Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 29 Jun 2022 19:19:32 +0100 | From | Cristian Marussi <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/2] Add SCMI full message tracing |
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On Mon, Jun 27, 2022 at 03:05:57PM -0400, Jim Quinlan wrote: > On Thu, Jun 23, 2022 at 10:55 AM Cristian Marussi > <cristian.marussi@arm.com> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > after a few recent troubles handling too strictly out-of-spec replies from > > SCMI servers deployed in the wild, I though it could have been useful to > > have a basic way to dump at will the effective full payloads of successfuly > > transmitted/received SCMI messages. > > > > The existing SCMI traces already collect a bunch of information about SCMI > > message exchanges but they do NOT keep any payload information: this is > > certainly preferable most of the time since dumping full SCMI messages to > > the trace buffer involves a full copy of the payload. > > > > For this reason I added a new distinct trace_scmi_msg_dump with this series > > in order to be able to selectively enable at will message dumping only when > > required. > > > > Only successfully transmitted and received (valid) xfers are dumped. > > > > At first I was thinking about just dumping raw header and payload, but in > > order to make the log a bit more human readable (without the need of > > tooling to parse the log), I added some parsing/interpretation of the > > header, so that the final result is something like: > > > > root@deb-guest:~# echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/scmi/scmi_msg_dump/enable > > root@deb-guest:~# cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_pipe > > > > (my annotations non on traces =>>) proto type cmd seq status payload > > | | | | | | > > ++ cmd/reply | | | | | | > > cat-224 [002] ..... 147.755847: scmi_msg_dump: [0x15]:CMND:[0x06]:[0021]:[0]: 0000000000000000 > > <idle>-0 [000] d.h2. 147.758311: scmi_msg_dump: [0x15]:RESP:[0x06]:[0021]:[0]: 25000000000000000000000000000000 > >I'll probably still use a script, but > as you are keep > > > > ++ cmd/reply/delayed > > cat-223 [001] ..... 122.384192: scmi_msg_dump: [0x15]:CMND:[0x06]:[0020]:[0]: 0100000001000000 > > <idle>-0 [000] d.h2. 122.405548: scmi_msg_dump: [0x15]:RESP:[0x06]:[0020]:[0]: > > <idle>-0 [000] d.h2. 122.425839: scmi_msg_dump: [0x15]:DLYD:[0x06]:[0020]:[0]: 01000000a05a320000000000efbeaddefecafeca > > > > > > ++ enable notif/notif > > iio_generic_buf-233 [003] ..... 522.399690: scmi_msg_dump: [0x15]:CMND:[0x0A]:[0024]:[0]: 0800000003000000 > > <idle>-0 [000] dNh2. 522.417778: scmi_msg_dump: [0x15]:RESP:[0x0A]:[0024]:[0]: 00000000 > > <idle>-0 [000] d.h2. 522.500945: scmi_msg_dump: [0x15]:NOTI:[0x01]:[0000]:[0]: 000000000800000008daffffffffffff0040d3a45d46fb1610daffffffffffff0040d3a45d46fb1618daffffffffffff0040d3a45d46fb16 > > > > Payload is dumped as it comes through byte-by-byte without any endianity > > conversion to avoid further load on the system. > > > > Any thoughs ? > > Hi Christian, > I haven't tested this but the format looks good to me. I have a > couple of minor suggestions > below. >
Hi Jim,
thanks for having a look.
> As all numbers are hex, consider dropping the '0x'. BTW, the seq > value (eg [0020]) is hex but does not have '0x'. >
Yes indeed, good point.
> Some TP_printk()s use this style: > > scmi_msg_dump: pt=15 t=CMND cmd=06 seq=0021 s=0 pyld=12345678abcdef > > which allows one to easily grep, for example, for all non-zero returns > > grep 's=[^0]' > > This format is also easy to parse with a script: strip the preamble, > split on whitespace, and then split on '=' to get the [key, value] > pairs.
In fact having a grep-friendly format is better.
Thanks for your feedback, I'll wait to see if someone else wants to chime in and repost.
Thanks, Cristian
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