linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH/RFC v2 1/4] ARM: hw_breakpoint: Add arm_dbg_regs

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Date:	Tue, 30 Sep 2014 17:03:31 +0100
From:	Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>
To:	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@...der.be>
Cc:	Russell King <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@...aro.org>,
	Simon Horman <horms@...ge.net.au>,
	Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@...il.com>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
	"linux-sh@...r.kernel.org" <linux-sh@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC v2 1/4] ARM: hw_breakpoint: Add
 arm_dbg_regs_available flag

Hi Geert,

On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 01:26:24PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> If power area D4, which contains the Coresight-ETM hardware block, is
> powered down on R-Mobile A1 (r8a7740), the kernel crashes when
> suspending from s2ram with:
> 
>     Internal error: Oops - undefined instruction: 0 [#1] ARM
> 
> This happens because dbg_cpu_pm_notify() calls reset_ctrl_regs(), which
> can't access the debug registers as the debug module is powered down.
> 
> As suggested by Russell King, track whether the ETM block is powered down
> to fix this.
> 
> The availability of the debug registers depends on the platform and its
> state.  Hence provide a mechanism for platform code to indicate that the
> debug registers are available or not, using a boolean flag that defaults
> to true.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@...der.be>
> ---
> v2:
>   - New
> 
>  arch/arm/include/asm/hw_breakpoint.h | 2 ++
>  arch/arm/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c      | 7 +++++++
>  2 files changed, 9 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/hw_breakpoint.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/hw_breakpoint.h
> index 8e427c7b44257d2d..51ffdae41bfe3754 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/include/asm/hw_breakpoint.h
> +++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/hw_breakpoint.h
> @@ -110,6 +110,8 @@ static inline void decode_ctrl_reg(u32 reg,
>  	asm volatile("mcr p14, 0, %0, " #N "," #M ", " #OP2 : : "r" (VAL));\
>  } while (0)
>  
> +extern bool arm_dbg_regs_available;
> +
>  struct notifier_block;
>  struct perf_event;
>  struct pmu;
> diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c b/arch/arm/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c
> index b5b452f90f761bd2..96193c0165fbe5ca 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c
> +++ b/arch/arm/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c
> @@ -38,6 +38,8 @@
>  #include <asm/traps.h>
>  #include <asm/hardware/coresight.h>
>  
> +bool arm_dbg_regs_available = true;
> +
>  /* Breakpoint currently in use for each BRP. */
>  static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct perf_event *, bp_on_reg[ARM_MAX_BRP]);
>  
> @@ -931,6 +933,11 @@ static void reset_ctrl_regs(void *unused)
>  	int i, raw_num_brps, err = 0, cpu = smp_processor_id();
>  	u32 val;
>  
> +	if (!arm_dbg_regs_available) {
> +		pr_warn_once("Debug registers are not available\n");
> +		return;
> +	}

Whilst I guess this solves your problem, it doesn't feel like a scalable fix
for something that can/will assumedly happen elsewhere in an SoC (e.g. PMU
registers in perf). I'd much rather have a generic abstraction for power
domains, which subsystems such as hw_breakpoint can attempt to take a
reference on when they want to access registers in that domain.

Will
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