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Coresight - HW Assisted Tracing on ARM
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:Author: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org>
:Date: September 11th, 2014
Introduction
------------
Coresight is an umbrella of technologies allowing for the debugging of ARM
based SoC. It includes solutions for JTAG and HW assisted tracing. This
document is concerned with the latter.
HW assisted tracing is becoming increasingly useful when dealing with systems
that have many SoCs and other components like GPU and DMA engines. ARM has
developed a HW assisted tracing solution by means of different components, each
being added to a design at synthesis time to cater to specific tracing needs.
Components are generally categorised as source, link and sinks and are
(usually) discovered using the AMBA bus.
"Sources" generate a compressed stream representing the processor instruction
path based on tracing scenarios as configured by users. From there the stream
flows through the coresight system (via ATB bus) using links that are connecting
the emanating source to a sink(s). Sinks serve as endpoints to the coresight
implementation, either storing the compressed stream in a memory buffer or
creating an interface to the outside world where data can be transferred to a
host without fear of filling up the onboard coresight memory buffer.
At typical coresight system would look like this::
*****************************************************************
**************************** AMBA AXI ****************************===||
***************************************************************** ||
^ ^ | ||
| | * **
0000000 ::::: 0000000 ::::: ::::: @@@@@@@ ||||||||||||
0 CPU 0<-->: C : 0 CPU 0<-->: C : : C : @ STM @ || System ||
|->0000000 : T : |->0000000 : T : : T :<--->@@@@@ || Memory ||
| #######<-->: I : | #######<-->: I : : I : @@@<-| ||||||||||||
| # ETM # ::::: | # PTM # ::::: ::::: @ |
| ##### ^ ^ | ##### ^ ! ^ ! . | |||||||||
| |->### | ! | |->### | ! | ! . | || DAP ||
| | # | ! | | # | ! | ! . | |||||||||
| | . | ! | | . | ! | ! . | | |
| | . | ! | | . | ! | ! . | | *
| | . | ! | | . | ! | ! . | | SWD/
| | . | ! | | . | ! | ! . | | JTAG
*****************************************************************<-|
*************************** AMBA Debug APB ************************
*****************************************************************
| . ! . ! ! . |
| . * . * * . |
*****************************************************************
******************** Cross Trigger Matrix (CTM) *******************
*****************************************************************
| . ^ . . |
| * ! * * |
*****************************************************************
****************** AMBA Advanced Trace Bus (ATB) ******************
*****************************************************************
| ! =============== |
| * ===== F =====<---------|
| ::::::::: ==== U ====
|-->:: CTI ::<!! === N ===
| ::::::::: ! == N ==
| ^ * == E ==
| ! &&&&&&&&& IIIIIII == L ==
|------>&& ETB &&<......II I =======
| ! &&&&&&&&& II I .
| ! I I .
| ! I REP I<..........
| ! I I
| !!>&&&&&&&&& II I *Source: ARM ltd.
|------>& TPIU &<......II I DAP = Debug Access Port
&&&&&&&&& IIIIIII ETM = Embedded Trace Macrocell
; PTM = Program Trace Macrocell
; CTI = Cross Trigger Interface
* ETB = Embedded Trace Buffer
To trace port TPIU= Trace Port Interface Unit
SWD = Serial Wire Debug
While on target configuration of the components is done via the APB bus,
all trace data are carried out-of-band on the ATB bus. The CTM provides
a way to aggregate and distribute signals between CoreSight components.
The coresight framework provides a central point to represent, configure and
manage coresight devices on a platform. This first implementation centers on
the basic tracing functionality, enabling components such ETM/PTM, funnel,
replicator, TMC, TPIU and ETB. Future work will enable more
intricate IP blocks such as STM and CTI.
