[PATCH 1/2] perf: tools: cs-etm: Fix print issue for Coresight debug in ETE/TRBE trace

Mike Leach mike.leach at arm.com
Fri Mar 13 06:21:28 PDT 2026


Building perf with CORESIGHT=1 and the optional CSTRACE_RAW=1 enables
additional debug printing of raw trace data when using command:-
perf report --dump.

This raw trace prints the CoreSight formatted trace frames, which may be
used to investigate suspected issues with trace quality / corruption /
decode.

These frames are not present in ETE + TRBE trace.
This fix removes the unnecessary call to print these frames.

Due to an addtional fault with the OpenCSD library, this call when ETE/TRBE
are being decoded will cause a segfault in perf. This fix also prevents
that problem for perf using older (<= 1.8.0 version) OpenCSD libraries.

Fixes: 68ffe3902898 ("perf tools: Add decoder mechanic to support dumping trace data")

Reported-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan at arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Leach <mike.leach at arm.com>
---
 tools/perf/util/cs-etm-decoder/cs-etm-decoder.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/cs-etm-decoder/cs-etm-decoder.c b/tools/perf/util/cs-etm-decoder/cs-etm-decoder.c
index 3050fe212666..f7e89693cf16 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/cs-etm-decoder/cs-etm-decoder.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/cs-etm-decoder/cs-etm-decoder.c
@@ -739,7 +739,8 @@ cs_etm_decoder__new(int decoders, struct cs_etm_decoder_params *d_params,
 		goto err_free_decoder;
 
 	/* init raw frame logging if required */
-	cs_etm_decoder__init_raw_frame_logging(d_params, decoder);
+	if (format == OCSD_TRC_SRC_FRAME_FORMATTED)
+		cs_etm_decoder__init_raw_frame_logging(d_params, decoder);
 
 	for (i = 0; i < decoders; i++) {
 		ret = cs_etm_decoder__create_etm_decoder(d_params,
-- 
2.43.0




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