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diff --git a/Documentation/trace/stm.txt b/Documentation/trace/stm.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..ea035f9dbfd7 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/trace/stm.txt @@ -0,0 +1,80 @@ +System Trace Module +=================== + +System Trace Module (STM) is a device described in MIPI STP specs as +STP trace stream generator. STP (System Trace Protocol) is a trace +protocol multiplexing data from multiple trace sources, each one of +which is assigned a unique pair of master and channel. While some of +these masters and channels are statically allocated to certain +hardware trace sources, others are available to software. Software +trace sources are usually free to pick for themselves any +master/channel combination from this pool. + +On the receiving end of this STP stream (the decoder side), trace +sources can only be identified by master/channel combination, so in +order for the decoder to be able to make sense of the trace that +involves multiple trace sources, it needs to be able to map those +master/channel pairs to the trace sources that it understands. + +For instance, it is helpful to know that syslog messages come on +master 7 channel 15, while arbitrary user applications can use masters +48 to 63 and channels 0 to 127. + +To solve this mapping problem, stm class provides a policy management +mechanism via configfs, that allows defining rules that map string +identifiers to ranges of masters and channels. If these rules (policy) +are consistent with what decoder expects, it will be able to properly +process the trace data. + +This policy is a tree structure containing rules (policy_node) that +have a name (string identifier) and a range of masters and channels +associated with it, located in "stp-policy" subsystem directory in +configfs. The topmost directory's name (the policy) is formatted as +the STM device name to which this policy applies and and arbitrary +string identifier separated by a stop. From the examle above, a rule +may look like this: + +$ ls /config/stp-policy/dummy_stm.my-policy/user +channels masters +$ cat /config/stp-policy/dummy_stm.my-policy/user/masters +48 63 +$ cat /config/stp-policy/dummy_stm.my-policy/user/channels +0 127 + +which means that the master allocation pool for this rule consists of +masters 48 through 63 and channel allocation pool has channels 0 +through 127 in it. Now, any producer (trace source) identifying itself +with "user" identification string will be allocated a master and +channel from within these ranges. + +These rules can be nested, for example, one can define a rule "dummy" +under "user" directory from the example above and this new rule will +be used for trace sources with the id string of "user/dummy". + +Trace sources have to open the stm class device's node and write their +trace data into its file descriptor. In order to identify themselves +to the policy, they need to do a STP_POLICY_ID_SET ioctl on this file +descriptor providing their id string. Otherwise, they will be +automatically allocated a master/channel pair upon first write to this +file descriptor according to the "default" rule of the policy, if such +exists. + +Some STM devices may allow direct mapping of the channel mmio regions +to userspace for zero-copy writing. One mappable page (in terms of +mmu) will usually contain multiple channels' mmios, so the user will +need to allocate that many channels to themselves (via the +aforementioned ioctl() call) to be able to do this. That is, if your +stm device's channel mmio region is 64 bytes and hardware page size is +4096 bytes, after a successful STP_POLICY_ID_SET ioctl() call with +width==64, you should be able to mmap() one page on this file +descriptor and obtain direct access to an mmio region for 64 channels. + +For kernel-based trace sources, there is "stm_source" device +class. Devices of this class can be connected and disconnected to/from +stm devices at runtime via a sysfs attribute. + +Examples of STM devices are Intel(R) Trace Hub [1] and Coresight STM +[2]. + +[1] https://software.intel.com/sites/default/files/managed/d3/3c/intel-th-developer-manual.pdf +[2] http://infocenter.arm.com/help/index.jsp?topic=/com.arm.doc.ddi0444b/index.html |