1 .. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
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4 CoreSight Embedded Cross Trigger (CTI & CTM).
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7 :Author: Mike Leach <mike.leach@linaro.org>
13 The CoreSight Cross Trigger Interface (CTI) is a hardware device that takes
14 individual input and output hardware signals known as triggers to and from
15 devices and interconnects them via the Cross Trigger Matrix (CTM) to other
16 devices via numbered channels, in order to propagate events between devices.
20 0000000 in_trigs :::::::
21 0 C 0----------->: : +======>(other CTI channel IO)
22 0 P 0<-----------: : v
23 0 U 0 out_trigs : : Channels ***** :::::::
24 0000000 : CTI :<=========>*CTM*<====>: CTI :---+
25 ####### in_trigs : : (id 0-3) ***** ::::::: v
26 # ETM #----------->: : ^ #######
27 # #<-----------: : +---# ETR #
28 ####### out_trigs ::::::: #######
30 The CTI driver enables the programming of the CTI to attach triggers to
31 channels. When an input trigger becomes active, the attached channel will
32 become active. Any output trigger attached to that channel will also
33 become active. The active channel is propagated to other CTIs via the CTM,
34 activating connected output triggers there, unless filtered by the CTI
37 It is also possible to activate a channel using system software directly
38 programming registers in the CTI.
40 The CTIs are registered by the system to be associated with CPUs and/or other
41 CoreSight devices on the trace data path. When these devices are enabled the
42 attached CTIs will also be enabled. By default/on power up the CTIs have
43 no programmed trigger/channel attachments, so will not affect the system
44 until explicitly programmed.
46 The hardware trigger connections between CTIs and devices is implementation
47 defined, unless the CPU/ETM combination is a v8 architecture, in which case
48 the connections have an architecturally defined standard layout.
50 The hardware trigger signals can also be connected to non-CoreSight devices
51 (e.g. UART), or be propagated off chip as hardware IO lines.
53 All the CTI devices are associated with a CTM. On many systems there will be a
54 single effective CTM (one CTM, or multiple CTMs all interconnected), but it is
55 possible that systems can have nets of CTIs+CTM that are not interconnected by
56 a CTM to each other. On these systems a CTM index is declared to associate
57 CTI devices that are interconnected via a given CTM.
59 Sysfs files and directories
60 ---------------------------
62 The CTI devices appear on the existing CoreSight bus alongside the other
65 >$ ls /sys/bus/coresight/devices
66 cti_cpu0 cti_cpu2 cti_sys0 etm0 etm2 funnel0 replicator0 tmc_etr0
67 cti_cpu1 cti_cpu3 cti_sys1 etm1 etm3 funnel1 tmc_etf0 tpiu0
69 The ``cti_cpu<N>`` named CTIs are associated with a CPU, and any ETM used by
70 that core. The ``cti_sys<N>`` CTIs are general system infrastructure CTIs that
71 can be associated with other CoreSight devices, or other system hardware
72 capable of generating or using trigger signals.::
74 >$ ls /sys/bus/coresight/devices/etm0/cti_cpu0
75 channels ctmid enable nr_trigger_cons mgmt power powered regs
76 connections subsystem triggers0 triggers1 uevent
78 *Key file items are:-*
79 * ``enable``: enables/disables the CTI. Read to determine current state.
80 If this shows as enabled (1), but ``powered`` shows unpowered (0), then
81 the enable indicates a request to enabled when the device is powered.
82 * ``ctmid`` : associated CTM - only relevant if system has multiple CTI+CTM
83 clusters that are not interconnected.
84 * ``nr_trigger_cons`` : total connections - triggers<N> directories.
85 * ``powered`` : Read to determine if the CTI is currently powered.
88 * ``triggers<N>``: contains list of triggers for an individual connection.
89 * ``channels``: Contains the channel API - CTI main programming interface.
90 * ``regs``: Gives access to the raw programmable CTI regs.
91 * ``mgmt``: the standard CoreSight management registers.
92 * ``connections``: Links to connected *CoreSight* devices. The number of
93 links can be 0 to ``nr_trigger_cons``. Actual number given by ``nr_links``
97 triggers<N> directories
98 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
100 Individual trigger connection information. This describes trigger signals for
101 CoreSight and non-CoreSight connections.
103 Each triggers directory has a set of parameters describing the triggers for
106 * ``name`` : name of connection
107 * ``in_signals`` : input trigger signal indexes used in this connection.
108 * ``in_types`` : functional types for in signals.
109 * ``out_signals`` : output trigger signals for this connection.
110 * ``out_types`` : functional types for out signals.
