[PATCH v4 3/3] Documentation: trace: Add documentation for Coresight Dummy Trace

Hao Zhang quic_hazha at quicinc.com
Fri May 5 02:24:22 PDT 2023


Add documentation for Coresight Dummy Trace under trace/coresight.

Signed-off-by: Hao Zhang <quic_hazha at quicinc.com>
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+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+
+=============================
+Coresight Dummy Trace Module
+=============================
+
+    :Author:   Hao Zhang <quic_hazha at quicinc.com>
+    :Date:     May 2023
+
+Introduction
+---------------------------
+
+Coresight Dummy Trace Module is for the specific devices that kernel
+don't have permission to access or configure, e.g., CoreSight TPDMs
+on Qualcomm platforms. So there need driver to register dummy devices
+as Coresight devices. It may also be used to define components that
+may not have any programming interfaces (e.g, static links), so that
+paths can be established in the driver. Provide Coresight API for
+dummy device operations, such as enabling and disabling dummy devices.
+Build the Coresight path for dummy sink or dummy source for debugging.
+
+Config details
+---------------------------
+
+There are two types of nodes, dummy sink and dummy source. The nodes
+should be observed at the below coresight path::
+
+    ``/sys/bus/coresight/devices``.
+
+e.g.::
+
+    / $ ls -l /sys/bus/coresight/devices | grep dummy
+    dummy_sink0 -> ../../../devices/platform/soc at 0/soc at 0:sink/dummy_sink0
+    dummy_source0 -> ../../../devices/platform/soc at 0/soc at 0:source/dummy_source0
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