Acronyms and Classification
---------------------------
Acronyms:
PTM:
Program Trace Macrocell
ETM:
Embedded Trace Macrocell
STM:
System trace Macrocell
ETB:
Embedded Trace Buffer
ITM:
Instrumentation Trace Macrocell
TPIU:
Trace Port Interface Unit
TMC-ETR:
Trace Memory Controller, configured as Embedded Trace Router
TMC-ETF:
Trace Memory Controller, configured as Embedded Trace FIFO
CTI:
Cross Trigger Interface
Classification:
Source:
ETMv3.x ETMv4, PTMv1.0, PTMv1.1, STM, STM500, ITM
Link:
Funnel, replicator (intelligent or not), TMC-ETR
Sinks:
ETBv1.0, ETB1.1, TPIU, TMC-ETF
Misc:
CTI
Device Tree Bindings
--------------------
See Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/arm,coresight-\*.yaml for details.
As of this writing drivers for ITM, STMs and CTIs are not provided but are
expected to be added as the solution matures.
Framework and implementation
----------------------------
The coresight framework provides a central point to represent, configure and
manage coresight devices on a platform. Any coresight compliant device can
register with the framework for as long as they use the right APIs:
.. c:function:: struct coresight_device *coresight_register(struct coresight_desc *desc);
.. c:function:: void coresight_unregister(struct coresight_device *csdev);
The registering function is taking a ``struct coresight_desc *desc`` and
register the device with the core framework. The unregister function takes
a reference to a ``struct coresight_device *csdev`` obtained at registration time.
If everything goes well during the registration process the new devices will
show up under /sys/bus/coresight/devices, as showns here for a TC2 platform::
root:~# ls /sys/bus/coresight/devices/
replicator 20030000.tpiu 2201c000.ptm 2203c000.etm 2203e000.etm
20010000.etb 20040000.funnel 2201d000.ptm 2203d000.etm
root:~#
The functions take a ``struct coresight_device``, which looks like this::
struct coresight_desc {
enum coresight_dev_type type;
struct coresight_dev_subtype subtype;
const struct coresight_ops *ops;
struct coresight_platform_data *pdata;
struct device *dev;
const struct attribute_group **groups;
};
The "coresight_dev_type" identifies what the device is, i.e, source link or
sink while the "coresight_dev_subtype" will characterise that type further.
The ``struct coresight_ops`` is mandatory and will tell the framework how to
perform base operations related to the components, each component having
a different set of requirement. For that ``struct coresight_ops_sink``,
``struct coresight_ops_link`` and ``struct coresight_ops_source`` have been
provided.
The next field ``struct coresight_platform_data *pdata`` is acquired by calling
``of_get_coresight_platform_data()``, as part of the driver's _probe routine and
``struct device *dev`` gets the device reference embedded in the ``amba_device``::
static int etm_probe(struct amba_device *adev, const struct amba_id *id)
{
...
...
drvdata->dev = &adev->dev;
...
}
Specific class of device (source, link, or sink) have generic operations
that can be performed on them (see ``struct coresight_ops``). The ``**groups``
is a list of sysfs entries pertaining to operations
specific to that component only. "Implementation defined" customisations are
expected to be accessed and controlled using those entries.
Device Naming scheme
--------------------
The devices that appear on the "coresight" bus were named the same as their
parent devices, i.e, the real devices that appears on AMBA bus or the platform bus.
Thus the names were based on the Linux Open Firmware layer naming convention,
which follows the base physical address of the device followed by the device
type. e.g::
root:~# ls /sys/bus/coresight/devices/
20010000.etf 20040000.funnel 20100000.stm 22040000.etm
22140000.etm 230c0000.funnel 23240000.etm 20030000.tpiu
20070000.etr 20120000.replicator 220c0000.funnel
23040000.etm 23140000.etm 23340000.etm
However, with the introduction of ACPI support, the names of the real
devices are a bit cryptic and non-obvious. Thus, a new naming scheme was
introduced to use more generic names based on the type of the device. The
following rules apply::
1) Devices that are bound to CPUs, are named based on the CPU logical
number.
e.g, ETM bound to CPU0 is named "etm0"
2) All other devices follow a pattern, "<device_type_prefix>N", where :
<device_type_prefix> - A prefix specific to the type of the device
N - a sequential number assigned based on the order
of probing.
e.g, tmc_etf0, tmc_etr0, funnel0, funnel1
Thus, with the new scheme the devices could appear as ::
root:~# ls /sys/bus/coresight/devices/
etm0 etm1 etm2 etm3 etm4 etm5 funnel0
funnel1 funnel2 replicator0 stm0 tmc_etf0 tmc_etr0 tpiu0
Some of the examples below might refer to old naming scheme and some
to the newer scheme, to give a confirmation that what you see on your
system is not unexpected. One must use the "names" as they appear on
the system under specified locations.
