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Allocate a byte for advertising the PMU specific format type of the given AUX record. A PMU could end up providing hardware trace data in multiple format in a single session. e.g, The format of hardware buffer produced by CoreSight ETM PMU depends on the type of the "sink" device used for collection for an event (Traditional TMC-ETR/Bs with formatting or TRBEs without any formatting). # Boring story of why this is needed. Goto The_End_of_Story for skipping. CoreSight ETM trace allows instruction level tracing of Arm CPUs. The ETM generates the CPU excecution trace and pumps it into CoreSight AMBA Trace Bus and is collected by a different CoreSight component (traditionally CoreSight TMC-ETR /ETB/ETF), called "sink". Important to note that there is no guarantee that every CPU has a dedicated sink. Thus multiple ETMs could pump the trace data into the same "sink" and thus they apply additional formatting of the trace data for the user to decode it properly and attribute the trace data to the corresponding ETM. However, with the introduction of Arm Trace buffer Extensions (TRBE), we now have a dedicated per-CPU architected sink for collecting the trace. Since the TRBE is always per-CPU, it doesn't apply any formatting of the trace. The support for this driver is under review [1]. Now a system could have a per-cpu TRBE and one or more shared TMC-ETRs on the system. A user could choose a "specific" sink for a perf session (e.g, a TMC-ETR) or the driver could automatically select the nearest sink for a given ETM. It is possible that some ETMs could end up using TMC-ETR (e.g, if the TRBE is not usable on the CPU) while the others using TRBE in a single perf session. Thus we now have "formatted" trace collected from TMC-ETR and "unformatted" trace collected from TRBE. However, we don't get into a situation where a single event could end up using TMC-ETR & TRBE. i.e, any AUX buffer is guaranteed to be either RAW or FORMATTED, but not a mix of both. As for perf decoding, we need to know the type of the data in the individual AUX buffers, so that it can set up the "OpenCSD" (library for decoding CoreSight trace) decoder instance appropriately. Thus the perf.data file must conatin the hints for the tool to decode the data correctly. Since this is a runtime variable, and perf tool doesn't have a control on what sink gets used (in case of automatic sink selection), we need this information made available from the PMU driver for each AUX record. # The_End_of_Story Bug: 174685394 Cc: Peter Ziljstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com Cc: mingo@redhat.com Cc: will@kernel.org Cc: mark.rutland@arm.com Cc: mike.leach@linaro.org Cc: acme@kernel.org Cc: jolsa@redhat.com Cc: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirer@linaro.org> Reviewed by: Mike Leach <mike.leach@linaro.org> Acked-by: Peter Ziljstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/20210225193543.2920532-2-suzuki.poulose@arm.com/ Signed-off-by: Qais Yousef <qais.yousef@arm.com> Change-Id: I93fcf8ec74d57af7370b02dbba6828c6aafbad49
How do I submit patches to Android Common Kernels
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BEST: Make all of your changes to upstream Linux. If appropriate, backport to the stable releases. These patches will be merged automatically in the corresponding common kernels. If the patch is already in upstream Linux, post a backport of the patch that conforms to the patch requirements below.
- Do not send patches upstream that contain only symbol exports. To be considered for upstream Linux,
additions of
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL()require an in-tree modular driver that uses the symbol -- so include the new driver or changes to an existing driver in the same patchset as the export. - When sending patches upstream, the commit message must contain a clear case for why the patch is needed and beneficial to the community. Enabling out-of-tree drivers or functionality is not not a persuasive case.
- Do not send patches upstream that contain only symbol exports. To be considered for upstream Linux,
additions of
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LESS GOOD: Develop your patches out-of-tree (from an upstream Linux point-of-view). Unless these are fixing an Android-specific bug, these are very unlikely to be accepted unless they have been coordinated with kernel-team@android.com. If you want to proceed, post a patch that conforms to the patch requirements below.
