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Message-ID: <6ead4016-a8a2-4572-8f75-682726d04479@arm.com>
Date:   Tue, 10 Jan 2023 09:57:13 +0000
From:   Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@....com>
To:     Mao Jinlong <quic_jinlmao@...cinc.com>,
        Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@...aro.org>,
        Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>,
        Konrad Dybcio <konradybcio@...il.com>,
        Mike Leach <mike.leach@...aro.org>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski+dt@...aro.org>
Cc:     Leo Yan <leo.yan@...aro.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        coresight@...ts.linaro.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
        Tingwei Zhang <quic_tingweiz@...cinc.com>,
        Yuanfang Zhang <quic_yuanfang@...cinc.com>,
        Tao Zhang <quic_taozha@...cinc.com>,
        Trilok Soni <quic_tsoni@...cinc.com>,
        Hao Zhang <quic_hazha@...cinc.com>,
        linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org,
        Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v16 0/8] Coresight: Add support for TPDM and TPDA

On 06/01/2023 09:21, Mao Jinlong wrote:
> This series adds support for the trace performance monitoring and
> diagnostics hardware (TPDM and TPDA). It is composed of two major
> elements.
> a) Changes for original coresight framework to support for TPDM and TPDA.
> b) Add driver code for TPDM and TPDA.
> 
> Introduction of changes for original coresight framework
> Support TPDM as new coresight source.
> Since only STM and ETM are supported as coresight source originally.
> TPDM is a newly added coresight source. We need to change
> the original way of saving coresight path to support more types source
> for coresight driver.
> The following patch is to add support more coresight sources.
>      coresight: core: Use IDR for non-cpu bound sources' paths.
> 
> Introduction of TPDM and TPDA
> TPDM - The trace performance monitoring and diagnostics monitor or TPDM in
> short serves as data collection component for various dataset types
> specified in the QPMDA(Qualcomm performance monitoring and diagnostics
> architecture) spec. The primary use case of the TPDM is to collect data
> from different data sources and send it to a TPDA for packetization,
> timestamping and funneling.
>       Coresight: Add coresight TPDM source driver
>       dt-bindings: arm: Adds CoreSight TPDM hardware definitions
>       coresight-tpdm: Add DSB dataset support
>       coresight-tpdm: Add integration test support
> 
> TPDA - The trace performance monitoring and diagnostics aggregator or
> TPDA in short serves as an arbitration and packetization engine for the
> performance monitoring and diagnostics network as specified in the QPMDA
> (Qualcomm performance monitoring and diagnostics architecture)
> specification. The primary use case of the TPDA is to provide
> packetization, funneling and timestamping of Monitor data as specified
> in the QPMDA specification.
> The following patch is to add driver for TPDA.
>       Coresight: Add TPDA link driver
>       dt-bindings: arm: Adds CoreSight TPDA hardware definitions
> 
> The last patch of this series is a device tree modification, which add
> the TPDM and TPDA configuration to device tree for validating.
>      ARM: dts: msm: Add tpdm mm/prng for sm8250
> 
> Once this series patches are applied properly, the tpdm and tpda nodes
> should be observed at the coresight path /sys/bus/coresight/devices
> e.g.
> /sys/bus/coresight/devices # ls -l | grep tpd
> tpda0 -> ../../../devices/platform/soc@...004000.tpda/tpda0
> tpdm0 -> ../../../devices/platform/soc@...c08000.mm.tpdm/tpdm0
> 
> We can use the commands are similar to the below to validate TPDMs.
> Enable coresight sink first.
> 
> echo 1 > /sys/bus/coresight/devices/tmc_etf0/enable_sink
> echo 1 > /sys/bus/coresight/devices/tpdm0/enable_source
> echo 1 > /sys/bus/coresight/devices/tpdm0/integration_test
> echo 2 > /sys/bus/coresight/devices/tpdm0/integration_test
> The test data will be collected in the coresight sink which is enabled.
> If rwp register of the sink is keeping updating when do
> integration_test (by cat tmc_etf0/mgmt/rwp), it means there is data
> generated from TPDM to sink.
> 
> There must be a tpda between tpdm and the sink. When there are some
> other trace event hw components in the same HW block with tpdm, tpdm
> and these hw components will connect to the coresight funnel. When
> there is only tpdm trace hw in the HW block, tpdm will connect to
> tpda directly.
>    
>      +---------------+                +-------------+
>      |  tpdm@...8000 |                |tpdm@...C000 |
>      +-------|-------+                +------|------+
>              |                               |
>      +-------|-------+                       |
>      | funnel@...b000|                       |
>      +-------|-------+                       |
>              |                               |
>      +-------|-------+                       |
>      |funnel@...d000 |                       |
>      +-------|-------+                       |
>              |                               |
>              |    +---------------+          |
>              +----- tpda@...4000  -----------+
>                   +-------|-------+
>                           |
>                   +-------|-------+
>                   |funnel@...5000 |
>                   +---------------+
> 
> This patch series depends on patch series:
> "[v6,00/14] coresight: Add new API to allocate trace source ID values"
> https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-arm-kernel/cover/20221123195010.6859-1-mike.leach@linaro.org/
> 
> TPDM_TPDA commit tree:
> https://git.codelinaro.org/clo/linux-kernel/coresight/-/commits/tpdm-tpda-v16
> 

Please could you add a documentation for TPDA and TPDM under
Documentation/tracing/coresight/ ?

It need not be part of this series if you don't have to resend it.


Kind regards
Suzuki

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