From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Subject: [PATCH 31/63] perf cs-etm: Treat NO_SYNC element as trace discontinuity Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2018 19:07:01 -0300 Message-ID: <20181218220733.15839-32-acme@kernel.org> References: <20181218220733.15839-1-acme@kernel.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20181218220733.15839-1-acme@kernel.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Ingo Molnar Cc: Clark Williams , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org, Leo Yan , Alexander Shishkin , Jiri Olsa , Mike Leach , Namhyung Kim , Robert Walker , coresight ml , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo List-Id: linux-perf-users.vger.kernel.org From: Leo Yan 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 Reviewed-by: Mathieu Poirier Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Mike Leach Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Robert Walker Cc: coresight ml 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 --- 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); -- 2.19.2