/cs-etm-decoder.c | 12 +-
tools/perf/util/cs-etm-decoder/cs-etm-decoder.h | 2 +-
tools/perf/util/cs-etm.c | 184 +++++++++++++++---------
5 files changed, 123 insertions(+), 78 deletions(-)
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base-commit: 705da5b15ab89ba97b11eedbe507c2fd83d31cb9
change-id: 20260706-james-cs-hw_id-output-failure-1d06d042ef96

Best regards,
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James Clark <james.clark@xxxxxxxxxx>