Commit-ID: 37bb37168dc1b1f5e3ac791aeecd14ef980764fd Gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/tip/37bb37168dc1b1f5e3ac791aeecd14ef980764fd Author: Leo Yan <[email protected]> AuthorDate: Tue, 11 Dec 2018 15:38:26 +0800 Committer: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]> CommitDate: Tue, 18 Dec 2018 12:23:59 -0300
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 <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Mathieu Poirier <[email protected]> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <[email protected]> Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]> Cc: Mike Leach <[email protected]> Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]> Cc: Robert Walker <[email protected]> Cc: coresight ml <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]> --- tools/perf/util/cs-etm-decoder/cs-etm-decoder.c | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) 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);

