Documentation: coresight: Expand branch broadcast documentation
Now that there is a way of enabling branch broadcast via perf, mention the possible use cases and known limitations. Signed-off-by: James Clark <james.clark@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Mike Leach<mike.leach@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220511144601.2257870-5-james.clark@arm.com
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ETM_MODE_BB
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**description:**
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Set to enable branch broadcast if supported in hardware [IDR0].
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Set to enable branch broadcast if supported in hardware [IDR0]. The primary use for this feature
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is when code is patched dynamically at run time and the full program flow may not be able to be
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reconstructed using only conditional branches.
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There is currently no support in Perf for supplying modified binaries to the decoder, so this
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feature is only inteded to be used for debugging purposes or with a 3rd party tool.
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Choosing this option will result in a significant increase in the amount of trace generated -
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possible danger of overflows, or fewer instructions covered. Note, that this option also
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overrides any setting of :ref:`ETM_MODE_RETURNSTACK <coresight-return-stack>`, so where a branch
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broadcast range overlaps a return stack range, return stacks will not be available for that
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range.
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.. _coresight-cycle-accurate:
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