Topology Representation
-----------------------
Each CoreSight component has a ``connections`` directory which will contain
links to other CoreSight components. This allows the user to explore the trace
topology and for larger systems, determine the most appropriate sink for a
given source. The connection information can also be used to establish
which CTI devices are connected to a given component. This directory contains a
``nr_links`` attribute detailing the number of links in the directory.
For an ETM source, in this case ``etm0`` on a Juno platform, a typical
arrangement will be::
linaro-developer:~# ls - l /sys/bus/coresight/devices/etm0/connections
<file details> cti_cpu0 -> ../../../23020000.cti/cti_cpu0
<file details> nr_links
<file details> out:0 -> ../../../230c0000.funnel/funnel2
Following the out port to ``funnel2``::
linaro-developer:~# ls -l /sys/bus/coresight/devices/funnel2/connections
<file details> in:0 -> ../../../23040000.etm/etm0
<file details> in:1 -> ../../../23140000.etm/etm3
<file details> in:2 -> ../../../23240000.etm/etm4
<file details> in:3 -> ../../../23340000.etm/etm5
<file details> nr_links
<file details> out:0 -> ../../../20040000.funnel/funnel0
And again to ``funnel0``::
linaro-developer:~# ls -l /sys/bus/coresight/devices/funnel0/connections
<file details> in:0 -> ../../../220c0000.funnel/funnel1
<file details> in:1 -> ../../../230c0000.funnel/funnel2
<file details> nr_links
<file details> out:0 -> ../../../20010000.etf/tmc_etf0
Finding the first sink ``tmc_etf0``. This can be used to collect data
as a sink, or as a link to propagate further along the chain::
linaro-developer:~# ls -l /sys/bus/coresight/devices/tmc_etf0/connections
<file details> cti_sys0 -> ../../../20020000.cti/cti_sys0
<file details> in:0 -> ../../../20040000.funnel/funnel0
<file details> nr_links
<file details> out:0 -> ../../../20150000.funnel/funnel4
via ``funnel4``::
linaro-developer:~# ls -l /sys/bus/coresight/devices/funnel4/connections
<file details> in:0 -> ../../../20010000.etf/tmc_etf0
<file details> in:1 -> ../../../20140000.etf/tmc_etf1
<file details> nr_links
<file details> out:0 -> ../../../20120000.replicator/replicator0
and a ``replicator0``::
linaro-developer:~# ls -l /sys/bus/coresight/devices/replicator0/connections
<file details> in:0 -> ../../../20150000.funnel/funnel4
<file details> nr_links
<file details> out:0 -> ../../../20030000.tpiu/tpiu0
<file details> out:1 -> ../../../20070000.etr/tmc_etr0
Arriving at the final sink in the chain, ``tmc_etr0``::
linaro-developer:~# ls -l /sys/bus/coresight/devices/tmc_etr0/connections
<file details> cti_sys0 -> ../../../20020000.cti/cti_sys0
<file details> in:0 -> ../../../20120000.replicator/replicator0
<file details> nr_links
As described below, when using sysfs it is sufficient to enable a sink and
a source for successful trace. The framework will correctly enable all
intermediate links as required.
Note: ``cti_sys0`` appears in two of the connections lists above.
CTIs can connect to multiple devices and are arranged in a star topology
via the CTM. See (Documentation/trace/coresight/coresight-ect.rst)
[#fourth]_ for further details.
