This patch set is to explore Coresight tracing data for postmortem debugging. When kernel panic happens, the Coresight panic kdump can help to save on-chip tracing data and tracer metadata into DRAM, later relies on kdump and crash/perf tools to recovery tracing data for "offline" analysis.
The documentation is important to understand the purpose of Coresight panic kdump, the implementation of framework and usage. Patches 0001 and patch 0002 are used for creating new sub directory for placing Coresight docs and add a new doc for Coresight panic kdump.
Patch 0003 introduces the simple panic kdump framework which provides helper functions can be used by Coresight devices, and it registers panic notifier for dump tracing data.
Patches 0004/0005 support panic kdump for ETB; Patch 0006 supports the kdump for ETMv4.
This patch set has been reworked by following suggestions at Linaro HKG18 connect (mainly suggestions from Mathieu, thanks a lot!), and it's rebased on acme git tree [1] with last commit 109d59b900e7 ('perf vendor events s390: Add JSON files for IBM z14').
Due Coresight kdump data structure has been changed significantly, the corresponding crash extension program also has been updated for this reason [2]; furthermore the crash extension program is updated to dynamically generate kernel buildid according to vmlinux elf info [3], this is a fixing for the old code which uses hard-coded buildid value.
This patch set has been verified on 96boards Hikey620 with Coresight enabling by the sysFS interface. Also the updated crash extension program has been verified to cowork with Coresight panic kdump and it successfully extracts tracing data from the vmcore and finally can be decoded by perf tool.
[1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux.git [2] https://git.linaro.org/people/leo.yan/crash.git/tree/extensions/csdump.c [3] https://git.linaro.org/people/leo.yan/crash.git/tree/extensions/csdump_build...
Changes from v3: * Following Mathieu suggestion, reworked the panic kdump framework, used kdump array to maintain source and sink device handlers; * According to Mathieu suggestion, optimized panic notifier to firstly dump panic CPU tracing data and then dump other CPUs tracing data; * Refined doc to reflect these implementation changes; * Changed ETMv4 driver to add source device handler at probe phase; * Refactored crash extension program to reflect kernel changes.
Changes from v2: * Add the two patches for documentation. * Following Mathieu suggestion, reworked the panic kdump framework, removed the useless flag "PRE_PANIC". * According to comment, changed to add and delete kdump node operations in sink enable/disable functions; * According to Mathieu suggestion, handle kdump node addition/deletion/updating separately for sysFS interface and perf method.
Changes from v1: * Add support to dump ETMv4 meta data. * Wrote 'crash' extension csdump.so so rely on it to generate 'perf' format compatible file. * Refactored panic dump driver to support pre & post panic dump.
Changes from RFC: * Follow Mathieu's suggestion, use general framework to support dump functionality. * Changed to use perf to analyse trace data.
Leo Yan (6): doc: Add Coresight documentation directory doc: Add documentation for Coresight panic kdump coresight: Support panic kdump functionality coresight: tmc: Hook callback for panic kdump coresight: Set and clear sink device handler for kdump node coresight: etm4x: Support panic kdump
Documentation/trace/coresight-cpu-debug.txt | 187 ---------- Documentation/trace/coresight.txt | 383 --------------------- .../trace/coresight/coresight-cpu-debug.txt | 187 ++++++++++ .../trace/coresight/coresight-panic-kdump.txt | 130 +++++++ Documentation/trace/coresight/coresight.txt | 383 +++++++++++++++++++++ MAINTAINERS | 5 +- drivers/hwtracing/coresight/Kconfig | 9 + drivers/hwtracing/coresight/Makefile | 1 + drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm-perf.c | 5 + drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm4x.c | 27 ++ drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm4x.h | 15 + .../hwtracing/coresight/coresight-panic-kdump.c | 199 +++++++++++ drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-priv.h | 12 + drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-tmc-etf.c | 30 ++ drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight.c | 16 +- include/linux/coresight.h | 4 + 16 files changed, 1019 insertions(+), 574 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 Documentation/trace/coresight-cpu-debug.txt delete mode 100644 Documentation/trace/coresight.txt create mode 100644 Documentation/trace/coresight/coresight-cpu-debug.txt create mode 100644 Documentation/trace/coresight/coresight-panic-kdump.txt create mode 100644 Documentation/trace/coresight/coresight.txt create mode 100644 drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-panic-kdump.c