[PATCH v4 0/7] Arm CoreSight: Support AUX pause and resume

[Suzuki K Poulose]

On 01/04/2025 19:07, Leo Yan wrote:
> This series is to enable AUX pause and resume on Arm CoreSight.
> 
> The first patch extracts the trace unit controlling operations to two
> functions.  These two functions will be used by AUX pause and resume.
> 
> Patches 02 and 03 change the ETMv4 driver to prepare callback functions
> for AUX pause and resume.
> 
> Patch 04 changes the ETM perf layer to support AUX pause and resume in a
> perf session.  The patch 05 re-enables sinks after buffer update, based
> on it, the patch 06 updates buffer on AUX pause occasion, which can
> mitigate the trace data lose issue.
> 
> Patch 07 documents the AUX pause usages with Arm CoreSight.
> 
> This patch set has been verified on the Hikey960 board.
> 
> It is suggested to disable CPUIdle (add `nohlt` option in Linux command
> line) when verifying this series.  ETM and funnel drivers are found
> issues during CPU suspend and resume which will be addressed separately.
> 

The series looks good to me, except for the comment on the Patch 1.

I would like to get an Ack from James as he has looked at in the past.

Suzuki


> Changes from v3:
> - Re-enabled sink in buffer update callbacks (Suzuki).
> 
> Changes from v2:
> - Rebased on CoreSight next branch.
> - Dropped the uAPI 'update_buf_on_pause' and updated document
>    respectively (Suzuki).
> - Renamed ETM callbacks to .pause_perf() and .resume_perf() (Suzuki).
> - Minor improvement for error handling in the AUX resume flow.
> 
> Changes from v1:
> - Added validation function pointers in pause and resume APIs (Mike).
> 
> 
> Leo Yan (7):
>    coresight: etm4x: Extract the trace unit controlling
>    coresight: Introduce pause and resume APIs for source
>    coresight: etm4x: Hook pause and resume callbacks
>    coresight: perf: Support AUX trace pause and resume
>    coresight: tmc: Re-enable sink after buffer update
>    coresight: perf: Update buffer on AUX pause
>    Documentation: coresight: Document AUX pause and resume
> 
>   Documentation/trace/coresight/coresight-perf.rst   |  31 +++++++++
>   drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-core.c       |  22 +++++++
>   drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm-perf.c   |  84 +++++++++++++++++++++++-
>   drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm4x-core.c | 143 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------
>   drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm4x.h      |   2 +
>   drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-priv.h       |   2 +
>   drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-tmc-etf.c    |   9 +++
>   drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-tmc-etr.c    |  10 +++
>   include/linux/coresight.h                          |   4 ++
>   9 files changed, 265 insertions(+), 42 deletions(-)
>