[PATCH V3 13/18] coresight: tmc: make sysFS and Perf mode mutually exclusive

[Mathieu Poirier]

On 25 April 2016 at 08:52, Suzuki K Poulose <Suzuki.Poulose at arm.com> wrote:
> On 25/04/16 15:48, Mathieu Poirier wrote:
>>
>> On 25 April 2016 at 08:32, Suzuki K Poulose <Suzuki.Poulose at arm.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 22/04/16 18:14, Mathieu Poirier wrote:
>
>
>>>> +       spin_lock_irqsave(&drvdata->spinlock, flags);
>>>> +       if (drvdata->reading) {
>>>> +               ret = -EINVAL;
>>>> +               goto out;
>>>> +       }
>>>> +
>>>> +       val = local_xchg(&drvdata->mode, mode);
>>>> +       /*
>>>> +        * In Perf mode there can be only one writer per sink.  There
>>>> +        * is also no need to continue if the ETR is already operated
>>>> +        * from sysFS.
>>>> +        */
>>>> +       if (val != CS_MODE_DISABLED) {
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Could val be CS_MODE_PERF ? In other words, should we be checking :
>>>          if (val == CS_MODE_SYSFS)  instead ?
>>
>>
>> If we check for CS_MODE_SYSFS we also have to check for CS_MODE_PERF,
>> which is two checks rather than a single one with the current
>> solution.
>
>
> I am confused now. The comment says, we want to check for sysfs mode and
> don't continue in that case. So, we shouldn't be worried about PERF mode.

You are correct about the sysFS part, but the first sentence of the
comment also mention that in perf mode there can only be one writer
per sink.  Otherwise ring buffers for one session would end up with
traces from other ongoing sessions, and that is not taking into
account the buffer management nightmares it would cause.

Mathieu

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> Suzuki
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