Linux coresight arm64 : Incorrect data in cstrace.bin

Suzuki K Poulose suzuki.poulose at arm.com
Wed Jul 5 01:26:43 PDT 2023


Hi Radhe Shyam

On 05/07/2023 05:38, Pandey, Radhey Shyam wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am using linux 6.1 kernel coresight framework to capture ETM trace.
> Enabled coresight driver and added coresight component device node
> in DTS. With that, we could probe all coresight components.
> 
> But when we do capture using sysfs and then read the trace.bin using
> ptm2human we see invalid trace data.  Trace content changes on each
> capture. Any pointers to help narrow down the issue?
> 
> Tried: sysfs capture and perf (with OpenCSD enabled)
> 
> Development board: VCK190 :
>   https://docs.xilinx.com/r/en-US/ug1366-vck190-eval-bd https://www.xilinx.com/support/documents/architecture-manuals/am011-versal-acap-trm.pdf
> 
> xilinx-vck190-20231:/home/petalinux# dmesg | grep -i amba
> [    0.301054] Serial: AMBA PL011 UART driver
> [    0.306226] amba f0c20000.funnel: Fixing up cyclic dependency with f0d70000.etm
> [    0.313624] amba f0c20000.funnel: Fixing up cyclic dependency with f0d30000.etm
> [    0.321110] amba f0c30000.etf: Fixing up cyclic dependency with f0c20000.funnel
> [    1.470247] Serial: AMBA driver
> xilinx-vck190-20231:/home/petalinux# dmesg | grep -i coresight
> [    1.865006]  cs_system_cfg: CoreSight Configuration manager initialised
> [    1.876858] coresight etm0: CPU0: etm v4.0 initialized
> [    1.885666] coresight etm1: CPU1: etm v4.0 initialized
> [    1.894435] coresight-cpu-debug f0d00000.debug1: Coresight debug-CPU0 initialized
> [    1.902072] coresight-cpu-debug f0d40000.debug1: Coresight debug-CPU1 initialized
> 
> xilinx-vck190-20231:/home/petalinux# ls /sys/bus/coresight/devices/
> etm0      etm1      funnel0   tmc_etf0
> 
>   cd /sys/bus/coresight/devices/
> echo 1 > tmc_etf0/enable_sink
> echo 1 > etm0/enable_source
> echo 0 > etm0/enable_source
> echo 0 > tmc_etf0/enable_sink
> cd /root/ dd if=/dev/tmc_etf0 of=cstrace_28Jun.bin
> 
> ./ptm2human/ptm2human -e -i cstrace.bin -d

Please note that ptm2human is for PTM trace decoding and
ETMv4 uses a different format and thus is not compatible.

> 
> I also tried OpenCSD integration with PERF.

Have you made sure the perf is "linked" to the opencsd ?

$ ldd $(which perf) | grep opencsd

With opencsd in, perf report -D should be able to decode the
trace packets.


Suzuki

> 
> 0x1e0 at perf.data [0x90]: event: 69
> .
> . ... raw event: size 144 bytes
> .  0000:  45 00 00 00 00 00 90 00 04 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  E...............
> .  0010:  48 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  H...............
> .  0020:  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 74 03 00 00 00 00 00 00  ........t.......
> .  0030:  49 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  I...............
> .  0040:  01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 74 03 00 00 00 00 00 00  ........t.......
> .  0050:  4a 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  J...............
> .  0060:  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 74 03 00 00 00 00 00 00  ........t.......
> .  0070:  4b 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  K...............
> .  0080:  01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 74 03 00 00 00 00 00 00  ........t.......
>                                                                             
> 0 0 0x1e0 [0x90]: PERF_RECORD_ID_INDEX nr: 4
>   ... id: 72  idx: 0  cpu: 0  tid: 884
>   ... id: 73  idx: 1  cpu: 1  tid: 884
>   ... id: 74  idx: 0  cpu: 0  tid: 884
>   ... id: 75  idx: 1  cpu: 1  tid: 884
>                                              
> 0x270 at perf.data [0xc8]: event: 70
> .
> . ... raw event: size 200 bytes
> .  0000:  46 00 00 00 00 00 c8 00 03 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  F...............
> .  0010:  01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 08 00 00 00  ................
> .  0020:  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40  ........@@@@@@@@
> .  0030:  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 07 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
> .  0040:  40 08 00 00 00 00 00 00 10 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  @...............
> .  0050:  a1 0e 00 28 00 00 00 00 01 f4 00 41 00 00 00 00  ...(.......A....
> .  0060:  88 04 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
> .  0070:  cc 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40  ........@@@@@@@@
> .  0080:  01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 07 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
> .  0090:  40 08 00 00 00 00 00 00 12 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  @...............
> .  00a0:  a1 0e 00 28 00 00 00 00 01 f4 00 41 00 00 00 00  ...(.......A....
> .  00b0:  88 04 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
> .  00c0:  cc 00 00 00 00 00 00 00                          ........
>                                                                             
> 0 0 0x270 [0xc8]: PERF_RECORD_AUXTRACE_INFO type: 3
> - log 58/58 100%
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Radhey




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