Good day all,

New bundles can be found here [1]. It is the same 'uname' command but generated with the only two options currently supported: timestamp and cycle accurate. We can add more at will but let's start with that. On V3 the options are pushed to the hardware and as such the trace format should change accordingly. On ETMv4 the perf framework does convey the options but they are not configured in the tracers. Even if the options are set the traces won't reflect it - this is obviously only temporary and will be fixed after I release the 3rd version of the patchset.

I have verified the validity of the headers (both for V3 and V4) along with the information they conveys. The layouts haven't changed from what I previously had [2] - the only difference is that config registers are artificially generated from options provided on the cmd line.

On the topic of configuration registers, at this time TRACEIDR on V3 and TRCCONFIGR on V4 __have the same layout__, i.e bit 12 for cycle accurate and bit 28 for timestamp. I simply did not see the need to select a different bit field layout for V4 since Tor's code will ultimately parse that before feeding it to the decode library. A different layout for V4 would mean more code for Tor - get back to me if you think enacting the V4 TRCCONFIGR layout is important.

Keep in mind that nothing of this is set in stone, if you think we can do better please speak up. Mike and Al, this doesn't support ETMv4.1.

Let's discuss this further at the meeting on Wednesday. For now (and for a little while) I need to concentrate on getting the 3rd iteration of the patchset out.

Regards, Mathieu

[1]. http://people.linaro.org/~mathieu.poirier/openCSD/ [2]. https://git.linaro.org/people/mathieu.poirier/coresight.git/blob/refs/heads/...