Re: [PATCH V5 0/4] Add driver support for Data Capture and Compare Engine(DCC) for SM8150

[schowdhu@codeaurora.org]

On 2021-06-30 19:19, Souradeep Chowdhury wrote:
> DCC(Data Capture and Compare) is a DMA engine designed for debugging
> purposes.In case of a system
> crash or manual software triggers by the user the DCC hardware stores
> the value at the register
> addresses which can be used for debugging purposes.The DCC driver
> provides the user with sysfs
> interface to configure the register addresses.The options that the DCC
> hardware provides include
> reading from registers,writing to registers,first reading and then
> writing to registers and looping
> through the values of the same register.
> 
> In certain cases a register write needs to be executed for accessing
> the rest of the registers,
> also the user might want to record the changing values of a register
> with time for which he has the
> option to use the loop feature.
> 
> The options mentioned above are exposed to the user by sysfs files
> once the driver is probed.The
> details and usage of this sysfs files are documented in
> Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-driver-dcc.
> 
> As an example let us consider a couple of debug scenarios where DCC
> has been proved to be effective
> for debugging purposes:-
> 
> i)TimeStamp Related Issue
> 
> On SC7180, there was a coresight timestamp issue where it would
> occasionally be all 0 instead of proper
> timestamp values.
> 
> Proper timestamp:
> Idx:3373; ID:10; I_TIMESTAMP : Timestamp.; Updated val =
> 0x13004d8f5b7aa; CC=0x9e
> 
> Zero timestamp:
> Idx:3387; ID:10; I_TIMESTAMP : Timestamp.; Updated val = 0x0; CC=0xa2
> 
> Now this is a non-fatal issue and doesn't need a system reset, but 
> still needs
> to be rootcaused and fixed for those who do care about coresight etm 
> traces.
> Since this is a timestamp issue, we would be looking for any timestamp 
> related
> clocks and such.
> 
> o we get all the clk register details from IP documentation and 
> configure it
> via DCC config syfs node. Before that we set the current linked list.
> 
> /* Set the current linked list */
> echo 3 > /sys/bus/platform/devices/10a2000.dcc/curr_list
> 
> /* Program the linked list with the addresses */
> echo 0x10c004 > /sys/bus/platform/devices/10a2000.dcc/config
> echo 0x10c008 > /sys/bus/platform/devices/10a2000.dcc/config
> echo 0x10c00c > /sys/bus/platform/devices/10a2000.dcc/config
> echo 0x10c010 > /sys/bus/platform/devices/10a2000.dcc/config
> ..... and so on for other timestamp related clk registers
> 
> /* Other way of specifying is in "addr len" pair, in below case it
> specifies to capture 4 words starting 0x10C004 */
> 
> echo 0x10C004 4 > /sys/bus/platform/devices/10a2000.dcc/config
> 
> /* Enable DCC */
> echo 1 > /sys/bus/platform/devices/10a2000.dcc/enable
> 
> /* Run the timestamp test for working case */
> 
> /* Send SW trigger */
> echo 1 > /sys/bus/platform/devices/10a2000.dcc/trigger
> 
> /* Read SRAM */
> cat /dev/dcc_sram > dcc_sram1.bin
> 
> /* Run the timestamp test for non-working case */
> 
> /* Send SW trigger */
> echo 1 > /sys/bus/platform/devices/10a2000.dcc/trigger
> 
> /* Read SRAM */
> cat /dev/dcc_sram > dcc_sram2.bin
> 
> Get the parser from [1] and checkout the latest branch.
> 
> /* Parse the SRAM bin */
> python dcc_parser.py -s dcc_sram1.bin --v2 -o output/
> python dcc_parser.py -s dcc_sram2.bin --v2 -o output/
> 
> Sample parsed output of dcc_sram1.bin:
> 
> <hwioDump version="1">
>         <timestamp>03/14/21</timestamp>
>             <generator>Linux DCC Parser</generator>
>                 <chip name="None" version="None">
>                 <register address="0x0010c004" value="0x80000000" />
>                 <register address="0x0010c008" value="0x00000008" />
>                 <register address="0x0010c00c" value="0x80004220" />
>                 <register address="0x0010c010" value="0x80000000" />
>             </chip>
>     <next_ll_offset>next_ll_offset : 0x1c </next_ll_offset>
> </hwioDump>
> 
> ii)NOC register errors
> 
> A particular class of registers called NOC which are functional
> registers was reporting
> errors while logging the values.To trace these errors the DCC has been
> used effectively.
> The steps followed were similar to the ones mentioned above.
> In addition to NOC registers a few other dependent registers were
> configured in DCC to
> monitor it's values during a crash. A look at the dependent register
> values revealed that
> the crash was happening due to a secured access to one of these
> dependent registers.
> All these debugging activity and finding the root cause was achieved 
> using DCC.
> 
> DCC parser is available at the following open source location
> 
> https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/platform/vendor/qcom-opensource/tools/tree/dcc_parser
> 
> Changes in v5:
> 
> *Fixed the issue with timeout faced while polling dcc_status register 
> in case
>  of software triggers.Increased the timeout from 100 us to 5000 us to 
> enable
>  dcc to process larger register sets in case of software triggers.
> 
> Souradeep Chowdhury (4):
>   dt-bindings: Added the yaml bindings for DCC
>   soc: qcom: dcc:Add driver support for Data Capture and Compare
>     unit(DCC)
>   MAINTAINERS: Add the entry for DCC(Data Capture and Compare) driver
>     support
>   arm64: dts: qcom: sm8150: Add Data Capture and Compare(DCC) support
>     node
> 
>  Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-driver-dcc         |  114 ++
>  .../devicetree/bindings/arm/msm/qcom,dcc.yaml      |   40 +
>  MAINTAINERS                                        |    8 +
>  arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/sm8150.dtsi               |    6 +
>  drivers/soc/qcom/Kconfig                           |    8 +
>  drivers/soc/qcom/Makefile                          |    1 +
>  drivers/soc/qcom/dcc.c                             | 1534 
> ++++++++++++++++++++
>  7 files changed, 1711 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-driver-dcc
>  create mode 100644 
> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/msm/qcom,dcc.yaml
>  create mode 100644 drivers/soc/qcom/dcc.c

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