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When a sink is not specified by the user, the etm perf driver finds a suitable sink automatically, based on the first ETM where this event could be scheduled. Then we allocate the sink buffer based on the selected sink. This is fine for a CPU bound event as the "sink" is always guaranteed to be reachable from the ETM (as this is the only ETM where the event is going to be scheduled). However, if we have a thread bound event, the event could be scheduled on any of the ETMs on the system. In this case, currently we automatically select a sink and exclude any ETMs that cannot reach the selected sink. This is problematic especially for 1x1 configurations. We end up in tracing the event only on the "first" ETM, as the default sink is local to the first ETM and unreachable from the rest. However, we could allow the other ETMs to trace if they all have a sink that is compatible with the "selected" sink and can use the sink buffer. This can be easily done by verifying that they are all driven by the same driver and matches the same subtype. Please note that at anytime there can be only one ETM tracing the event. Adding support for different types of sinks for a single event is complex and is not something that we expect on a sane configuration. Cc: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Mike Leach <mike.leach@linaro.org> Tested-by: Linu Cherian <lcherian@marvell.com> Signed-off-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210405164307.1720226-10-suzuki.poulose@arm.com Signed-off-by: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org> |
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Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.