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Below is an example of how the TRACE32-based log method can be applied to a Linux system. The solution is based on light instrumentation of the <code>mmc_start_request()</code> and <code>mmc_request_done()</code> functions defined in the Linux <code>drivers/mmc/core/core.c</code> source code file. Relevant eMMC device accesses are captured through the instrumentation code and they are written to a static data structure making them immediately traceable if data trace is available in the SoC. If data tracing is not possible, the instrumentation code writes the data to the Arm®/Cortex® Context ID register.
The solution was successfully tested on the aforementioned embedded platform. The instrumentation code is provided in [[#Appendix 1: source code example|Appendix 1]]. The zero initialization of the <code>T32_mmc</code> structure is guaranteed by Linux, since this variable is allocated in the <code>bss </code> section. The instrumentation is normally disabled but can be enabled by writing the value "1" into the <code>enable</code> field of the <code>T32_mmc</code> structure. The identifier of the eMMC device to be traced must be written into the <code>dev</code> field. Both of these operations can be performed from a TRACE32 script with the following commands:
<pre class="workstation-terminal">
NOTE: ‘OR Cycle task’ is optional.
This implementation along with the software-based method were was tested on the following use case:
* Read/write workload to the mmc0 device was issued by using [https://github.com/stressapptest/stressapptest stressapptest] application (<code>stressapptest -s 20 -f /mnt/mmc0/file1 -f /mnt/mmc0/file2</code>) resulting in the creation of two files, 16 MByte each
<pre class="workstation-terminal">
cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_pipe > /home/root/prove/ftrace.txt
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===== Verification =====
To verity for correctness the TRACE
==== Results and comparison with the software-based method (<code>ftrace</code>) ====
