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From: Suzuki K Poulose <Suzuki.Poulose@arm.com>
To: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mike.leach@linaro.org,
	robert.walker@arm.com, mark.rutland@arm.com, will.deacon@arm.com,
	robin.murphy@arm.com, sudeep.holla@arm.com,
	frowand.list@gmail.com, robh@kernel.org, john.horley@arm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 12/27] coresight: tmc-etr: Allow commandline option to override SG use
Date: Tue, 8 May 2018 16:49:56 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3610e97f-87aa-3bfe-c89d-161a6bd09047@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180503204035.GA15555@xps15>

On 03/05/18 21:40, Mathieu Poirier wrote:
> On Tue, May 01, 2018 at 10:10:42AM +0100, Suzuki K Poulose wrote:
>> The Coresight TMC-ETR SG mode could be unsafe on a platform where
>> the ETR is not properly connected to account for READ operations.
>> We use a DT node property to indicate if the system is safe.
>> This patch also provides a command line parameter to "force"
>> the use of SG mode to override the firmware information.
>>
>> Cc: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org>
>> Cc: Mike Leach <mike.leach@linaro.org>
>> Signed-off-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>
>> ---
>> Hi
>>
>> This is more of a debug patch for people who may want to
>> test their platform without too much of hacking. I am not
>> too keen on pushing this patch in.
> 
> I am not either nor do I personally need it to test this feature.  We can leave
> it in for now (and subsequent version) if you need it but we agree that I won't
> queue it to my tree when the time comes.

OK, I was expecting this view from most of us here. I will drop it from my series in
the next version.

