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Message-ID: <20250401132308.GB115840@e132581.arm.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2025 14:23:08 +0100
From: Leo Yan <leo.yan@....com>
To: James Clark <james.clark@...aro.org>
Cc: Yabin Cui <yabinc@...gle.com>, coresight@...ts.linaro.org,
linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@....com>,
Mike Leach <mike.leach@...aro.org>,
Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] coresight: catu: Introduce refcount and spinlock for
enabling/disabling
Hi all,
On Mon, Mar 31, 2025 at 03:24:46PM +0100, James Clark wrote:
> On 28/03/2025 10:38 pm, Yabin Cui wrote:
[...]
> > diff --git a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-catu.c b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-catu.c
> > index 275cc0d9f505..834a7ffbbdbc 100644
> > --- a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-catu.c
> > +++ b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-catu.c
> > @@ -458,12 +458,19 @@ static int catu_enable_hw(struct catu_drvdata *drvdata, enum cs_mode cs_mode,
> > static int catu_enable(struct coresight_device *csdev, enum cs_mode mode,
> > void *data)
> > {
> > - int rc;
> > + int rc = 0;
> > + unsigned long flags;
> > struct catu_drvdata *catu_drvdata = csdev_to_catu_drvdata(csdev);
> > - CS_UNLOCK(catu_drvdata->base);
> > - rc = catu_enable_hw(catu_drvdata, mode, data);
> > - CS_LOCK(catu_drvdata->base);
> > + spin_lock_irqsave(&catu_drvdata->spinlock, flags);
> Hi Yabin,
>
> This needs to be a raw_spinlock since [1]. Also you might as well use the
> new guard() thing to save someone find-and-replacing it later.
>
> But I'm wondering if this is accurate. The ETR's refcount is dependent on
> the pid of the owner of the trace session:
>
> /* Do not proceed if this device is associated with another session */
> if (drvdata->pid != -1 && drvdata->pid != pid) {
> rc = -EBUSY;
> goto unlock_out;
> }
>
> /*
> * No HW configuration is needed if the sink is already in
> * use for this session.
> */
> if (drvdata->pid == pid) {
> csdev->refcnt++;
> goto unlock_out;
> }
>
> If the helpers get enabled first, could this mean that CATU gets associated
> with a different session than the ETR? Maybe not, but it would be easier to
> understand if the core code handled the refcounting and locking for linked
> devices.
Yes, CATU can be enabled in a different session or even is disturbed
by another mode (E.g., CATU is enabled in a perf session, then it
might be wrongly enabled for Sysfs mode).
But anyway, I think this patch is needed to protect the low level's
operations with a raw spin lock.
Thanks,
Leo
> [1]:
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250306121110.1647948-3-yeoreum.yun@arm.com/
>
> Thanks
> James
>
> > + if (csdev->refcnt == 0) {
> > + CS_UNLOCK(catu_drvdata->base);
> > + rc = catu_enable_hw(catu_drvdata, mode, data);
> > + CS_LOCK(catu_drvdata->base);
> > + }
> > + if (!rc)
> > + csdev->refcnt++;
> > + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&catu_drvdata->spinlock, flags);
> > return rc;
> > }
> > @@ -486,12 +493,17 @@ static int catu_disable_hw(struct catu_drvdata *drvdata)
> > static int catu_disable(struct coresight_device *csdev, void *__unused)
> > {
> > - int rc;
> > + int rc = 0;
> > + unsigned long flags;
> > struct catu_drvdata *catu_drvdata = csdev_to_catu_drvdata(csdev);
> > - CS_UNLOCK(catu_drvdata->base);
> > - rc = catu_disable_hw(catu_drvdata);
> > - CS_LOCK(catu_drvdata->base);
> > + spin_lock_irqsave(&catu_drvdata->spinlock, flags);
> > + if (--csdev->refcnt == 0) {
> > + CS_UNLOCK(catu_drvdata->base);
> > + rc = catu_disable_hw(catu_drvdata);
> > + CS_LOCK(catu_drvdata->base);
> > + }
> > + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&catu_drvdata->spinlock, flags);
> > return rc;
> > }
> > @@ -550,6 +562,7 @@ static int __catu_probe(struct device *dev, struct resource *res)
> > dev->platform_data = pdata;
> > drvdata->base = base;
> > + spin_lock_init(&drvdata->spinlock);
> > catu_desc.access = CSDEV_ACCESS_IOMEM(base);
> > catu_desc.pdata = pdata;
> > catu_desc.dev = dev;
> > diff --git a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-catu.h b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-catu.h
> > index 141feac1c14b..663282ec6381 100644
> > --- a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-catu.h
> > +++ b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-catu.h
> > @@ -65,6 +65,7 @@ struct catu_drvdata {
> > void __iomem *base;
> > struct coresight_device *csdev;
> > int irq;
> > + spinlock_t spinlock;
> > };
> > #define CATU_REG32(name, offset) \
>
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