Common Kernel patch requirements
- All patches must conform to the Linux kernel coding standards and pass
script/checkpatch.pl - Patches shall not break gki_defconfig or allmodconfig builds for arm, arm64, x86, x86_64 architectures (see https://source.android.com/setup/build/building-kernels)
- If the patch is not merged from an upstream branch, the subject must be tagged with the type of patch:
UPSTREAM:,BACKPORT:,FROMGIT:,FROMLIST:, orANDROID:. - All patches must have a
Change-Id:tag (see https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/Documentation/user-changeid.html) - If an Android bug has been assigned, there must be a
Bug:tag. - All patches must have a
Signed-off-by:tag by the author and the submitter
Additional requirements are listed below based on patch type
Requirements for backports from mainline Linux: UPSTREAM:, BACKPORT:
- If the patch is a cherry-pick from Linux mainline with no changes at all
- tag the patch subject with
UPSTREAM:. - add upstream commit information with a
(cherry picked from commit ...)line - Example:
- if the upstream commit message is
- tag the patch subject with
important patch from upstream
This is the detailed description of the important patch
Signed-off-by: Fred Jones <fred.jones@foo.org>
- then Joe Smith would upload the patch for the common kernel as
UPSTREAM: important patch from upstream
This is the detailed description of the important patch
Signed-off-by: Fred Jones <fred.jones@foo.org>
Bug: 135791357
Change-Id: I4caaaa566ea080fa148c5e768bb1a0b6f7201c01
(cherry picked from commit c31e73121f4c1ec41143423ac6ce3ce6dafdcec1)
Signed-off-by: Joe Smith <joe.smith@foo.org>
- If the patch requires any changes from the upstream version, tag the patch with
BACKPORT:instead ofUPSTREAM:.- use the same tags as
UPSTREAM: - add comments about the changes under the
(cherry picked from commit ...)line - Example:
- use the same tags as
BACKPORT: important patch from upstream
This is the detailed description of the important patch
Signed-off-by: Fred Jones <fred.jones@foo.org>
Bug: 135791357
Change-Id: I4caaaa566ea080fa148c5e768bb1a0b6f7201c01
(cherry picked from commit c31e73121f4c1ec41143423ac6ce3ce6dafdcec1)
[joe: Resolved minor conflict in drivers/foo/bar.c ]
Signed-off-by: Joe Smith <joe.smith@foo.org>
Requirements for other backports: FROMGIT:, FROMLIST:,
- If the patch has been merged into an upstream maintainer tree, but has not yet
been merged into Linux mainline
- tag the patch subject with
FROMGIT: - add info on where the patch came from as
(cherry picked from commit <sha1> <repo> <branch>). This must be a stable maintainer branch (not rebased, so don't uselinux-nextfor example). - if changes were required, use
BACKPORT: FROMGIT: - Example:
- if the commit message in the maintainer tree is
- tag the patch subject with
important patch from upstream
This is the detailed description of the important patch
Signed-off-by: Fred Jones <fred.jones@foo.org>
- then Joe Smith would upload the patch for the common kernel as
FROMGIT: important patch from upstream
This is the detailed description of the important patch
Signed-off-by: Fred Jones <fred.jones@foo.org>
Bug: 135791357
(cherry picked from commit 878a2fd9de10b03d11d2f622250285c7e63deace
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/foo/bar.git test-branch)
Change-Id: I4caaaa566ea080fa148c5e768bb1a0b6f7201c01
Signed-off-by: Joe Smith <joe.smith@foo.org>
- If the patch has been submitted to LKML, but not accepted into any maintainer tree
- tag the patch subject with
FROMLIST: - add a
Link:tag with a link to the submittal on lore.kernel.org - add a
Bug:tag with the Android bug (required for patches not accepted into a maintainer tree) - if changes were required, use
BACKPORT: FROMLIST: - Example:
- tag the patch subject with
FROMLIST: important patch from upstream
This is the detailed description of the important patch
Signed-off-by: Fred Jones <fred.jones@foo.org>
Bug: 135791357
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190619171517.GA17557@someone.com/
Change-Id: I4caaaa566ea080fa148c5e768bb1a0b6f7201c01
Signed-off-by: Joe Smith <joe.smith@foo.org>
Requirements for Android-specific patches: ANDROID:
- If the patch is fixing a bug to Android-specific code
- tag the patch subject with
ANDROID: - add a
Fixes:tag that cites the patch with the bug - Example:
- tag the patch subject with
ANDROID: fix android-specific bug in foobar.c
This is the detailed description of the important fix
Fixes: 1234abcd2468 ("foobar: add cool feature")
Change-Id: I4caaaa566ea080fa148c5e768bb1a0b6f7201c01
Signed-off-by: Joe Smith <joe.smith@foo.org>
- If the patch is a new feature
- tag the patch subject with
ANDROID: - add a
Bug:tag with the Android bug (required for android-specific features)
- tag the patch subject with