Linux coresight arm64 : Incorrect data in cstrace.bin

Pandey, Radhey Shyam radhey.shyam.pandey at amd.com
Tue Jul 11 02:30:18 PDT 2023


> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Clark <james.clark at arm.com>
> Sent: Friday, July 7, 2023 9:21 PM
> To: Pandey, Radhey Shyam <radhey.shyam.pandey at amd.com>
> Cc: coresight at lists.linaro.org; linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org;
> mathieu.poirier at linaro.org; mike.leach at linaro.org;
> alexander.shishkin at linux.intel.com; Sarangi, Anirudha
> <anirudha.sarangi at amd.com>
> Subject: Re: Linux coresight arm64 : Incorrect data in cstrace.bin
> 
> 
> 
> On 07/07/2023 09:49, James Clark wrote:
> >
> >
> > On 06/07/2023 13:47, Pandey, Radhey Shyam wrote:
> >>> -----Original Message-----
> >>> From: Pandey, Radhey Shyam
> >>> Sent: Thursday, July 6, 2023 5:40 PM
> >>> To: James Clark <james.clark at arm.com>
> >>> Cc: coresight at lists.linaro.org;
> >>> linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org; Suzuki K Poulose
> >>> <suzuki.poulose at arm.com>; mathieu.poirier at linaro.org;
> >>> mike.leach at linaro.org; leo.yan at linaro.org;
> >>> alexander.shishkin at linux.intel.com; Sarangi, Anirudha
> >>> <anirudha.sarangi at amd.com>
> >>> Subject: RE: Linux coresight arm64 : Incorrect data in cstrace.bin
> >>>
> >>>> -----Original Message-----
> >>>> From: James Clark <james.clark at arm.com>
> >>>> Sent: Wednesday, July 5, 2023 5:44 PM
> >>>> To: Pandey, Radhey Shyam <radhey.shyam.pandey at amd.com>
> >>>> Cc: coresight at lists.linaro.org;
> >>>> linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org;
> >>>> Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose at arm.com>;
> >>>> mathieu.poirier at linaro.org; mike.leach at linaro.org;
> >>>> leo.yan at linaro.org; alexander.shishkin at linux.intel.com; Sarangi,
> >>>> Anirudha <anirudha.sarangi at amd.com>
> >>>> Subject: Re: Linux coresight arm64 : Incorrect data in cstrace.bin
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> On 05/07/2023 12:48, Pandey, Radhey Shyam wrote:
> >>>>>> -----Original Message-----
> >>>>>> From: James Clark <james.clark at arm.com>
> >>>>>> Sent: Wednesday, July 5, 2023 4:29 PM
> >>>>>> To: Pandey, Radhey Shyam <radhey.shyam.pandey at amd.com>
> >>>>>> Cc: coresight at lists.linaro.org;
> >>>>>> linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org;
> >>>>>> Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose at arm.com>;
> >>>>>> mathieu.poirier at linaro.org; mike.leach at linaro.org;
> >>>>>> leo.yan at linaro.org; alexander.shishkin at linux.intel.com
> >>>>>> Subject: Re: Linux coresight arm64 : Incorrect data in
> >>>>>> cstrace.bin
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> On 05/07/2023 10:56, Pandey, Radhey Shyam wrote:
> >>>>>>>> -----Original Message-----
> >>>>>>>> From: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose at arm.com>
> >>>>>>>> Sent: Wednesday, July 5, 2023 1:57 PM
> >>>>>>>> To: Pandey, Radhey Shyam <radhey.shyam.pandey at amd.com>;
> >>>>>>>> mathieu.poirier at linaro.org; mike.leach at linaro.org;
> >>>>>>>> leo.yan at linaro.org; alexander.shishkin at linux.intel.com
> >>>>>>>> Cc: coresight at lists.linaro.org;
> >>>>>>>> linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org
> >>>>>>>> Subject: Re: Linux coresight arm64 : Incorrect data in
> >>>>>>>> cstrace.bin
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> Hi Radhe Shyam
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> On 05/07/2023 05:38, Pandey, Radhey Shyam wrote:
> >>>>>>>>> Hi,
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> I am using linux 6.1 kernel coresight framework to capture ETM
> >>> trace.
> >>>>>>>>> Enabled coresight driver and added coresight component device
> >>>>>>>>> node in DTS. With that, we could probe all coresight components.
