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4MIPI SyS-T over STP
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7The MIPI SyS-T protocol driver can be used with STM class devices to
8generate standardized trace stream. Aside from being a standard, it
9provides better trace source identification and timestamp correlation.
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11In order to use the MIPI SyS-T protocol driver with your STM device,
12first, you'll need CONFIG_STM_PROTO_SYS_T.
13
14Now, you can select which protocol driver you want to use when you create
15a policy for your STM device, by specifying it in the policy name:
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17# mkdir /config/stp-policy/dummy_stm.0:p_sys-t.my-policy/
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19In other words, the policy name format is extended like this:
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21  <device_name>:<protocol_name>.<policy_name>
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23With Intel TH, therefore it can look like "0-sth:p_sys-t.my-policy".
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25If the protocol name is omitted, the STM class will chose whichever
26protocol driver was loaded first.
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28You can also double check that everything is working as expected by
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30# cat /config/stp-policy/dummy_stm.0:p_sys-t.my-policy/protocol
31p_sys-t
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33Now, with the MIPI SyS-T protocol driver, each policy node in the
34configfs gets a few additional attributes, which determine per-source
35parameters specific to the protocol:
36
37# mkdir /config/stp-policy/dummy_stm.0:p_sys-t.my-policy/default
38# ls /config/stp-policy/dummy_stm.0:p_sys-t.my-policy/default
39channels
40clocksync_interval
41do_len
42masters
43ts_interval
44uuid
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46The most important one here is the "uuid", which determines the UUID
47that will be used to tag all data coming from this source. It is
48automatically generated when a new node is created, but it is likely
49that you would want to change it.
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51do_len switches on/off the additional "payload length" field in the
52MIPI SyS-T message header. It is off by default as the STP already
53marks message boundaries.
54
55ts_interval and clocksync_interval determine how much time in milliseconds
56can pass before we need to include a protocol (not transport, aka STP)
57timestamp in a message header or send a CLOCKSYNC packet, respectively.
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59See Documentation/ABI/testing/configfs-stp-policy-p_sys-t for more
60details.
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62* [1] https://www.mipi.org/specifications/sys-t
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