On 14/11/12 15:13, Arun KS wrote:
Hello Punit,
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 8:28 PM, Punit Agrawal <punit.agra...@arm.com> wrote:
Hi Arun,
You can think of the trace in the ETB as the raw stream resulting from
the multiplexing of different trace streams. So to get to the PTM trace
you'll first have to de-multiplex the stream, and then decode the stream
based on the source - in this case PTM.
The format of the data stored in the ETB is described in the ETM TRM
Section 9.6
(http://infocenter.arm.com/help/index.jsp?topic=/com.arm.doc.ddi0314h/Bgbhhidd.html).
The decoding should give you a trace stream for each active trace
source. The ATBID can be used to de-multiplex multiple sources, e.g.,
the two PTMs associated with the two A9s.
After sending the previous email, I had a quick look at etm.c and
noticed that it configures the ETB formatter to run in "Bypass" mode,
i.e., it doesn't introduce any formatting into the trace stream.
The PTM stream can then be decoded using the Program Flow Trace Protocol
described in Program Flow Trace Architecture Specification Section 4
(http://infocenter.arm.com/help/index.jsp?topic=/com.arm.doc.ihi0035b/Chddbbdf.html).
So do you mean that there is no open source tool which decodes this as
of now and I have to write one?
I don't know of any open source tool to decode PTM trace.
But in light of the above finding, decoding only PTM trace should give
you the information you are after.
Hope that makes it a little bit easier.
Punit
Out of curiosity, may I ask what are you trying to do?
The main intention is to debug freeze issues using PTM traces.
When a device is in freeze, my intention is to collect PTM traces
from ETB and decode.
So that I ll get traces of last few branches and exceptions.
Thanks,
Arun
Hope this helps. Feel free to ask for clarification.
Cheers,
Punit
On 14/11/12 14:04, Arun KS wrote:
Hello,
I m trying to capture and decode PTM trace from Cortex A9 dual core.
I m successful in configuring the driver(arch/arm/kernel/etm.c) and
setting the funnel to get data in ETB.
But I don't know how to decode these traces.
Anyone has any pointers?
Thanks,
Arun
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