(subset) [PATCH v5 00/19] coresight: Add support for ETE and TRBE

Suzuki K Poulose suzuki.poulose at arm.com
Tue Mar 23 17:05:26 GMT 2021


On 23/03/2021 16:34, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Mar 2021 12:06:28 +0000, Suzuki K Poulose wrote:
>> This series enables future IP trace features Embedded Trace Extension
>> (ETE) and Trace Buffer Extension (TRBE). This series applies on
>> v5.12-rc4 + some patches queued. A standalone tree is also available here [0].
>> The queued patches (almost there) are included in this posting for
>> the sake of constructing a tree from the posting.
>>
>> ETE is the PE (CPU) trace unit for CPUs, implementing future
>> architecture extensions. ETE overlaps with the ETMv4 architecture, with
>> additions to support the newer architecture features and some restrictions
>> on the supported features w.r.t ETMv4. The ETE support is added by extending
>> the ETMv4 driver to recognise the ETE and handle the features as exposed by
>> the TRCIDRx registers. ETE only supports system instructions access from the
>> host CPU. The ETE could be integrated with a TRBE (see below), or with
>> the legacy CoreSight trace bus (e.g, ETRs). Thus the ETE follows same
>> firmware description as the ETMs and requires a node per instance.
>>
>> [...]
> 
> Applied to fixes, thanks!
> 
> [01/19] kvm: arm64: Hide system instruction access to Trace registers
>          commit: 4af0afe252a2701732c317585f7c3ef6596b8f3d
> 

Thanks Marc !



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