1. Article purpose[edit source]
This article provides the basic information needed to build the user space tools available on the Linux® kernel.
2. Introduction[edit source]
The Linux kernel provides some user-space tools that are available in the tools directory [1] of the source tree.
These tools are not compiled by default when compiling the Linux kernel for the target board. They can be compiled independently, depending on the user's needs.
3. Installing the trace and debug tool on your target board[edit source]
3.1. Using the STM32MPU Embedded Software distribution[edit source]
3.1.1. Developer Package[edit source]
Prerequisites, please ensure:
The available user space tools can be listed by using the following commands in the Linux kernel source root path:
cd <Linux_kernel_source_path> make tools/help O="<Linux_kernel_build_dir>" (optional) Possible targets: acpi - ACPI tools cgroup - cgroup tools cpupower - a tool for all things x86 CPU power firewire - the userspace part of nosy, an IEEE-1394 traffic sniffer freefall - laptop accelerometer program for disk protection gpio - GPIO tools hv - tools used when in Hyper-V clients iio - IIO tools kvm_stat - top-like utility for displaying kvm statistics leds - LEDs tools liblockdep - user-space wrapper for kernel locking-validator bpf - misc BPF tools perf - Linux performance measurement and analysis tool selftests - various kernel selftests spi - spi tools objtool - an ELF object analysis tool tmon - thermal monitoring and tuning tool turbostat - Intel CPU idle stats and freq reporting tool usb - USB testing tools virtio - vhost test module vm - misc vm tools wmi - WMI interface examples x86_energy_perf_policy - Intel energy policy tool
Note: some tools are made for specific platforms (ARM, x86, RISC, and so on), so cannot be used on STM32MPU systems
The following basic steps must be done :
- Compiling the application:
- - Refer to <Linux kernel installation directory>/README.HOW_TO.txt helper file to know how to compile (the latest version of this helper file is also available in GitHub: README.HOW_TO.txt ).
- - Ensure at least that the kernel configuration file is generated (.config) (information available in README.HWO_TO file previously mentioned)
- - Compile the expected tool (i.e. iio, spi...)
cd <Linux_kernel_source_path>/tools make <tool> [O=<Linux_kernel_build_dir>]
Note: The 'O' option can be used to specify the output directory
- Deploying the application on a board:
- -The binary is generated in the directory path <Linux_kernel_build_dir>/<tool>
- -Push it onto the board.
scp <tool_binary> root@<board ip address>:/<dest_path>
PS: please ensure that the <dest_path> is known in the $PATH to execute the tool binary from anywhere on the target board.
3.1.2. Distribution Package[edit source]
There is currently no recipe to build the Linux kernel user space tools, so the Developer package has to be used.
4. References[edit source]