linux-kernel - [PATCH 0/6] coresight: Add format attribute for setting the timestamp interval

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Message-Id: <20250811-james-cs-syncfreq-v1-0-b001cd6e3404@linaro.org>
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2025 10:32:05 +0100
From: James Clark <james.clark@...aro.org>
To: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@....com>, 
 Mike Leach <mike.leach@...aro.org>, 
 Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>, 
 Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, Leo Yan <leo.yan@....com>
Cc: coresight@...ts.linaro.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, 
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, 
 James Clark <james.clark@...aro.org>
Subject: [PATCH 0/6] coresight: Add format attribute for setting the
 timestamp interval

Do some cleanups then add a new format attribute to set the timestamp
interval for ETMv4 in Perf mode. The current interval is too high for
most use cases, and particularly on the FVP the number of timestamps
generated is excessive.

Although it would be good to make only SYNC timestamps the default and
have counter timestamps opt-in, this would be a breaking change. We
can always do that later, or disable counter timestamps from Perf.

This is added as an event format attribute, rather than a Coresight
config because it's something that the driver is already configuring
automatically in Perf mode with any unused counter, so it's not possible
to modify this with a config.

Applies to coresight/next

Signed-off-by: James Clark <james.clark@...aro.org>
---
James Clark (6):
      coresight: Change syncfreq to be a u8
      coresight: Fix holes in struct etmv4_config
      coresight: Repack struct etmv4_drvdata
      coresight: Refactor etm4_config_timestamp_event()
      coresight: Add format attribute for setting the timestamp interval
      coresight: docs: Document etm4x ts_interval

 Documentation/trace/coresight/coresight.rst        |  14 +++
 drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm-perf.c   |   6 +-
 drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm4x-core.c | 110 +++++++++++++--------
 drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm4x.h      |  86 ++++++++++------
 4 files changed, 144 insertions(+), 72 deletions(-)
---
base-commit: a80198ba650f50d266d7fc4a6c5262df9970f9f2
change-id: 20250724-james-cs-syncfreq-7c2257a38ed3

Best regards,
-- 
James Clark <james.clark@...aro.org>