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Message-ID: <95c828ce-e0c8-adde-84da-bc37c215aaf1@quicinc.com>
Date: Wed, 4 May 2022 17:02:18 +0530
From: Sai Prakash Ranjan <quic_saipraka@...cinc.com>
To: <arnd@...db.de>, <catalin.marinas@....com>, <rostedt@...dmis.org>
CC: <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
<linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
<maz@...nel.org>, <quic_psodagud@...cinc.com>,
<quic_tsoni@...cinc.com>, <will@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv14 0/9] lib/rwmmio/arm64: Add support to trace register
reads/writes
Hi Arnd,
On 5/4/2022 4:58 PM, Sai Prakash Ranjan wrote:
> Generic MMIO read/write i.e., __raw_{read,write}{b,l,w,q} accessors
> are typically used to read/write from/to memory mapped registers
> and can cause hangs or some undefined behaviour in following cases,
>
> * If the access to the register space is unclocked, for example: if
> there is an access to multimedia(MM) block registers without MM
> clocks.
>
> * If the register space is protected and not set to be accessible from
> non-secure world, for example: only EL3 (EL: Exception level) access
> is allowed and any EL2/EL1 access is forbidden.
>
> * If xPU(memory/register protection units) is controlling access to
> certain memory/register space for specific clients.
>
> and more...
>
> Such cases usually results in instant reboot/SErrors/NOC or interconnect
> hangs and tracing these register accesses can be very helpful to debug
> such issues during initial development stages and also in later stages.
>
> So use ftrace trace events to log such MMIO register accesses which
> provides rich feature set such as early enablement of trace events,
> filtering capability, dumping ftrace logs on console and many more.
>
> Sample output:
>
> rwmmio_write: __qcom_geni_serial_console_write+0x160/0x1e0 width=32 val=0xa0d5d addr=0xfffffbfffdbff700
> rwmmio_post_write: __qcom_geni_serial_console_write+0x160/0x1e0 width=32 val=0xa0d5d addr=0xfffffbfffdbff700
> rwmmio_read: qcom_geni_serial_poll_bit+0x94/0x138 width=32 addr=0xfffffbfffdbff610
> rwmmio_post_read: qcom_geni_serial_poll_bit+0x94/0x138 width=32 val=0x0 addr=0xfffffbfffdbff610
>
> This series is a follow-up for the series [1] and a recent series [2] making use
> of both.
>
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/cover.1536430404.git.saiprakash.ranjan@codeaurora.org/
> [2] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1604631386-178312-1-git-send-email-psodagud@codeaurora.org/
>
> Note in v4 version, Arnd suggested to benchmark and compare size with callback
> based implementation, please see [3] for more details on that with brief comparison below.
>
>
> **Inline version with CONFIG_FTRACE=y and CONFIG_TRACE_MMIO_ACCESS=y**
> $ size vmlinux
> text data bss dec hex filename
> 23884219 14284468 532568 38701255 24e88c7 vmlinux
>
> **Callback version with CONFIG_FTRACE=y and CONFIG_TRACE_MMIO_ACCESS=y**
> $ size vmlinux
> text data bss dec hex filename
> 24108179 14279596 532568 38920343 251e097 vmlinux
>
> $ ./scripts/bloat-o-meter inline-vmlinux callback-vmlinux
> add/remove: 8/3 grow/shrink: 4889/89 up/down: 242244/-11564 (230680)
> Total: Before=25812612, After=26043292, chg +0.89%
>
> [3] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/466449a1-36da-aaa9-7e4f-477f36b52c9e@quicinc.com/
>
> Changes in v14:
> * Add more description to disabling MMIO traces in geni serial drivers (Steve).
>
> Changes in v13:
> * Remove the copyright update as one line change doesn't warrant it (Greg and Lawyers :))
> * Update the comment about disabling MMIO traces in geni se and uart drivers.
> * Add description for the build time flag to asm-generic/io.h.
>
> Changes in v12:
> * Split the generic flag addition patch (Greg).
> * Move the flag from makefile to driver .c file (Greg).
