[PATCH 00/24] trace: Update the trace feature to work with trace-cmd

[Simon Glass]

Since U-Boot's tracing feature was originally written, quite a few changes
have taken place in this domain. The original text format used by tracing
is still emitted by Linux, but a new trace-cmd tool has invented a binary
format which is now used by new tools, such as kernelshark.

With recent distributions and the move to Python 3, the old pybootchart
tool does not build or run. Unfortunately there is no 1:1 replacement for
the features that were provided by pybootchart, or at least it is not
obvious. Still, it makes sense to keep with the times.

This series updates proftool to use the new binary format, adding support
for function and funcgraph tracing, so that U-Boot's trace records can be
examined by trace-cmd and kernelshark.

This series also adds support for a flamegraph, which provides a visual
way to see which functions are called a lot, as well as which ones consume
the most time.

Some minor updates to the trace implementation within U-Boot are included,
to provide a little more information and to fix a few problems.

No unit tests are provided by proftool, but a functional test ensures that
sandbox can emit traces which can be processed by proftool, then parsed by
trace-cmd and that the timing of the various formats looks consistent.


Simon Glass (24):
  .gitignore: Ignore the moveconfig database
  sandbox: Expand the space for sandbox_vpl
  sandbox: Bring back setting mon_len in global_data
  dm: Allow serial output during the relocation process
  timer: Tidy up use of notrace
  time: Tidy up some unnecessary #ifdefs
  trace: Reduce the default for TRACE_EARLY_CALL_DEPTH_LIMIT
  abuf: Support use from tools
  trace: Update the file header
  trace: Reduce the number of function sites
  trace: Track the minimum stack depth
  trace: Show a few more stats about tracing
  trace: Correct the relocation handover with buffer overflow
  trace: Detect an infinite loop
  trace: Rename prof to trace and improve comments
  trace: Update proftool to use new binary format
  trace: Drop use of objsection
  trace: Use text_base from the trace header
  trace: Support output of funcgraph records
  trace: Support output of a flamegraph
  trace: Provide a flamegraph that uses timing
  Docker: Support trace-cmd
  trace: Add a test
  trace: Update documentation

 .azure-pipelines.yml                   |    8 +
 .gitattributes                         |    1 +
 .gitignore                             |    3 +
 .gitlab-ci.yml                         |   12 +
 arch/sandbox/dts/sandbox_vpl.dtsi      |    4 +-
 common/board_f.c                       |    3 +
 common/board_r.c                       |    9 +
 doc/develop/pics/flamegraph.png        |  Bin 0 -> 48224 bytes
 doc/develop/pics/flamegraph_timing.png |  Bin 0 -> 31305 bytes
 doc/develop/pics/flamegraph_zoom.png   |  Bin 0 -> 25465 bytes
 doc/develop/pics/kernelshark.png       |  Bin 0 -> 29617 bytes
 doc/develop/pics/kernelshark_fg.png    |  Bin 0 -> 28899 bytes
 doc/develop/trace.rst                  |  281 ++++-
 doc/usage/cmd/trace.rst                |  163 +++
 doc/usage/index.rst                    |    1 +
 drivers/core/device.c                  |    3 +-
 drivers/timer/timer-uclass.c           |    2 +-
 include/timer.h                        |   13 +-
 include/trace.h                        |   18 +-
 lib/Kconfig                            |    2 +-
 lib/abuf.c                             |   21 +-
 lib/time.c                             |   14 +-
 lib/trace.c                            |   93 +-
 test/py/tests/test_trace.py            |  304 +++++
 tools/Makefile                         |    3 +
 tools/docker/Dockerfile                |   16 +
 tools/proftool.c                       | 1598 ++++++++++++++++++++++--
 27 files changed, 2345 insertions(+), 227 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 doc/develop/pics/flamegraph.png
 create mode 100644 doc/develop/pics/flamegraph_timing.png
 create mode 100644 doc/develop/pics/flamegraph_zoom.png
 create mode 100644 doc/develop/pics/kernelshark.png
 create mode 100644 doc/develop/pics/kernelshark_fg.png
 create mode 100644 doc/usage/cmd/trace.rst
 create mode 100644 test/py/tests/test_trace.py

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