coresight: docs: Remove target sink from examples

Previously the sink had to be specified, but now it auto selects one by
default. Including a sink in the examples causes issues when copy
pasting the command because it might not work if that sink isn't
present. Remove the sink from all the basic examples and create a new
section specifically about overriding the default one.

Make the text a but more concise now that it's in the advanced section,
and similarly for removing the old kernel advice.

Signed-off-by: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241210144933.295798-1-james.clark@linaro.org

diff --git a/Documentation/trace/coresight/coresight.rst b/Documentation/trace/coresight/coresight.rst
index d4f93d6a2d6335f01e9b65aa8401e0ef9951b59c..806699871b80839bd0e15456e1937189c19a88ab 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/trace/coresight/coresight.rst
+++ b/Documentation/trace/coresight/coresight.rst
@@ -462,44 +462,35 @@ queried by the perf command line tool:
 
                cs_etm//                                    [Kernel PMU event]
 
-       linaro@linaro-nano:~$
-
 Regardless of the number of tracers available in a system (usually equal to the
 amount of processor cores), the "cs_etm" PMU will be listed only once.
 
 A Coresight PMU works the same way as any other PMU, i.e the name of the PMU is
-listed along with configuration options within forward slashes '/'.  Since a
-Coresight system will typically have more than one sink, the name of the sink to
-work with needs to be specified as an event option.
-On newer kernels the available sinks are listed in sysFS under
+provided along with configuration options within forward slashes '/' (see
+`Config option formats`_).
+
+Advanced Perf framework usage
+-----------------------------
+
+Sink selection
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+An appropriate sink will be selected automatically for use with Perf, but since
+there will typically be more than one sink, the name of the sink to use may be
+specified as a special config option prefixed with '@'.
+
+The available sinks are listed in sysFS under
 ($SYSFS)/bus/event_source/devices/cs_etm/sinks/::
 
        root@localhost:/sys/bus/event_source/devices/cs_etm/sinks# ls
        tmc_etf0  tmc_etr0  tpiu0
 
-On older kernels, this may need to be found from the list of coresight devices,
-available under ($SYSFS)/bus/coresight/devices/::
-
-       root:~# ls /sys/bus/coresight/devices/
-        etm0     etm1     etm2         etm3  etm4      etm5      funnel0
-        funnel1  funnel2  replicator0  stm0  tmc_etf0  tmc_etr0  tpiu0
        root@linaro-nano:~# perf record -e cs_etm/@tmc_etr0/u --per-thread program
 
-As mentioned above in section "Device Naming scheme", the names of the devices could
-look different from what is used in the example above. One must use the device names
-as it appears under the sysFS.
-
-The syntax within the forward slashes '/' is important.  The '@' character
-tells the parser that a sink is about to be specified and that this is the sink
-to use for the trace session.
-
 More information on the above and other example on how to use Coresight with
 the perf tools can be found in the "HOWTO.md" file of the openCSD gitHub
 repository [#third]_.
 
-Advanced perf framework usage
------------------------------
-
 AutoFDO analysis using the perf tools
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
@@ -508,7 +499,7 @@ perf can be used to record and analyze trace of programs.
 Execution can be recorded using 'perf record' with the cs_etm event,
 specifying the name of the sink to record to, e.g::
 
-    perf record -e cs_etm/@tmc_etr0/u --per-thread
+    perf record -e cs_etm//u --per-thread
 
 The 'perf report' and 'perf script' commands can be used to analyze execution,
 synthesizing instruction and branch events from the instruction trace.
@@ -572,7 +563,7 @@ sort example is from the AutoFDO tutorial (https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/AutoFDO/Tuto
        Bubble sorting array of 30000 elements
        5910 ms
 
-       $ perf record -e cs_etm/@tmc_etr0/u --per-thread taskset -c 2 ./sort
+       $ perf record -e cs_etm//u --per-thread taskset -c 2 ./sort
        Bubble sorting array of 30000 elements
        12543 ms
        [ perf record: Woken up 35 times to write data ]

diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/perf_ring_buffer.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/perf_ring_buffer.rst
index bde9d8cbc1062799699bd986538a70eb553b3fe8..dc71544532cee864431c495d7041c2712d5c6b37 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/userspace-api/perf_ring_buffer.rst
+++ b/Documentation/userspace-api/perf_ring_buffer.rst
@@ -627,7 +627,7 @@ regular ring buffer.
 AUX events and AUX trace data are two different things.  Let's see an
 example::
 
-        perf record -a -e cycles -e cs_etm/@tmc_etr0/ -- sleep 2
+        perf record -a -e cycles -e cs_etm// -- sleep 2
 
 The above command enables two events: one is the event *cycles* from PMU
 and another is the AUX event *cs_etm* from Arm CoreSight, both are saved
@@ -766,7 +766,7 @@ only record AUX trace data at a specific time point which users are
 interested in.  E.g. below gives an example of how to take snapshots
 with 1 second interval with Arm CoreSight::
 
-  perf record -e cs_etm/@tmc_etr0/u -S -a program &
+  perf record -e cs_etm//u -S -a program &
   PERFPID=$!
   while true; do
       kill -USR2 $PERFPID