Looking at this device we see 4 connections::
linaro-developer:~# ls -l /sys/bus/coresight/devices/cti_sys0/connections
<file details> nr_links
<file details> stm0 -> ../../../20100000.stm/stm0
<file details> tmc_etf0 -> ../../../20010000.etf/tmc_etf0
<file details> tmc_etr0 -> ../../../20070000.etr/tmc_etr0
<file details> tpiu0 -> ../../../20030000.tpiu/tpiu0
How to use the tracer modules
-----------------------------
There are two ways to use the Coresight framework:
1. using the perf cmd line tools.
2. interacting directly with the Coresight devices using the sysFS interface.
Preference is given to the former as using the sysFS interface
requires a deep understanding of the Coresight HW. The following sections
provide details on using both methods.
Using the sysFS interface
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Before trace collection can start, a coresight sink needs to be identified.
There is no limit on the amount of sinks (nor sources) that can be enabled at
any given moment. As a generic operation, all device pertaining to the sink
class will have an "active" entry in sysfs::
root:/sys/bus/coresight/devices# ls
replicator 20030000.tpiu 2201c000.ptm 2203c000.etm 2203e000.etm
20010000.etb 20040000.funnel 2201d000.ptm 2203d000.etm
root:/sys/bus/coresight/devices# ls 20010000.etb
enable_sink status trigger_cntr
root:/sys/bus/coresight/devices# echo 1 > 20010000.etb/enable_sink
root:/sys/bus/coresight/devices# cat 20010000.etb/enable_sink
1
root:/sys/bus/coresight/devices#
At boot time the current etm3x driver will configure the first address
comparator with "_stext" and "_etext", essentially tracing any instruction
that falls within that range. As such "enabling" a source will immediately
trigger a trace capture::
root:/sys/bus/coresight/devices# echo 1 > 2201c000.ptm/enable_source
root:/sys/bus/coresight/devices# cat 2201c000.ptm/enable_source
1
root:/sys/bus/coresight/devices# cat 20010000.etb/status
Depth: 0x2000
Status: 0x1
RAM read ptr: 0x0
RAM wrt ptr: 0x19d3 <----- The write pointer is moving
Trigger cnt: 0x0
Control: 0x1
Flush status: 0x0
Flush ctrl: 0x2001
root:/sys/bus/coresight/devices#
Trace collection is stopped the same way::
root:/sys/bus/coresight/devices# echo 0 > 2201c000.ptm/enable_source
root:/sys/bus/coresight/devices#
The content of the ETB buffer can be harvested directly from /dev::
root:/sys/bus/coresight/devices# dd if=/dev/20010000.etb \
of=~/cstrace.bin
64+0 records in
64+0 records out
32768 bytes (33 kB) copied, 0.00125258 s, 26.2 MB/s
root:/sys/bus/coresight/devices#
The file cstrace.bin can be decompressed using "ptm2human", DS-5 or Trace32.
Following is a DS-5 output of an experimental loop that increments a variable up
to a certain value. The example is simple and yet provides a glimpse of the
wealth of possibilities that coresight provides.
