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coresight: Grouping all perf tools oriented section together

This patch groups together section pertaining to the perf tools.  That way
everything is at the same place rather than spread out.

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Mathieu Poirier 7 years ago
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      Documentation/trace/coresight.txt

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Documentation/trace/coresight.txt

@@ -345,42 +345,7 @@ 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
 the perf tools can be found in the "HOWTO.md" file of the openCSD gitHub
 repository [3].
 repository [3].
 
 
-How to use the STM module
--------------------------
-
-Using the System Trace Macrocell module is the same as the tracers - the only
-difference is that clients are driving the trace capture rather
-than the program flow through the code.
-
-As with any other CoreSight component, specifics about the STM tracer can be
-found in sysfs with more information on each entry being found in [1]:
-
-root@genericarmv8:~# ls /sys/bus/coresight/devices/20100000.stm
-enable_source   hwevent_select  port_enable     subsystem       uevent
-hwevent_enable  mgmt            port_select     traceid
-root@genericarmv8:~#
-
-Like any other source a sink needs to be identified and the STM enabled before
-being used:
-
-root@genericarmv8:~# echo 1 > /sys/bus/coresight/devices/20010000.etf/enable_sink
-root@genericarmv8:~# echo 1 > /sys/bus/coresight/devices/20100000.stm/enable_source
-
-From there user space applications can request and use channels using the devfs
-interface provided for that purpose by the generic STM API:
-
-root@genericarmv8:~# ls -l /dev/20100000.stm
-crw-------    1 root     root       10,  61 Jan  3 18:11 /dev/20100000.stm
-root@genericarmv8:~#
-
-Details on how to use the generic STM API can be found here [2].
-
-[1]. Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-coresight-devices-stm
-[2]. Documentation/trace/stm.txt
-
-
-Using perf tools
-----------------
+2.1) AutoFDO analysis using the perf tools:
 
 
 perf can be used to record and analyze trace of programs.
 perf can be used to record and analyze trace of programs.
 
 
@@ -428,3 +393,38 @@ sort example is from the AutoFDO tutorial (https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/AutoFDO/Tuto
 	$ taskset -c 2 ./sort_autofdo
 	$ taskset -c 2 ./sort_autofdo
 	Bubble sorting array of 30000 elements
 	Bubble sorting array of 30000 elements
 	5806 ms
 	5806 ms
+
+
+How to use the STM module
+-------------------------
+
+Using the System Trace Macrocell module is the same as the tracers - the only
+difference is that clients are driving the trace capture rather
+than the program flow through the code.
+
+As with any other CoreSight component, specifics about the STM tracer can be
+found in sysfs with more information on each entry being found in [1]:
+
+root@genericarmv8:~# ls /sys/bus/coresight/devices/20100000.stm
+enable_source   hwevent_select  port_enable     subsystem       uevent
+hwevent_enable  mgmt            port_select     traceid
+root@genericarmv8:~#
+
+Like any other source a sink needs to be identified and the STM enabled before
+being used:
+
+root@genericarmv8:~# echo 1 > /sys/bus/coresight/devices/20010000.etf/enable_sink
+root@genericarmv8:~# echo 1 > /sys/bus/coresight/devices/20100000.stm/enable_source
+
+From there user space applications can request and use channels using the devfs
+interface provided for that purpose by the generic STM API:
+
+root@genericarmv8:~# ls -l /dev/20100000.stm
+crw-------    1 root     root       10,  61 Jan  3 18:11 /dev/20100000.stm
+root@genericarmv8:~#
+
+Details on how to use the generic STM API can be found here [2].
+
+[1]. Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-coresight-devices-stm
+[2]. Documentation/trace/stm.txt
+[3]. https://github.com/Linaro/perf-opencsd