Re: [RFC PATCH 0/8] coresight: syscfg: dynamic load, resource management

[Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org>]

Hey Mike,

On Wed, May 12, 2021 at 10:17:44PM +0100, Mike Leach wrote:
> This patchset represents the second phase of CoreSight configuration
> management.
> 
> 1) API updated to allow dynamic load and unload of configurations and
> features. Dependency management between loaded sets is added.
> 
> 2) New configuration and feature sets can be added using a loadable module.
> An example in /samples/coresight is provided to demonstrate this.
> 

I tried to compile the sample module and I get:

samples/coresight/coresight-cfg-sample.c:7:10: fatal error: coresight-config.h: No such file or directory
 #include "coresight-config.h"
          ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
compilation terminated.

Can you reproduce on your side?

Thanks,
Mathieu

> 3) Resource management API is added. This allows the system to ensure that
> loaded configurations and features are only loaded onto devices that can
> support them.
> 
> Further - it ensures that configurations with multiple features cannot over
> allocate resources.
> 
> 4) configfs can be used to activate a configuration which will then be used
> when controlling tracing using sysfs.
> 
> 5) Resource management is added to ETMv4 configurations. This allows current
> and future features and configurations to be defined in terms of resources
> used as well as registers to be programmed.
> 
> Defining features in this way allows the resource management to operate
> correctly.
> 
> The perf event parsing is also adjusted to allow the ETM resources requested
> on the command line (e.g. address filters, etc) to be correctly handled
> using resoruce management alongside the complex configurations such as
> autofdo.
> 
> Applies to coresight/next - which is 5.13-rc1 + initial Coresight configuration
> patchset.
> 
> To follow in future revisions / sets:-
> a) load of additional config and features by configfs
> b) ECT and CTI and other Coresight components support for configuration and
> features.
> 
> 
> Mike Leach (8):
>   coresight: syscfg: Update API to allow dynamic load and unload
>   coresight: syscfg: Update load API for config loadable modules
>   coresight: syscfg: Example CoreSight configuration loadable module
>   coresight: configfs: Allow configfs to activate configuration.
>   coresight: syscfg: Add API to check and validate device resources.
>   coresight: etm4x: syscfg: Add resource management to etm4x.
>   coresight: etm4x: Update perf event resource handling.
>   coresight: etm4x: Update configuration example.
> 
>  MAINTAINERS                                   |   1 +
>  .../hwtracing/coresight/coresight-cfg-afdo.c  |  38 +-
>  .../coresight/coresight-cfg-preload.c         |   9 +-
>  .../hwtracing/coresight/coresight-config.c    |  71 ++-
>  .../hwtracing/coresight/coresight-config.h    |  45 +-
>  .../hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm4x-cfg.c | 533 ++++++++++++++++++
>  .../hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm4x-cfg.h | 196 ++++++-
>  .../coresight/coresight-etm4x-core.c          | 250 +++-----
>  .../coresight/coresight-syscfg-configfs.c     |  87 +++
>  .../coresight/coresight-syscfg-configfs.h     |   4 +
>  .../hwtracing/coresight/coresight-syscfg.c    | 390 +++++++++++--
>  .../hwtracing/coresight/coresight-syscfg.h    |  38 +-
>  include/linux/coresight.h                     |   2 +
>  samples/Kconfig                               |   9 +
>  samples/Makefile                              |   1 +
>  samples/coresight/Makefile                    |   4 +
>  samples/coresight/coresight-cfg-sample.c      |  73 +++
>  17 files changed, 1511 insertions(+), 240 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 samples/coresight/Makefile
>  create mode 100644 samples/coresight/coresight-cfg-sample.c
> 
> -- 
> 2.17.1
> 

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