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From: Leo Yan <leo.yan@arm.com>
To: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Cc: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>,
	Mike Leach <mike.leach@linaro.org>,
	Jie Gan <jie.gan@oss.qualcomm.com>,
	Carl Worth <carl@os.amperecomputing.com>,
	Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>,
	Tingwei Zhang <tingwei.zhang@oss.qualcomm.com>,
	coresight@lists.linaro.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 1/3] coresight: tmc: add the handle of the event to the path
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2025 17:04:40 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250925160440.GD7985@e132581.arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <635ba698-d7a9-40d0-9285-4ec108d4a536@linaro.org>

On Thu, Sep 25, 2025 at 11:10:51AM +0100, James Clark wrote:

> > > I would suggest in the csdev (coresight_device) structure itself. We
> > > already have some sink specific data in here e.g. perf_sink_id_map.

[...]

> > I think this data is specific to the session we are enabling the
> > device(s) in. e.g., we keep the trace-id in the path.
> > So, I don't mind having this in the path structure.
> > Instead of modifying csdev with additional locking from "etm-perf"
> > it is always cleaner to handle this in the path.
> 
> Yeah, and perf_sink_id_map only "needs" to be in the csdev because it
> controls sharing IDs between multiple paths which can't be accomplished by
> storing it in the path.

This is a bit off-topic: do we really need to maintain an id_map in
every sink device, or could we simply use a global id_map?

I might miss some info; anyway, consolidating trace IDs is a low
priority for me and not critical to this thread. But this might be
benefit for later refactoring.

Thanks,
Leo


  parent reply	other threads:[~2025-09-25 16:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-09-22  7:31 [PATCH RFC 0/3] coresight: replace the void pointer with coresight_path pointer Jie Gan
2025-09-22  7:31 ` [PATCH RFC 1/3] coresight: tmc: add the handle of the event to the path Jie Gan
2025-09-22  8:29   ` Leo Yan
2025-09-22  9:19     ` Jie Gan
2025-09-22 17:31   ` Carl Worth
2025-09-23  1:49     ` Jie Gan
2025-09-24 10:21       ` Mike Leach
2025-09-24 16:42         ` Suzuki K Poulose
2025-09-25 10:10           ` James Clark
2025-09-25 16:01             ` Leo Yan
2025-09-25 16:04             ` Leo Yan [this message]
2025-09-26 10:05               ` Mike Leach
2025-09-24 16:28       ` Carl Worth
2025-09-22  7:31 ` [PATCH RFC 2/3] coresight: change helper_ops to accept coresight_path Jie Gan
2025-09-22  8:34   ` Leo Yan
2025-09-22 17:33   ` Carl Worth
2025-09-22  7:31 ` [PATCH RFC 3/3] coresight: change the sink_ops " Jie Gan
2025-09-22  8:46   ` Leo Yan
2025-09-22 17:34   ` Carl Worth
2025-09-22 17:26 ` [PATCH RFC 0/3] coresight: replace the void pointer with coresight_path pointer Carl Worth

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