linux-kernel - [PATCH V4 2/4] Documentations: Add explanations of the case for non-configurable masters

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Message-Id: <1456814109-21311-3-git-send-email-zhang.chunyan@linaro.org>
Date:	Tue,  1 Mar 2016 14:35:07 +0800
From:	Chunyan Zhang <zhang.chunyan@...aro.org>
To:	mathieu.poirier@...aro.org, alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com
Cc:	mike.leach@....com, Michael.Williams@....com, al.grant@....com,
	tor@...com, nicolas.guion@...com, pratikp@...eaurora.org,
	zhang.lyra@...il.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-api@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-doc@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH V4 2/4] Documentations: Add explanations of the case for non-configurable masters

For some STM hardware (e.g. ARM CoreSight STM), the masterID associated
to a source is set at the hardware level and not user configurable.
Since the masterID information isn't available to SW, introducing
a new value of -1 to reflect this reality.

Signed-off-by: Chunyan Zhang <zhang.chunyan@...aro.org>
---
 Documentation/trace/stm.txt | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/trace/stm.txt b/Documentation/trace/stm.txt
index ea035f9..f03bc2b 100644
--- a/Documentation/trace/stm.txt
+++ b/Documentation/trace/stm.txt
@@ -47,6 +47,12 @@ through 127 in it. Now, any producer (trace source) identifying itself
 with "user" identification string will be allocated a master and
 channel from within these ranges.
 
+$ cat /config/stp-policy/dummy_stm.my-policy/user/masters
+-1 -1
+
+Would indicate the masters for this rule are set in hardware and
+not configurable in user space.
+
 These rules can be nested, for example, one can define a rule "dummy"
 under "user" directory from the example above and this new rule will
 be used for trace sources with the id string of "user/dummy".
-- 
1.9.1