[PATCH v7 22/23] [RFC] Documentation: Add SCMI System Telemetry documentation
Cristian Marussi <[email protected]> Sun, 2 Aug 2026 15:56:17 +0100
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Document ARM SCMI Telemetry IOCTLs interface. Cc: Jonathan Corbet <[email protected]> Cc: Shuah Khan <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Signed-off-by: Cristian Marussi <[email protected]> --- RFC since it still needs more extensive examples v6 --> v7 - removed useless top '..stlm' reference - added new IOCTLs, fixed a few grammatical errors v5 --> v6 - fixed typos --- Documentation/userspace-api/index.rst | 1 + Documentation/userspace-api/stlm.rst | 148 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 149 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Documentation/userspace-api/stlm.rst diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/index.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/index.rst index a68b1bea57a8..22daa7ebf78e 100644 --- a/Documentation/userspace-api/index.rst +++ b/Documentation/userspace-api/index.rst @@ -54,6 +54,7 @@ Devices and I/O dcdbas vduse isapnp + stlm Everything else =============== diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/stlm.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/stlm.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..a574d392c79e --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/userspace-api/stlm.rst @@ -0,0 +1,148 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 + +======================================= +STLM - ARM SCMI Telemetry Userspace API +======================================= + +.. contents:: + +Overview +======== + +ARM SCMI is a System and Configuration Management protocol, based on a +client-server model, that defines a number of messages that allows a +client/agent like Linux to discover, configure and make use of services +provided by the server/platform firmware. + +SCMI v4.0 [1] introduced support for System Telemetry, through which an +agent can dynamically enumerate, configure and collect Telemetry Data +Events (DE) exposed by the platform. + +The SCMI System Telemetry driver exposes one or more dedicated devices, +named as tlm_<N>, grouped under /dev/scmi/, one for each discovered SCMI +instance. + +An IOCTL based interface is defined in order to enumerate, configure and +read telemetry data, as succinctly described in the following. + +For more details on the uAPI, please see include/uapi/linux/scmi.h + +Resources Enumeration +===================== + + - SCMI_TLM_GET_ABI_INFO: Gather ABI versioning detail and basic SCMI + Telemetry features like number of resources and supported features. + + - SCMI_TLM_GET_INTRVS: Enumerate available update intervals. + + - SCMI_TLM_GET_DE_INFO: Retrieve DataEvent description. + + - SCMI_TLM_GET_DE_LIST: Retrieve the list of all the existent DataEvent + descriptors. + + - SCMI_TLM_GET_GRP_LIST: Gather a list of descriptors for all defined Groups. + + - SCMI_TLM_GET_GRP_INFO: Gather information for a specific Group. + + - SCMI_TLM_GET_GRP_DESC: Gather detailed group composition information for + the specified Group. + + - SCMI_TLM_GET_UUID_LIST: Gather a list of descriptors for all the SCMI + Telemetry UUIDs defined on this system. + +Configuration +============= + + - SCMI_TLM_GET_CFG / SCMI_TLM_SET_CFG: Get or set the whole instance, or a + specific group, configuration. + + - SCMI_TLM_GET_DE_CFG / SCMI_TLM_SET_DE_CFG: Get or set the configuration + of a specific DataEvent. + + - SCMI_TLM_GET_ALL_CFG / SCMI_TLM_SET_ALL_CFG: Get or set the cumulative + configuration of ALL the DataEvents defined on the platform. + + - SCMI_TLM_RESET: Reset the whole Telemetry configuration server side. + + - SCMI_TLM_EVENT_REGISTER: Subscribe/unsubscribe to a Telemetry event. + +Data Collection +=============== + + - SCMI_TLM_DE_READ: Report the last updated sample for the specified + DataEvent. + + - SCMI_TLM_BULK_READ: Report the last samples for all the currently enabled + DataEvents. + + - SCMI_TLM_BATCH_READ: Report the last samples for the DataEvents IDs + specified within the samples input params. + + - SCMI_TLM_SINGLE_READ: Trigger an immediate platform-side DataEvent + update and report the collected samples. + +Memory Mapped Raw Access +------------------------ + + - SCMI_TLM_GET_SHMTI_LIST: Gather a list of open file descriptors, one for + each SHMTI memory area defined for this instance, that can be used to + memory-map such areas in the calling process address space so as to be + able to directly access the SCMI Telemetry SHMTI areas shared by the + platform firmware, and parse the TDCF format. + The SCMI Telemetry TDCF format is defined in the specification at [1]. + + +Example +======= + +.. code-block:: c + + int main(int argc, char **argv) + { + struct scmi_tlm_de_config des_cfg = {}; + struct scmi_tlm_config cfg = {}; + struct scmi_tlm_de_sample samples[3] = {}; + struct scmi_tlm_data_read data = {}; + int fd, ret; + + fd = open("/dev/scmi/tlm_0", O_RDWR); + if (fd < 0) + return fd; + + /* Enable ALL Data Events with timestamps*/ + des_cfg.enable = 1; + des_cfg.t_enable = 1; + ret = ioctl(fd, SCMI_TLM_SET_ALL_CFG, &des_cfg); + if (ret) + return ret; + + /* Enable Telemetry as a whole, set a 400ms update interval */ + cfg.enable = 1; + cfg.active.secs = 400; + cfg.active.exp = -3; + + ret = ioctl(fd, SCMI_TLM_SET_CFG, &cfg); + if (ret) + return ret; + + /* Read a selection of DEs */ + samples[0].id = 0xA001; + samples[1].id = 0x0002; + samples[2].id = 0x1010; + data.num_samples = 3; + data.samples = (unsigned long)samples; + + ret = ioctl(fd, SCMI_TLM_BATCH_READ, &data); + if (ret) + return ret; + + for (int i = 0; i < 3; i++) + fprintf(stdout, "%llu: 0x%08X -> %llu\n", + samples[i].tstamp, samples[i].id, samples[i].val); + + return 0; + } + +References +========== +[1]: https://developer.arm.com/documentation/den0056/latest/ -- 2.54.0