[PATCH V5 00/12] perf/core: Add ability for an event to "pause" or "resume" AUX area tracing

[Adrian Hunter]

On 24/04/24 13:39, Adrian Hunter wrote:
> On 11/04/24 15:02, Adrian Hunter wrote:
>> On 8/02/24 13:31, Adrian Hunter wrote:
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> Hardware traces, such as instruction traces, can produce a vast amount of
>>> trace data, so being able to reduce tracing to more specific circumstances
>>> can be useful.
>>>
>>> The ability to pause or resume tracing when another event happens, can do
>>> that.
>>>
>>> These patches add such a facilty and show how it would work for Intel
>>> Processor Trace.
>>>
>>> Maintainers of other AUX area tracing implementations are requested to
>>> consider if this is something they might employ and then whether or not
>>> the ABI would work for them.  Note, thank you to James Clark (ARM) for
>>> evaluating the API for Coresight.  Suzuki K Poulose (ARM) also responded
>>> positively to the RFC.
>>>
>>> Changes to perf tools are now (since V4) fleshed out.
>>>
>>>
>>> Changes in V5:
>>>
>>>     perf/core: Add aux_pause, aux_resume, aux_start_paused
>>> 	Added James' Ack
>>>
>>>     perf/x86/intel: Do not enable large PEBS for events with aux actions or aux sampling
>>> 	New patch
>>>
>>>     perf tools
>>> 	Added Ian's Ack
>>>
>>> Changes in V4:
>>>
>>>     perf/core: Add aux_pause, aux_resume, aux_start_paused
>>> 	Rename aux_output_cfg -> aux_action
>>> 	Reorder aux_action bits from:
>>> 		aux_pause, aux_resume, aux_start_paused
>>> 	to:
>>> 		aux_start_paused, aux_pause, aux_resume
>>> 	Fix aux_action bits __u64 -> __u32
>>>
>>>     coresight: Have a stab at support for pause / resume
>>> 	Dropped
>>>
>>>     perf tools
>>> 	All new patches
>>>
>>> Changes in RFC V3:
>>>
>>>     coresight: Have a stab at support for pause / resume
>>> 	'mode' -> 'flags' so it at least compiles
>>>
>>> Changes in RFC V2:
>>>
>>> 	Use ->stop() / ->start() instead of ->pause_resume()
>>> 	Move aux_start_paused bit into aux_output_cfg
>>> 	Tighten up when Intel PT pause / resume is allowed
>>> 	Add an example of how it might work for CoreSight
>>
>> Any more comments?
>>
> 
> Ping
> 

Kernel patch still applies.

There was a V6 for it:

	https://lore.kernel.org/linux-perf-users/20240216093128.77452-1-adrian.hunter@intel.com/