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> But when we do capture using sysfs and then read the trace.bin
> >>>>>>>>> using ptm2human we see invalid trace data.  Trace content
> >>>>>>>>> changes on each capture. Any pointers to help narrow down the
> >>> issue?
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> Tried: sysfs capture and perf (with OpenCSD enabled)
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> Development board: VCK190 :
> >>>>>>>>>   https://docs.xilinx.com/r/en-US/ug1366-vck190-eval-bd
> >>>>>>>>> https://www.xilinx.com/support/documents/architecture-
> >>>>>>>> manuals/am011-ve
> >>>>>>>>> rsal-acap-trm.pdf
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> xilinx-vck190-20231:/home/petalinux# dmesg | grep -i amba
> >>>>>>>>> [    0.301054] Serial: AMBA PL011 UART driver
> >>>>>>>>> [    0.306226] amba f0c20000.funnel: Fixing up cyclic dependency
> >>> with
> >>>>>>>> f0d70000.etm
> >>>>>>>>> [    0.313624] amba f0c20000.funnel: Fixing up cyclic dependency
> >>> with
> >>>>>>>> f0d30000.etm
> >>>>>>>>> [    0.321110] amba f0c30000.etf: Fixing up cyclic dependency with
> >>>>>>>> f0c20000.funnel
> >>>>>>>>> [    1.470247] Serial: AMBA driver
> >>>>>>>>> xilinx-vck190-20231:/home/petalinux# dmesg | grep -i coresight
> >>>>>>>>> [    1.865006]  cs_system_cfg: CoreSight Configuration manager
> >>>> initialised
> >>>>>>>>> [    1.876858] coresight etm0: CPU0: etm v4.0 initialized
> >>>>>>>>> [    1.885666] coresight etm1: CPU1: etm v4.0 initialized
> >>>>>>>>> [    1.894435] coresight-cpu-debug f0d00000.debug1: Coresight
> >>> debug-
> >>>>>> CPU0
> >>>>>>>> initialized
> >>>>>>>>> [    1.902072] coresight-cpu-debug f0d40000.debug1: Coresight
> >>> debug-
> >>>>>> CPU1
> >>>>>>>> initialized
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> xilinx-vck190-20231:/home/petalinux# ls
> >>> /sys/bus/coresight/devices/
> >>>>>>>>> etm0      etm1      funnel0   tmc_etf0
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>   cd /sys/bus/coresight/devices/ echo 1 > tmc_etf0/enable_sink
> >>>>>>>>> echo 1 > etm0/enable_source echo 0 > etm0/enable_source echo
> 0
> >>>>>>>>> > tmc_etf0/enable_sink cd /root/ dd if=/dev/tmc_etf0
> >>>>>>>>> of=cstrace_28Jun.bin
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> ./ptm2human/ptm2human -e -i cstrace.bin -d
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> Please note that ptm2human is for PTM trace decoding and
> >>>>>>>> ETMv4 uses a different format and thus is not compatible.
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> I also tried OpenCSD integration with PERF.
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> Have you made sure the perf is "linked" to the opencsd ?
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Earlier I statically linked but after adding CORESIGHT=1.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> linux-xlnx$ make ARCH=arm64 NO_LIBELF=1 NO_JVMTI=1 VF=1
> >>>>>> CORESIGHT=1 -C
> >>>>>>> tools/perf/
> >>>>>>> make: Entering directory 'linux-xlnx/tools/perf'
> >>>>>>>   BUILD:   Doing 'make -j24' parallel build
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Makefile.config:520: *** Error: No libopencsd library found or
> >>>>>>> the version
> >>>>>> is not up-to-date.
