[PATCH 0/2] perf cs-etm: Queue context packets for frontend
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
acme at kernel.org
Fri May 29 07:55:36 PDT 2026
On Tue, May 26, 2026 at 12:14:35PM +0100, James Clark wrote:
> Fix thread tracking when decoding Coresight trace and add a new test for
> it.
>
> Unfortunately the test has to be added as a separate binary like the
> other existing Coresight workloads which needs a bit of makefile
> boilerplate. Ideally it would be a builtin Perf test workload, but Perf
> has a lot of dependencies and generates a lot of trace when starting up
> which makes tracing tests very slow because all that has to be decoded.
>
> Hopefully I can find a generic way to enable Perf events at the
> beginning of the workload and then I can migrate everything from
> tools/perf/tests/shell/coresight to Perf test workloads, but that will
> have to be done as a separate change.
>
> Signed-off-by: James Clark <james.clark at linaro.org>
James, there are some review comments from Sashiko, some looks
legitimate, wdyt?
- Arnaldo
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