[2/2] coresight: Fix reference count for software sources

Suzuki K Poulose Suzuki.Poulose at arm.com
Tue Mar 14 10:55:33 PDT 2017


On 14/03/17 17:40, Mathieu Poirier wrote:
> On 14 March 2017 at 11:32, Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier at linaro.org> wrote:
>> From: "Suzuki K. Poulose" <Suzuki.Poulose at arm.com>
>>
>> For software sources (i.e STM), there could be multiple agents
>> generating the trace data, unlike the ETMs. So we need to
>> properly do the accounting for the active number of users
>> to disable the device when the last user goes away. Right
>> now, the reference counting is broken for sources as we skip
>> the actions when we detect that the source is enabled.
>>
>> This patch fixes the problem by adding the refcounting for
>> software sources, even when they are enabled.
>>
>> Cc: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier at linaro.org>
>> Reported-by: Robert Walker <robert.walker at arm.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose at arm.com>
>> ---
>>  drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight.c | 13 +++++++++++--
>>  1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight.c b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight.c
>> index 34cd1ed..2da9e39 100644
>> --- a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight.c
>> +++ b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight.c
>> @@ -552,6 +552,7 @@ int coresight_enable(struct coresight_device *csdev)
>>         int cpu, ret = 0;
>>         struct coresight_device *sink;
>>         struct list_head *path;
>> +       enum coresight_dev_subtype_source subtype = csdev->subtype.source_subtype;
>
> Checkpatch.pl complains about a line over 80 characters.


Hmm, I think the name of the enum is unusually long. I could clean it up a little bit.
Also, it does look silly to split a simple variable assignment though.

What do you prefer ?

Suzuki



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