[PATCH V4 16/18] coresight: tmc: implementing TMC-ETF AUX space API

Suzuki K Poulose Suzuki.Poulose at arm.com
Wed Apr 27 10:25:29 PDT 2016


On 27/04/16 18:22, Mathieu Poirier wrote:
> On 27 April 2016 at 05:21, Suzuki K Poulose <Suzuki.Poulose at arm.com> wrote:
>> On 26/04/16 23:10, Mathieu Poirier wrote:
>>>
>>> This patch implement the AUX area interfaces required to
>>> use the TMC (configured as an ETF) from the Perf sub-system.
>>>
>>> The heuristic is heavily borrowed from the ETB10 implementation.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier at linaro.org>
>>
>>
>>> +
>>> +               /*
>>> +                * Make sure the new size is aligned in accordance with
>>> the
>>> +                * requirement explained above.
>>> +                */
>>> +               to_read = handle->size & mask;
>>> +               /* Move the RAM read pointer up */
>>> +               read_ptr = (write_ptr + drvdata->size) - to_read;
>>> +               /* Make sure we are still within our limits */
>>> +               read_ptr &= ~(drvdata->size - 1);
>>
>>
>> Correct me if I am wrong, I think this will break for ETR configuration
>> (used from the following
>> patch 17/18). Since, for ETR, RRP/RWP will return the lower 32bit AXI
>> address (not the queue offset).
>> So the last step would really spoil the read_ptr. We might have to set the
>> read_ptr by adding the
>> appropriate offset from DBAL0.
>
> That's a very good catch.  It also means we ETR support (17/18) has to
> be dropped from this set.  I will do a respin of this patch only.

And you also need (a separate patch) to fix the etb10 driver where this bug originated.

Suzuki



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