linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] coresight: etm4x: Handle unreachable sink in perf mode

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Message-ID: <14ff4a0b-8733-5ae4-d65a-b916e5c4a61c@arm.com>
Date:   Tue, 18 Aug 2020 16:17:41 -0500
From:   Jeremy Linton <jeremy.linton@....com>
To:     Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@....com>,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, mathieu.poirier@...aro.org,
        coresight@...ts.linaro.org, Mike Leach <mike.leach@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] coresight: etm4x: Handle unreachable sink in perf mode

Hi,

On 8/18/20 2:29 PM, Suzuki K Poulose wrote:
> If the specified/hinted sink is not reachable from a subset of the CPUs,
> we could end up unable to trace the event on those CPUs. This
> is the best effort we could do until we support 1:1 configurations.
> Fail gracefully in such cases avoiding a WARN_ON, which can be easily
> triggered by the user on certain platforms, like :

I've tested it on 5.8 with "coresight: fix offset by one error in 
counting ports" on the N1SDP and i'm getting traces, and not seeing any 
further WARN's.

Thanks for looking into this!

Tested-by: Jeremy Linton <jeremy.linton@....com>

> 
> [10919.513250] ------------[ cut here ]------------
> [10919.517861] WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 24021 at
> drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm-perf.c:316 etm_event_start+0xf8/0x100
> ...
> 
> [10919.564403] CPU: 2 PID: 24021 Comm: perf Not tainted 5.8.0+ #24
> [10919.570308] pstate: 80400089 (Nzcv daIf +PAN -UAO BTYPE=--)
> [10919.575865] pc : etm_event_start+0xf8/0x100
> [10919.580034] lr : etm_event_start+0x80/0x100
> [10919.584202] sp : fffffe001932f940
> [10919.587502] x29: fffffe001932f940 x28: fffffc834995f800
> [10919.592799] x27: 0000000000000000 x26: fffffe0011f3ced0
> [10919.598095] x25: fffffc837fce244c x24: fffffc837fce2448
> [10919.603391] x23: 0000000000000002 x22: fffffc8353529c00
> [10919.608688] x21: fffffc835bb31000 x20: 0000000000000000
> [10919.613984] x19: fffffc837fcdcc70 x18: 0000000000000000
> [10919.619281] x17: 0000000000000000 x16: 0000000000000000
> [10919.624577] x15: 0000000000000000 x14: 00000000000009f8
> [10919.629874] x13: 00000000000009f8 x12: 0000000000000018
> [10919.635170] x11: 0000000000000000 x10: 0000000000000000
> [10919.640467] x9 : fffffe00108cd168 x8 : 0000000000000000
> [10919.645763] x7 : 0000000000000020 x6 : 0000000000000001
> [10919.651059] x5 : 0000000000000002 x4 : 0000000000000001
> [10919.656356] x3 : 0000000000000000 x2 : 0000000000000000
> [10919.661652] x1 : fffffe836eb40000 x0 : 0000000000000000
> [10919.666949] Call trace:
> [10919.669382]  etm_event_start+0xf8/0x100
> [10919.673203]  etm_event_add+0x40/0x60
> [10919.676765]  event_sched_in.isra.134+0xcc/0x210
> [10919.681281]  merge_sched_in+0xb0/0x2a8
> [10919.685017]  visit_groups_merge.constprop.140+0x15c/0x4b8
> [10919.690400]  ctx_sched_in+0x15c/0x170
> [10919.694048]  perf_event_sched_in+0x6c/0xa0
> [10919.698130]  ctx_resched+0x60/0xa0
> [10919.701517]  perf_event_exec+0x288/0x2f0
> [10919.705425]  begin_new_exec+0x4c8/0xf58
> [10919.709247]  load_elf_binary+0x66c/0xf30
> [10919.713155]  exec_binprm+0x15c/0x450
> [10919.716716]  __do_execve_file+0x508/0x748
> [10919.720711]  __arm64_sys_execve+0x40/0x50
> [10919.724707]  do_el0_svc+0xf4/0x1b8
> [10919.728095]  el0_sync_handler+0xf8/0x124
> [10919.732003]  el0_sync+0x140/0x180
> 
> Fixes: f9d81a657bb8 ("coresight: perf: Allow tracing on hotplugged CPUs")
> Reported-by: Jeremy Linton <jeremy.linton@....com>
> Cc: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@...aro.org>
> Cc: Mike Leach <mike.leach@...aro.org>
> Signed-off-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@....com>
> ---
>   drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm-perf.c | 10 ++++++++++
>   1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm-perf.c b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm-perf.c
> index 1a3169e69bb1..9d61a71da96f 100644
> --- a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm-perf.c
> +++ b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm-perf.c
> @@ -321,6 +321,16 @@ static void etm_event_start(struct perf_event *event, int flags)
>   	if (!event_data)
>   		goto fail;
>   
> +	/*
> +	 * Check if this ETM is allowed to trace, as decided
> +	 * at etm_setup_aux(). This could be due to an unreachable
> +	 * sink from this ETM. We can't do much in this case if
> +	 * the sink was specified or hinted to the driver. For
> +	 * now, simply don't record anything on this ETM.
> +	 */
> +	if (!cpumask_test_cpu(cpu, &event_data->mask))
> +		goto fail_end_stop;
> +
>   	path = etm_event_cpu_path(event_data, cpu);
>   	/* We need a sink, no need to continue without one */
>   	sink = coresight_get_sink(path);
>