[PATCH 0/2] perf cs-etm: Queue context packets for frontend

[James Clark]

On 29/05/2026 3:55 pm, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> 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

Yes, and I'm waiting for Leo to take a look too. There will definitely 
be a v2.

Thanks
James