Documentation: trace: Add documentation for Coresight Dummy Trace
authorHao Zhang <quic_hazha@quicinc.com>
Fri, 2 Jun 2023 08:41:49 +0000 (16:41 +0800)
committerSuzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>
Thu, 15 Jun 2023 07:50:23 +0000 (08:50 +0100)
Add documentation for Coresight Dummy Trace under trace/coresight.

Reviewed-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Hao Zhang <quic_hazha@quicinc.com>
Signed-off-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230602084149.40031-4-quic_hazha@quicinc.com
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+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+
+=============================
+Coresight Dummy Trace Module
+=============================
+
+    :Author:   Hao Zhang <quic_hazha@quicinc.com>
+    :Date:     June 2023
+
+Introduction
+------------
+
+The 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. For these devices, a dummy driver is needed to register them as
+Coresight devices. The module may also be used to define components that may
+not have any programming interfaces, so that paths can be created in the driver.
+It provides Coresight API for operations on dummy devices, such as enabling and
+disabling them. It also provides the Coresight dummy sink/source paths for
+debugging.
+
+Config details
+--------------
+
+There are two types of nodes, dummy sink and dummy source. These nodes
+are available at ``/sys/bus/coresight/devices``.
+
+Example output::
+
+    $ ls -l /sys/bus/coresight/devices | grep dummy
+    dummy_sink0 -> ../../../devices/platform/soc@0/soc@0:sink/dummy_sink0
+    dummy_source0 -> ../../../devices/platform/soc@0/soc@0:source/dummy_source0