Cheers
Suzuki

  reply	other threads:[~2018-05-08 15:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 67+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-05-01  9:10 [PATCH v2 00/27] coresight: TMC ETR backend support for perf Suzuki K Poulose
2018-05-01  9:10 ` [PATCH v2 01/27] coresight: ETM: Add support for ARM Cortex-A73 Suzuki K Poulose
2018-05-01  9:10 ` [PATCH v2 02/27] coresight: Cleanup device subtype struct Suzuki K Poulose
2018-05-01  9:10 ` [PATCH v2 03/27] coresight: Add helper device type Suzuki K Poulose
2018-05-03 17:00   ` Mathieu Poirier
2018-05-05  9:56     ` Suzuki K Poulose
2018-05-01  9:10 ` [PATCH v2 04/27] coresight: Introduce support for Coresight Addrss Translation Unit Suzuki K Poulose
2018-05-03 17:31   ` Mathieu Poirier
2018-05-03 20:25     ` Mathieu Poirier
2018-05-05 10:03       ` Suzuki K Poulose
2018-05-01  9:10 ` [PATCH v2 05/27] dts: bindings: Document device tree binding for CATU Suzuki K Poulose
2018-05-01 13:10   ` Rob Herring
2018-05-03 17:42     ` Mathieu Poirier
2018-05-08 15:40       ` Suzuki K Poulose
2018-05-11 16:05         ` Rob Herring
2018-05-14 14:42           ` Mathieu Poirier
2018-05-01  9:10 ` [PATCH v2 06/27] coresight: tmc etr: Disallow perf mode temporarily Suzuki K Poulose
2018-05-01  9:10 ` [PATCH v2 07/27] coresight: tmc: Hide trace buffer handling for file read Suzuki K Poulose
2018-05-03 19:50   ` Mathieu Poirier
2018-05-01  9:10 ` [PATCH v2 08/27] coresight: tmc-etr: Do not clean trace buffer Suzuki K Poulose
2018-05-01  9:10 ` [PATCH v2 09/27] coresight: Add helper for inserting synchronization packets Suzuki K Poulose
2018-05-01  9:10 ` [PATCH v2 10/27] dts: bindings: Restrict coresight tmc-etr scatter-gather mode Suzuki K Poulose
2018-05-01 13:13   ` Rob Herring
2018-05-03 20:32     ` Mathieu Poirier
2018-05-04 22:56       ` Rob Herring
2018-05-08 15:48         ` Suzuki K Poulose
2018-05-08 17:34           ` Rob Herring
2018-05-01  9:10 ` [PATCH v2 11/27] dts: juno: Add scatter-gather support for all revisions Suzuki K Poulose
2018-05-01  9:10 ` [PATCH v2 12/27] coresight: tmc-etr: Allow commandline option to override SG use Suzuki K Poulose
2018-05-03 20:40   ` Mathieu Poirier
2018-05-08 15:49     ` Suzuki K Poulose [this message]
2018-05-01  9:10 ` [PATCH v2 13/27] coresight: Add generic TMC sg table framework Suzuki K Poulose
2018-05-04 17:35   ` Mathieu Poirier
2018-05-01  9:10 ` [PATCH v2 14/27] coresight: Add support for TMC ETR SG unit Suzuki K Poulose
2018-05-01  9:10 ` [PATCH v2 15/27] coresight: tmc-etr: Make SG table circular Suzuki K Poulose
2018-05-01  9:10 ` [PATCH v2 16/27] coresight: tmc-etr: Add transparent buffer management Suzuki K Poulose
2018-05-07 17:20   ` Mathieu Poirier
2018-05-01  9:10 ` [PATCH v2 17/27] coresight: etr: Add support for save restore buffers Suzuki K Poulose
2018-05-07 17:48   ` Mathieu Poirier
2018-05-01  9:10 ` [PATCH v2 18/27] coresight: catu: Add support for scatter gather tables Suzuki K Poulose
2018-05-07 20:25   ` Mathieu Poirier
2018-05-08 15:56     ` Suzuki K Poulose
2018-05-08 16:13       ` Mathieu Poirier
2018-05-01  9:10 ` [PATCH v2 19/27] coresight: catu: Plug in CATU as a backend for ETR buffer Suzuki K Poulose
2018-05-07 22:02   ` Mathieu Poirier
2018-05-08 16:21     ` Suzuki K Poulose
2018-05-01  9:10 ` [PATCH v2 20/27] coresight: tmc: Add configuration support for trace buffer size Suzuki K Poulose
2018-05-01  9:10 ` [PATCH v2 21/27] coresight: Convert driver messages to dev_dbg Suzuki K Poulose
2018-05-02  3:55   ` Kim Phillips
2018-05-02  8:25     ` Robert Walker
2018-05-02 13:52     ` Robin Murphy
2018-05-10 13:36       ` Suzuki K Poulose
2018-05-07 22:28   ` Mathieu Poirier
2018-05-01  9:10 ` [PATCH v2 22/27] coresight: tmc-etr: Track if the device is coherent Suzuki K Poulose
2018-05-01  9:10 ` [PATCH v2 23/27] coresight: tmc-etr: Handle driver mode specific ETR buffers Suzuki K Poulose
2018-05-08 17:18   ` Mathieu Poirier
2018-05-08 21:51     ` Suzuki K Poulose
2018-05-09 17:12       ` Mathieu Poirier
2018-05-01  9:10 ` [PATCH v2 24/27] coresight: tmc-etr: Relax collection of trace from sysfs mode Suzuki K Poulose
2018-05-07 22:54   ` Mathieu Poirier
2018-05-01  9:10 ` [PATCH v2 25/27] coresight: etr_buf: Add helper for padding an area of trace data Suzuki K Poulose
2018-05-08 17:34   ` Mathieu Poirier
2018-05-01  9:10 ` [PATCH v2 26/27] coresight: perf: Remove reset_buffer call back for sinks Suzuki K Poulose
2018-05-08 19:42   ` Mathieu Poirier
2018-05-11 16:35     ` Suzuki K Poulose
2018-05-01  9:10 ` [PATCH v2 27/27] coresight: etm-perf: Add support for ETR backend Suzuki K Poulose
2018-05-08 22:04   ` Mathieu Poirier

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