::
Info Tracing enabled
Instruction 106378866 0x8026B53C E52DE004 false PUSH {lr}
Instruction 0 0x8026B540 E24DD00C false SUB sp,sp,#0xc
Instruction 0 0x8026B544 E3A03000 false MOV r3,#0
Instruction 0 0x8026B548 E58D3004 false STR r3,[sp,#4]
Instruction 0 0x8026B54C E59D3004 false LDR r3,[sp,#4]
Instruction 0 0x8026B550 E3530004 false CMP r3,#4
Instruction 0 0x8026B554 E2833001 false ADD r3,r3,#1
Instruction 0 0x8026B558 E58D3004 false STR r3,[sp,#4]
Instruction 0 0x8026B55C DAFFFFFA true BLE {pc}-0x10 ; 0x8026b54c
Timestamp Timestamp: 17106715833
Instruction 319 0x8026B54C E59D3004 false LDR r3,[sp,#4]
Instruction 0 0x8026B550 E3530004 false CMP r3,#4
Instruction 0 0x8026B554 E2833001 false ADD r3,r3,#1
Instruction 0 0x8026B558 E58D3004 false STR r3,[sp,#4]
Instruction 0 0x8026B55C DAFFFFFA true BLE {pc}-0x10 ; 0x8026b54c
Instruction 9 0x8026B54C E59D3004 false LDR r3,[sp,#4]
Instruction 0 0x8026B550 E3530004 false CMP r3,#4
Instruction 0 0x8026B554 E2833001 false ADD r3,r3,#1
Instruction 0 0x8026B558 E58D3004 false STR r3,[sp,#4]
Instruction 0 0x8026B55C DAFFFFFA true BLE {pc}-0x10 ; 0x8026b54c
Instruction 7 0x8026B54C E59D3004 false LDR r3,[sp,#4]
Instruction 0 0x8026B550 E3530004 false CMP r3,#4
Instruction 0 0x8026B554 E2833001 false ADD r3,r3,#1
Instruction 0 0x8026B558 E58D3004 false STR r3,[sp,#4]
Instruction 0 0x8026B55C DAFFFFFA true BLE {pc}-0x10 ; 0x8026b54c
Instruction 7 0x8026B54C E59D3004 false LDR r3,[sp,#4]
Instruction 0 0x8026B550 E3530004 false CMP r3,#4
Instruction 0 0x8026B554 E2833001 false ADD r3,r3,#1
Instruction 0 0x8026B558 E58D3004 false STR r3,[sp,#4]
Instruction 0 0x8026B55C DAFFFFFA true BLE {pc}-0x10 ; 0x8026b54c
Instruction 10 0x8026B54C E59D3004 false LDR r3,[sp,#4]
Instruction 0 0x8026B550 E3530004 false CMP r3,#4
Instruction 0 0x8026B554 E2833001 false ADD r3,r3,#1
Instruction 0 0x8026B558 E58D3004 false STR r3,[sp,#4]
Instruction 0 0x8026B55C DAFFFFFA true BLE {pc}-0x10 ; 0x8026b54c
Instruction 6 0x8026B560 EE1D3F30 false MRC p15,#0x0,r3,c13,c0,#1
Instruction 0 0x8026B564 E1A0100D false MOV r1,sp
Instruction 0 0x8026B568 E3C12D7F false BIC r2,r1,#0x1fc0
Instruction 0 0x8026B56C E3C2203F false BIC r2,r2,#0x3f
Instruction 0 0x8026B570 E59D1004 false LDR r1,[sp,#4]
Instruction 0 0x8026B574 E59F0010 false LDR r0,[pc,#16] ; [0x8026B58C] = 0x80550368
Instruction 0 0x8026B578 E592200C false LDR r2,[r2,#0xc]
Instruction 0 0x8026B57C E59221D0 false LDR r2,[r2,#0x1d0]
Instruction 0 0x8026B580 EB07A4CF true BL {pc}+0x1e9344 ; 0x804548c4
Info Tracing enabled
Instruction 13570831 0x8026B584 E28DD00C false ADD sp,sp,#0xc
Instruction 0 0x8026B588 E8BD8000 true LDM sp!,{pc}
Timestamp Timestamp: 17107041535
Using perf framework
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Coresight tracers are represented using the Perf framework's Performance
Monitoring Unit (PMU) abstraction. As such the perf framework takes charge of
controlling when tracing gets enabled based on when the process of interest is
scheduled. When configured in a system, Coresight PMUs will be listed when
queried by the perf command line tool:
linaro@linaro-nano:~$ ./perf list pmu
List of pre-defined events (to be used in -e):
cs_etm// [Kernel PMU event]
linaro@linaro-nano:~$
Regardless of the number of tracers available in a system (usually equal to the
amount of processor cores), the "cs_etm" PMU will be listed only once.
A Coresight PMU works the same way as any other PMU, i.e the name of the PMU is
listed along with configuration options within forward slashes '/'. Since a
Coresight system will typically have more than one sink, the name of the sink to
work with needs to be specified as an event option.
