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authorLeo Yan <leo.yan@linaro.org>2018-12-11 10:38:26 +0300
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2018-12-18 18:23:59 +0300
commit37bb37168dc1b1f5e3ac791aeecd14ef980764fd (patch)
tree5a723f430486c51bac9a4553165a66210369dfef /tools
parent49ccf87bfb9e8517ab2f019e95845760c4c3a562 (diff)
downloadlinux-37bb37168dc1b1f5e3ac791aeecd14ef980764fd.tar.xz
perf cs-etm: Treat NO_SYNC element as trace discontinuity
The CoreSight tracer driver might insert barrier packets between different buffers, thus the decoder can spot the boundaries based on the barrier packet; it is possible for the decoder to hit a barrier packet and emit a NO_SYNC element, then the decoder will find a periodic synchronisation point inside that next trace block that starts the trace again but does not have the TRACE_ON element as indicator - usually because this trace block has wrapped the buffer so we have lost the original point when the trace was enabled. In the first case it causes the insertion of a OCSD_GEN_TRC_ELEM_NO_SYNC in the middle of the tracing stream, but as we were not handling the NO_SYNC element properly this ends up making users miss the discontinuity indications. Though OCSD_GEN_TRC_ELEM_NO_SYNC is different from CS_ETM_TRACE_ON when output from the decoder, both indicate that the trace data is discontinuous; this patch treats OCSD_GEN_TRC_ELEM_NO_SYNC as a trace discontinuity and generates a CS_ETM_DISCONTINUITY packet for it, so cs-etm can handle the discontinuity for this case, finally it saves the last trace data for the previous trace block and restart samples for the new block. Signed-off-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Mike Leach <mike.leach@linaro.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Robert Walker <robert.walker@arm.com> Cc: coresight ml <coresight@lists.linaro.org> Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1544513908-16805-7-git-send-email-leo.yan@linaro.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools')
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/util/cs-etm-decoder/cs-etm-decoder.c1
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/cs-etm-decoder/cs-etm-decoder.c b/tools/perf/util/cs-etm-decoder/cs-etm-decoder.c
index 1039f364f4cc..bee026e76a4c 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/cs-etm-decoder/cs-etm-decoder.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/cs-etm-decoder/cs-etm-decoder.c
@@ -410,7 +410,6 @@ static ocsd_datapath_resp_t cs_etm_decoder__gen_trace_elem_printer(
case OCSD_GEN_TRC_ELEM_UNKNOWN:
break;
case OCSD_GEN_TRC_ELEM_NO_SYNC:
- break;
case OCSD_GEN_TRC_ELEM_TRACE_ON:
resp = cs_etm_decoder__buffer_discontinuity(decoder,
trace_chan_id);