[PATCH v1 0/3] coresight: Fix for snapshot mode

[Denis Nikitin]

Hi Leo,

On Fri, May 28, 2021 at 9:16 AM Leo Yan <leo.yan at linaro.org> wrote:
>
> This patch series is to correct the pointer usages for the snapshot
> mode.
>
> Patch 01 allows the AUX trace in the free run mode and only syncs the
> AUX ring buffer when taking snapshot.
>
> Patch 02 is to polish code, it removes the redundant header maintained
> in tmc-etr driver and directly uses pointer perf_output_handle::head.
>
> Patch 03 removes the callback cs_etm_find_snapshot() which wrongly
> calculates the buffer headers; we can simply use the perf's common
> function __auxtrace_mmap__read() for headers calculation.
>
> This patch can be cleanly applied on the mainline kernel with:
>
>   commit 97e5bf604b7a ("Merge branch 'for-5.13-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dennis/percpu")
>
> And it has been tested on Arm64 Juno board.

I have verified the patches on Chrome OS Trogdor device.
They fixed the problem discussed in
https://lists.linaro.org/pipermail/coresight/2021-May/006411.html.

Tested-by: Denis Nikitin <denik at chromium.org>

Thanks,
Denis

>
>
> Leo Yan (3):
>   coresight: etm-perf: Correct buffer syncing for snapshot
>   coresight: tmc-etr: Use perf_output_handle::head for AUX ring buffer
>   perf cs-etm: Remove callback cs_etm_find_snapshot()
>
>  .../hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm-perf.c  |  30 +++-
>  .../hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm-perf.h  |   2 +
>  .../hwtracing/coresight/coresight-tmc-etr.c   |  10 +-
>  tools/perf/arch/arm/util/cs-etm.c             | 133 ------------------
>  4 files changed, 32 insertions(+), 143 deletions(-)
>
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> 2.25.1
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