On newer kernels the available sinks are listed in sysFS under
($SYSFS)/bus/event_source/devices/cs_etm/sinks/::
root@localhost:/sys/bus/event_source/devices/cs_etm/sinks# ls
tmc_etf0 tmc_etr0 tpiu0
On older kernels, this may need to be found from the list of coresight devices,
available under ($SYSFS)/bus/coresight/devices/::
root:~# ls /sys/bus/coresight/devices/
etm0 etm1 etm2 etm3 etm4 etm5 funnel0
funnel1 funnel2 replicator0 stm0 tmc_etf0 tmc_etr0 tpiu0
root@linaro-nano:~# perf record -e cs_etm/@tmc_etr0/u --per-thread program
As mentioned above in section "Device Naming scheme", the names of the devices could
look different from what is used in the example above. One must use the device names
as it appears under the sysFS.
The syntax within the forward slashes '/' is important. The '@' character
tells the parser that a sink is about to be specified and that this is the sink
to use for the trace session.
More information on the above and other example on how to use Coresight with
the perf tools can be found in the "HOWTO.md" file of the openCSD gitHub
repository [#third]_.
Advanced perf framework usage
-----------------------------
AutoFDO analysis using the perf tools
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
perf can be used to record and analyze trace of programs.
Execution can be recorded using 'perf record' with the cs_etm event,
specifying the name of the sink to record to, e.g::
perf record -e cs_etm/@tmc_etr0/u --per-thread
The 'perf report' and 'perf script' commands can be used to analyze execution,
synthesizing instruction and branch events from the instruction trace.
'perf inject' can be used to replace the trace data with the synthesized events.
The --itrace option controls the type and frequency of synthesized events
(see perf documentation).
Note that only 64-bit programs are currently supported - further work is
required to support instruction decode of 32-bit Arm programs.
Tracing PID
~~~~~~~~~~~
The kernel can be built to write the PID value into the PE ContextID registers.
For a kernel running at EL1, the PID is stored in CONTEXTIDR_EL1. A PE may
implement Arm Virtualization Host Extensions (VHE), which the kernel can
run at EL2 as a virtualisation host; in this case, the PID value is stored in
CONTEXTIDR_EL2.
perf provides PMU formats that program the ETM to insert these values into the
trace data; the PMU formats are defined as below:
"contextid1": Available on both EL1 kernel and EL2 kernel. When the
kernel is running at EL1, "contextid1" enables the PID
tracing; when the kernel is running at EL2, this enables
tracing the PID of guest applications.
"contextid2": Only usable when the kernel is running at EL2. When
selected, enables PID tracing on EL2 kernel.
"contextid": Will be an alias for the option that enables PID
tracing. I.e,
contextid == contextid1, on EL1 kernel.
contextid == contextid2, on EL2 kernel.
perf will always enable PID tracing at the relevant EL, this is accomplished by
automatically enable the "contextid" config - but for EL2 it is possible to make
specific adjustments using configs "contextid1" and "contextid2", E.g. if a user
wants to trace PIDs for both host and guest, the two configs "contextid1" and
"contextid2" can be set at the same time:
perf record -e cs_etm/contextid1,contextid2/u -- vm
Generating coverage files for Feedback Directed Optimization: AutoFDO
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
'perf inject' accepts the --itrace option in which case tracing data is
removed and replaced with the synthesized events. e.g.
::
perf inject --itrace --strip -i perf.data -o perf.data.new
Below is an example of using ARM ETM for autoFDO. It requires autofdo
(https://github.com/google/autofdo) and gcc version 5. The bubble
sort example is from the AutoFDO tutorial (https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/AutoFDO/Tutorial).