> >>>>>>> Please install recent libopencsd to build with CORESIGHT=1.  Stop.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> echo $CSINCLUDES
> >>>>>>> /scratch/development/coresight/my-opencsd/decoder/include
> >>>>>>> radheys at xhdradheys41:/scratch/development/linux-xlnx$ ls
> >>>>>>> /scratch/development/coresight/my-opencsd/decoder/include
> >>>>>>> common  i_dec  interfaces  mem_acc  opencsd  opencsd.h
> >>>>>>> pkt_printers
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> echo $CSLIBS
> >>>>>>> /scratch/development/coresight/my-opencsd/decoder/lib/builddir
> >>>>>>> radheys at xhdradheys41:/scratch/development/linux-xlnx$ ls
> >>>>>> /scratch/development/coresight/my-opencsd/decoder/lib/builddir
> >>>>>>> libopencsd.a        libopencsd_c_api.so    libopencsd_c_api.so.1.4.0
> >>>>>> libopencsd.so.1
> >>>>>>> libopencsd_c_api.a  libopencsd_c_api.so.1  libopencsd.so
> >>>>>> libopencsd.so.1.4.0
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Anything I am missing to fix this opencsd lib not found?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> There is a minimum version of 1.1.1 but it looks like you are
> >>>>>> using higher than that so that part should be fine.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Personally I "make install" OpenCSD to the system path. I had a
> >>>>>> play around with $CSLIBS it and maybe there is also some
> >>>>>> stickyness to the feature detection so a make clean might help to
> >>>>>> make sure the errors you are seeing are real.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Lastly you can print the output of why the feature test
> >>>>>> compilation failed which might help. I see some linking issues in
> >>>>>> there if I delete my system installed version of OpenCSD, so
> >>>>>> there might be a bug with just using CSINCLUDES and CSLIBS:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>  $ cat  tools/build/feature/test-libopencsd.make.output
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>   /usr/bin/ld: warning: libopencsd.so.1, needed by opencsd-
> >>>>>> local/decoder/lib/builddir//libopencsd_c_api.so, not found (try
> >>>>>> using -rpath or -rpath-link)
> >>>>>>   /usr/bin/ld: opencsd-
> local/decoder/lib/builddir//libopencsd_c_api.so:
> >>>>>> undefined reference to `vtable for StmTrcPacket'
> >>>>>>   /usr/bin/ld: opencsd-
> local/decoder/lib/builddir//libopencsd_c_api.so:
> >>>>>> undefined reference to `DecodeTree::getDecoderStats(unsigned
> >>>>>> char, _ocsd_decode_stats**)'
> >>>>>>   /usr/bin/ld: opencsd-
> local/decoder/lib/builddir//libopencsd_c_api.so:
> >>>>>> undefined reference to
> >>>>>> `DecodeTree::addRawFramePrinter(RawFramePrinter**, unsigned
> int)'
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Can you try the make install and see if that works? If that works
> >>>>>> but the other way doesn't I can try looking into why its not and
> >>>>>> make a
> >>> fix.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I tried make install but still it errors out. Looking at
> >>>>> make.output I am seeing multiple undefined references.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> NOTE I have to still set CSINCLUDES and CSLIBS as we are
> >>>>> cross-compiling Perf on a x86 host machine.
> >>>>
> >>>> This should still work if you make install them to the arch
> >>>> specific folder for example /usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/. If do 'apt
> >>>> install
> >>> libopencsd-dev:arm64'
> >>>> I would get the arm ones in there.
> >>>>
> >>>> Then if I cross build like this I get openCSD linked:
> >>>>
> >>>>   make ARCH=arm64 CROSS_COMPILE=aarch64-linux-gnu- -C tools/perf
> >>>> CORESIGHT=1
> >>>>
> >>>> So for now you should be able to work around the issue in this way.
> >>>
> >>> I tried copying opencsd libraries to /usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu but
> >>> still I see undefined reference. Is it because I am using
> >>> cross-compiler from server (toolchain path set to $PATH variable)?
> >>>
> >>> /proj/<snip>/Vitis/2023.2/gnu/aarch64/lin/aarch64-linux/bin/aarch64-
> >>> linux-
> >>> gnu-gcc
> >>> I assume CSLIBS and CSINCLUDES should be sufficient to cross compile
> >>> perf with coresight support?
> >>
> >> FYI, I tried with static linking and could proceed to perf compilation.
> >>
> >
> > Static compilation works because the link line is slightly different
> > (it includes -lopencsd rather than just -lopencsd_c_api:
> >
> >   ifeq ($(findstring -static,${LDFLAGS}),-static)
> >      OPENCSDLIBS += -lopencsd -lstdc++
> >
> > I think that this is related to the issue and there have been some
> > recent changes around here. So yes I'll look into the fix for the non
> > static and $CSLIBS mode.
> 
> There was an issue, thanks for the report. The fix should be here:
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230707154546.456720-1-
> james.clark at arm.com/T/#u
> 
> Please give it a go and reply with the outcome on that thread.

Thanks for the fix. I updated on mainline thread. 



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