diff --git a/src/arch/arm/tracers/SConscript b/src/arch/arm/tracers/SConscript
index a509b220ed..15945a4ac4 100644
--- a/src/arch/arm/tracers/SConscript
+++ b/src/arch/arm/tracers/SConscript
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@
 Import('*')
 
 SimObject('TarmacTrace.py', sim_objects=['TarmacParser', 'TarmacTracer'],
-        tags='arm isa')
+        enums=['TarmacDump'], tags='arm isa')
 Source('tarmac_base.cc', tags='arm isa')
 Source('tarmac_parser.cc', tags='arm isa')
 Source('tarmac_tracer.cc', tags='arm isa')
diff --git a/src/arch/arm/tracers/TarmacTrace.py b/src/arch/arm/tracers/TarmacTrace.py
index 0e87ec995b..82c447aada 100644
--- a/src/arch/arm/tracers/TarmacTrace.py
+++ b/src/arch/arm/tracers/TarmacTrace.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright (c) 2018 ARM Limited
+# Copyright (c) 2018, 2022 Arm Limited
 # All rights reserved.
 #
 # The license below extends only to copyright in the software and shall
@@ -67,6 +67,10 @@ class TarmacParser(InstTracer):
     )
 
 
+class TarmacDump(ScopedEnum):
+    vals = ["stdoutput", "stderror", "file"]
+
+
 class TarmacTracer(InstTracer):
     type = "TarmacTracer"
     cxx_class = "gem5::trace::TarmacTracer"
@@ -79,3 +83,13 @@ class TarmacTracer(InstTracer):
     end_tick = Param.Tick(
         MaxTick, "tracing ends when the tick time gets this value"
     )
+    outfile = Param.TarmacDump(
+        "stdoutput",
+        "Selects where the tracer is dumping its output"
+        "Current options are:"
+        "1) stdoutput = dump to standard output"
+        "2) stderror = dump to standard error"
+        "3) file = dump to a file. As there is one tracer per CPU,"
+        "this means every CPU will dump its trace to a different file,"
+        "name after the tracer name (e.g. cpu0.tracer, cpu1.tracer)",
+    )
diff --git a/src/arch/arm/tracers/tarmac_record.cc b/src/arch/arm/tracers/tarmac_record.cc
index 9d56aa39ee..59d6a18b39 100644
--- a/src/arch/arm/tracers/tarmac_record.cc
+++ b/src/arch/arm/tracers/tarmac_record.cc
@@ -374,7 +374,7 @@ template<typename Queue>
 void
 TarmacTracerRecord::flushQueues(Queue& queue)
 {
-    std::ostream &outs = trace::output();
+    std::ostream &outs = tracer.output();
 
     for (const auto &single_entry : queue) {
         single_entry->print(outs);
diff --git a/src/arch/arm/tracers/tarmac_tracer.cc b/src/arch/arm/tracers/tarmac_tracer.cc
index 15f6abcc47..aa454f7539 100644
--- a/src/arch/arm/tracers/tarmac_tracer.cc
+++ b/src/arch/arm/tracers/tarmac_tracer.cc
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright (c) 2017-2018 ARM Limited
+ * Copyright (c) 2017-2018, 2022 Arm Limited
  * All rights reserved
  *
  * The license below extends only to copyright in the software and shall
@@ -40,8 +40,11 @@
 #include <string>
 
 #include "arch/arm/system.hh"
+#include "base/output.hh"
 #include "cpu/base.hh"
 
+#include "enums/TarmacDump.hh"
+
 namespace gem5
 {
 
@@ -54,8 +57,28 @@ TarmacContext::tarmacCpuName() const
     return "cpu" + std::to_string(id);
 }
 
+namespace {
+
+OutputStream *
+tarmacDump(const TarmacTracerParams &p)
+{
+    switch (p.outfile) {
+      case TarmacDump::stdoutput:
+        return simout.findOrCreate("stdout");
+      case TarmacDump::stderror:
+        return simout.findOrCreate("stderr");
+      case TarmacDump::file:
+        return simout.findOrCreate(p.name);
+      default:
+        panic("Invalid option\n");
+    }
+}
+
+}
+
 TarmacTracer::TarmacTracer(const Params &p)
   : InstTracer(p),
+    outstream(tarmacDump(p)),
     startTick(p.start_tick),
     endTick(p.end_tick)
 {
@@ -95,5 +118,11 @@ TarmacTracer::getInstRecord(Tick when, ThreadContext *tc,
     }
 }
 
+std::ostream&
+TarmacTracer::output()
+{
+    return *(outstream->stream());
+}
+
 } // namespace trace
 } // namespace gem5
diff --git a/src/arch/arm/tracers/tarmac_tracer.hh b/src/arch/arm/tracers/tarmac_tracer.hh
index 7e7b409543..f8c7b5ca53 100644
--- a/src/arch/arm/tracers/tarmac_tracer.hh
+++ b/src/arch/arm/tracers/tarmac_tracer.hh
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright (c) 2017-2018 ARM Limited
+ * Copyright (c) 2017-2018, 2022 Arm Limited
  * All rights reserved
  *
  * The license below extends only to copyright in the software and shall
@@ -54,6 +54,7 @@ namespace gem5
 {
 
 class ThreadContext;
+class OutputStream;
 
 namespace trace {
 
@@ -104,12 +105,16 @@ class TarmacTracer : public InstTracer
             const StaticInstPtr staticInst, const PCStateBase &pc,
             const StaticInstPtr macroStaticInst=nullptr) override;
 
+    std::ostream& output();
+
   protected:
     typedef std::unique_ptr<Printable> PEntryPtr;
     typedef TarmacTracerRecord::InstPtr InstPtr;
     typedef TarmacTracerRecord::MemPtr MemPtr;
     typedef TarmacTracerRecord::RegPtr RegPtr;
 
+    OutputStream *outstream;
+
     /**
      * startTick and endTick allow to trace a specific window of ticks
      * rather than the entire CPU execution.