::
$ gcc-5 -O3 sort.c -o sort
$ taskset -c 2 ./sort
Bubble sorting array of 30000 elements
5910 ms
$ perf record -e cs_etm/@tmc_etr0/u --per-thread taskset -c 2 ./sort
Bubble sorting array of 30000 elements
12543 ms
[ perf record: Woken up 35 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 69.640 MB perf.data ]
$ perf inject -i perf.data -o inj.data --itrace=il64 --strip
$ create_gcov --binary=./sort --profile=inj.data --gcov=sort.gcov -gcov_version=1
$ gcc-5 -O3 -fauto-profile=sort.gcov sort.c -o sort_autofdo
$ taskset -c 2 ./sort_autofdo
Bubble sorting array of 30000 elements
5806 ms
Config option formats
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The following strings can be provided between // on the perf command line to enable various options.
They are also listed in the folder /sys/bus/event_source/devices/cs_etm/format/
.. list-table::
:header-rows: 1
* - Option
- Description
* - branch_broadcast
- Session local version of the system wide setting:
:ref:`ETM_MODE_BB <coresight-branch-broadcast>`
* - contextid
- See `Tracing PID`_
* - contextid1
- See `Tracing PID`_
* - contextid2
- See `Tracing PID`_
* - configid
- Selection for a custom configuration. This is an implementation detail and not used directly,
see :ref:`trace/coresight/coresight-config:Using Configurations in perf`
* - preset
- Override for parameters in a custom configuration, see
:ref:`trace/coresight/coresight-config:Using Configurations in perf`
* - sinkid
- Hashed version of the string to select a sink, automatically set when using the @ notation.
This is an internal implementation detail and is not used directly, see `Using perf
framework`_.
* - cycacc
- Session local version of the system wide setting: :ref:`ETMv4_MODE_CYCACC
<coresight-cycle-accurate>`
* - retstack
- Session local version of the system wide setting: :ref:`ETM_MODE_RETURNSTACK
<coresight-return-stack>`
* - timestamp
- Session local version of the system wide setting: :ref:`ETMv4_MODE_TIMESTAMP
<coresight-timestamp>`
How to use the STM module
-------------------------
Using the System Trace Macrocell module is the same as the tracers - the only
difference is that clients are driving the trace capture rather
than the program flow through the code.
As with any other CoreSight component, specifics about the STM tracer can be
found in sysfs with more information on each entry being found in [#first]_::
root@genericarmv8:~# ls /sys/bus/coresight/devices/stm0
enable_source hwevent_select port_enable subsystem uevent
hwevent_enable mgmt port_select traceid
root@genericarmv8:~#
Like any other source a sink needs to be identified and the STM enabled before
being used::
root@genericarmv8:~# echo 1 > /sys/bus/coresight/devices/tmc_etf0/enable_sink
root@genericarmv8:~# echo 1 > /sys/bus/coresight/devices/stm0/enable_source
From there user space applications can request and use channels using the devfs
interface provided for that purpose by the generic STM API::
root@genericarmv8:~# ls -l /dev/stm0
crw------- 1 root root 10, 61 Jan 3 18:11 /dev/stm0
root@genericarmv8:~#
Details on how to use the generic STM API can be found here:
- Documentation/trace/stm.rst [#second]_.
The CTI & CTM Modules
---------------------
The CTI (Cross Trigger Interface) provides a set of trigger signals between
individual CTIs and components, and can propagate these between all CTIs via
channels on the CTM (Cross Trigger Matrix).
A separate documentation file is provided to explain the use of these devices.
(Documentation/trace/coresight/coresight-ect.rst) [#fourth]_.
CoreSight System Configuration
------------------------------
CoreSight components can be complex devices with many programming options.
Furthermore, components can be programmed to interact with each other across the
complete system.
A CoreSight System Configuration manager is provided to allow these complex programming
configurations to be selected and used easily from perf and sysfs.
See the separate document for further information.
(Documentation/trace/coresight/coresight-config.rst) [#fifth]_.
.. [#first] Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-coresight-devices-stm
.. [#second] Documentation/trace/stm.rst
.. [#third] https://github.com/Linaro/perf-opencsd
.. [#fourth] Documentation/trace/coresight/coresight-ect.rst
.. [#fifth] Documentation/trace/coresight/coresight-config.rst