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