2023-08-19 12:26:55

by Suzuki K Poulose

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Subject: Re: [PATCH V4 2/3] coresight: etm: Make cycle count threshold user configurable

On 18/08/2023 12:20, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
> Cycle counting is enabled, when requested and supported but with a default
> threshold value ETM_CYC_THRESHOLD_DEFAULT i.e 0x100 getting into TRCCCCTLR,
> representing the minimum interval between cycle count trace packets.
>
> This makes cycle threshold user configurable, from the user space via perf
> event attributes. Although it falls back using ETM_CYC_THRESHOLD_DEFAULT,
> in case no explicit request. As expected it creates a sysfs file as well.
>
> /sys/bus/event_source/devices/cs_etm/format/cc_threshold
>
> New 'cc_threshold' uses 'event->attr.config3' as no more space is available
> in 'event->attr.config1' or 'event->attr.config2'.
>
> Cc: Suzuki K Poulose <[email protected]>
> Cc: Mike Leach <[email protected]>
> Cc: James Clark <[email protected]>
> Cc: Leo Yan <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected]
> Cc: [email protected]
> Cc: [email protected]
> Cc: [email protected]
> Reviewed-by: Mike Leach <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <[email protected]>
> ---
> drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm-perf.c | 2 ++
> drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm4x-core.c | 12 ++++++++++--
> 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm-perf.c b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm-perf.c
> index 5ca6278baff4..09f75dffae60 100644
> --- a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm-perf.c
> +++ b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm-perf.c
> @@ -68,6 +68,7 @@ PMU_FORMAT_ATTR(preset, "config:0-3");
> PMU_FORMAT_ATTR(sinkid, "config2:0-31");
> /* config ID - set if a system configuration is selected */
> PMU_FORMAT_ATTR(configid, "config2:32-63");
> +PMU_FORMAT_ATTR(cc_threshold, "config3:0-11");
>
>
> /*
> @@ -101,6 +102,7 @@ static struct attribute *etm_config_formats_attr[] = {
> &format_attr_preset.attr,
> &format_attr_configid.attr,
> &format_attr_branch_broadcast.attr,
> + &format_attr_cc_threshold.attr,
> NULL,
> };
>
> diff --git a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm4x-core.c b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm4x-core.c
> index 591fab73ee79..3193dafa7618 100644
> --- a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm4x-core.c
> +++ b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm4x-core.c
> @@ -635,7 +635,7 @@ static int etm4_parse_event_config(struct coresight_device *csdev,
> struct etmv4_config *config = &drvdata->config;
> struct perf_event_attr *attr = &event->attr;
> unsigned long cfg_hash;
> - int preset;
> + int preset, cc_threshold;
>
> /* Clear configuration from previous run */
> memset(config, 0, sizeof(struct etmv4_config));
> @@ -658,7 +658,15 @@ static int etm4_parse_event_config(struct coresight_device *csdev,
> if (attr->config & BIT(ETM_OPT_CYCACC)) {
> config->cfg |= TRCCONFIGR_CCI;
> /* TRM: Must program this for cycacc to work */
> - config->ccctlr = ETM_CYC_THRESHOLD_DEFAULT;
> + cc_threshold = attr->config3 & ETM_CYC_THRESHOLD_MASK;
> + if (cc_threshold) {
> + if (cc_threshold < drvdata->ccitmin)
> + config->ccctlr = drvdata->ccitmin;
> + else
> + config->ccctlr = cc_threshold;
> + } else {
> + config->ccctlr = ETM_CYC_THRESHOLD_DEFAULT;

Ideally this must be the ccitmin ? Theoretically, default value could be
bigger than the minimum value supported by the implementation (i.e.,
ccitmin)

Suzuki

> + }
> }
> if (attr->config & BIT(ETM_OPT_TS)) {
> /*