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diff --git a/Documentation/trace/stm.txt b/Documentation/trace/stm.txt index ea035f9dbfd7..11cff47eecce 100644 --- a/Documentation/trace/stm.txt +++ b/Documentation/trace/stm.txt @@ -69,12 +69,43 @@ stm device's channel mmio region is 64 bytes and hardware page size is 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. +Examples of STM devices are Intel(R) Trace Hub [1] and Coresight STM +[2]. + +stm_source +========== + 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. +stm devices at runtime via a sysfs attribute called "stm_source_link" +by writing the name of the desired stm device there, for example: -Examples of STM devices are Intel(R) Trace Hub [1] and Coresight STM -[2]. +$ echo dummy_stm.0 > /sys/class/stm_source/console/stm_source_link + +For examples on how to use stm_source interface in the kernel, refer +to stm_console or stm_heartbeat drivers. + +Each stm_source device will need to assume a master and a range of +channels, depending on how many channels it requires. These are +allocated for the device according to the policy configuration. If +there's a node in the root of the policy directory that matches the +stm_source device's name (for example, "console"), this node will be +used to allocate master and channel numbers. If there's no such policy +node, the stm core will pick the first contiguous chunk of channels +within the first available master. Note that the node must exist +before the stm_source device is connected to its stm device. + +stm_console +=========== + +One implementation of this interface also used in the example above is +the "stm_console" driver, which basically provides a one-way console +for kernel messages over an stm device. + +To configure the master/channel pair that will be assigned to this +console in the STP stream, create a "console" policy entry (see the +beginning of this text on how to do that). When initialized, it will +consume one channel. [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 |