114 >$ ls ./cti_cpu0/triggers0/
115 in_signals in_types name out_signals out_types
116 >$ cat ./cti_cpu0/triggers0/name
118 >$ cat ./cti_cpu0/triggers0/out_signals
120 >$ cat ./cti_cpu0/triggers0/out_types
121 pe_edbgreq pe_dbgrestart pe_ctiirq
122 >$ cat ./cti_cpu0/triggers0/in_signals
124 >$ cat ./cti_cpu0/triggers0/in_types
125 pe_dbgtrigger pe_pmuirq
127 If a connection has zero signals in either the 'in' or 'out' triggers then
128 those parameters will be omitted.
130 Channels API Directory
131 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
133 This provides an easy way to attach triggers to channels, without needing
134 the multiple register operations that are required if manipulating the
135 'regs' sub-directory elements directly.
137 A number of files provide this API::
139 >$ ls ./cti_sys0/channels/
140 chan_clear chan_inuse chan_xtrigs_out trigin_attach
141 chan_free chan_pulse chan_xtrigs_reset trigin_detach
142 chan_gate_disable chan_set chan_xtrigs_sel trigout_attach
143 chan_gate_enable chan_xtrigs_in trig_filter_enable trigout_detach
146 Most access to these elements take the form::
148 echo <chan> [<trigger>] > /<device_path>/<operation>
150 where the optional <trigger> is only needed for trigXX_attach | detach
155 >$ echo 0 1 > ./cti_sys0/channels/trigout_attach
156 >$ echo 0 > ./cti_sys0/channels/chan_set
158 Attaches trigout(1) to channel(0), then activates channel(0) generating a
159 set state on cti_sys0.trigout(1)
164 * ``trigin_attach, trigout_attach``: Attach a channel to a trigger signal.
165 * ``trigin_detach, trigout_detach``: Detach a channel from a trigger signal.
166 * ``chan_set``: Set the channel - the set state will be propagated around
167 the CTM to other connected devices.
168 * ``chan_clear``: Clear the channel.
169 * ``chan_pulse``: Set the channel for a single CoreSight clock cycle.
170 * ``chan_gate_enable``: Write operation sets the CTI gate to propagate
171 (enable) the channel to other devices. This operation takes a channel
172 number. CTI gate is enabled for all channels by default at power up. Read
173 to list the currently enabled channels on the gate.
174 * ``chan_gate_disable``: Write channel number to disable gate for that
176 * ``chan_inuse``: Show the current channels attached to any signal
177 * ``chan_free``: Show channels with no attached signals.
178 * ``chan_xtrigs_sel``: write a channel number to select a channel to view,
179 read to show the selected channel number.
180 * ``chan_xtrigs_in``: Read to show the input triggers attached to
181 the selected view channel.
182 * ``chan_xtrigs_out``:Read to show the output triggers attached to
183 the selected view channel.
184 * ``trig_filter_enable``: Defaults to enabled, disable to allow potentially
185 dangerous output signals to be set.
186 * ``trigout_filtered``: Trigger out signals that are prevented from being
187 set if filtering ``trig_filter_enable`` is enabled. One use is to prevent
188 accidental ``EDBGREQ`` signals stopping a core.
189 * ``chan_xtrigs_reset``: Write 1 to clear all channel / trigger programming.
190 Resets device hardware to default state.
193 The example below attaches input trigger index 1 to channel 2, and output
194 trigger index 6 to the same channel. It then examines the state of the
195 channel / trigger connections using the appropriate sysfs attributes.
197 The settings mean that if either input trigger 1, or channel 2 go active then
198 trigger out 6 will go active. We then enable the CTI, and use the software
199 channel control to activate channel 2. We see the active channel on the
200 ``choutstatus`` register and the active signal on the ``trigoutstatus``
201 register. Finally clearing the channel removes this.
205 .../cti_sys0/channels# echo 2 1 > trigin_attach
206 .../cti_sys0/channels# echo 2 6 > trigout_attach
207 .../cti_sys0/channels# cat chan_free
209 .../cti_sys0/channels# cat chan_inuse
211 .../cti_sys0/channels# echo 2 > chan_xtrigs_sel
212 .../cti_sys0/channels# cat chan_xtrigs_trigin
214 .../cti_sys0/channels# cat chan_xtrigs_trigout
216 .../cti_sys0/# echo 1 > enable
217 .../cti_sys0/channels# echo 2 > chan_set
218 .../cti_sys0/channels# cat ../regs/choutstatus
220 .../cti_sys0/channels# cat ../regs/trigoutstatus
222 .../cti_sys0/channels# echo 2 > chan_clear
223 .../cti_sys0/channels# cat ../regs/trigoutstatus
225 .../cti_sys0/channels# cat ../regs/choutstatus