LISA2

Extending project LISA(Linux Integrated System Analysis) with new designs.

Project LISA(https://github.com/ARM-software/lisa) is interesting, but have some limitations from my point of view:

1. Bias towards automated testing, which has overlap in functionality with LAVA(https://www.lavasoftware.org/) from Linaro in some extent
2. Android-oriented, while it is required to adapt to a much more generalized Linux system
3. Lack of plug-in mechanism to integrated existed Kernel analysis and test projects

In LISA2, we are trying to extend LISA in the following ways which is divided into two stages in the plan:

Stage I

1. In addition to Ftrace(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ftrace), combining with eBPF support, especially integrate BCC(https://github.com/iovisor/bcc)
2. Architecture redesign for better support existing Kernel analysis and test utilities, e.g. flexible plug-in mechanism and well-designed interfaces for system extension
3. Integrate the emerging Linux Kernel debugger like Drgn(https://github.com/osandov/drgn)
4. Integrate the emerging Linux Kernel test platform KernelCI(https://kernelci.org/)
5. Better support hardware debug interface like JTAG(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JTAG) and SWD(https://www.arm.com/files/pdf/Serial_Wire_Debug.pdf)
6. Integrate good on-chip debugger like OpenOCD(openocd.org)

Stage II

1. More CoreSight(https://developer.arm.com/architectures/cpu-architecture/debug-visibility-and-trace/coresight-architecture) support will be added ...