>
> Changes in v11:
> * Use unsigned long for caller ip and current ip addr (Steven Rostedt).
> * Include review tags from Arnd.
>
> Changes in v10:
> * Use GENMASK(31, 0) for -Woverflow warning in irqchip tegra driver (Marc).
> * Convert ETM4x ARM64 driver to use asm-generic IO memory barriers (Catalin).
> * Collect ack from Catalin for arm64 change.
>
> Changes in v9:
> * Use TRACE_EVENT_CLASS for rwmmio_write and post_write (Steven Rostedt).
>
> Changes in v8:
> * Fix build error reported by kernel test robot.
>
> Changes in v7:
> * Use lib/ instead of kernel/trace/ based on review comment by Steven Rostedt.
>
> Changes in v6:
> * Implemented suggestions by Arnd Bergmann:
> - Use arch independent IO barriers in arm64/asm
> - Add ARCH_HAVE_TRACE_MMIO_ACCESS
> - Add post read and post write logging support
> - Remove tracepoint_active check
> * Fix build error reported by kernel test robot.
>
> Changes in v5:
> * Move arm64 to use asm-generic provided high level MMIO accessors (Arnd).
> * Add inline logging for MMIO relaxed and non-relaxed accessors.
> * Move nVHE KVM comment to makefile (Marc).
> * Fix overflow warning due to switch to inline accessors instead of macro.
> * Modify trace event field to include caller and parent details for more detailed logs.
>
> Changes in v4:
> * Drop dynamic debug based filter support since that will be developed later with
> the help from Steven (Ftrace maintainer).
> * Drop value passed to writel as it is causing hangs when tracing is enabled.
> * Code cleanup for trace event as suggested by Steven for earlier version.
> * Fixed some build errors reported by 0-day bot.
>
> Changes in v3:
> * Create a generic mmio header for instrumented version (Earlier suggested in [1]
> by Will Deacon and recently [2] by Greg to have a generic version first).
> * Add dynamic debug support to filter out traces which can be very useful for targeted
> debugging specific to subsystems or drivers.
> * Few modifications to the rwmmio trace event fields to include the mmio width and print
> addresses in hex.
> * Rewrote commit msg to explain some more about usecases.
>
> Prasad Sodagudi (1):
> lib: Add register read/write tracing support
>
> Sai Prakash Ranjan (8):
> arm64: io: Use asm-generic high level MMIO accessors
> coresight: etm4x: Use asm-generic IO memory barriers
> irqchip/tegra: Fix overflow implicit truncation warnings
> drm/meson: Fix overflow implicit truncation warnings
> KVM: arm64: Add a flag to disable MMIO trace for nVHE KVM
> asm-generic/io: Add logging support for MMIO accessors
> serial: qcom_geni_serial: Disable MMIO tracing for geni serial
> soc: qcom: geni: Disable MMIO tracing for GENI SE
>
> arch/Kconfig | 3 +
> arch/arm64/Kconfig | 1 +
> arch/arm64/include/asm/io.h | 41 ++------
> arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/Makefile | 7 +-
> drivers/gpu/drm/meson/meson_viu.c | 22 ++---
> .../coresight/coresight-etm4x-core.c | 8 +-
> drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm4x.h | 8 +-
> drivers/irqchip/irq-tegra.c | 10 +-
> drivers/soc/qcom/qcom-geni-se.c | 3 +
> drivers/tty/serial/qcom_geni_serial.c | 3 +
> include/asm-generic/io.h | 91 ++++++++++++++++-
> include/trace/events/rwmmio.h | 97 +++++++++++++++++++
> lib/Kconfig | 7 ++
> lib/Makefile | 2 +
> lib/trace_readwrite.c | 47 +++++++++
> 15 files changed, 288 insertions(+), 62 deletions(-)
> create mode 100644 include/trace/events/rwmmio.h
> create mode 100644 lib/trace_readwrite.c
>
Could you take first 4 patches which are independent and not related to MMIO tracing?
And the rest can be taken once we get ack from Steve for the tracing part.
Thanks,
Sai
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