[PATCH 1/3] coresight: Add config flag to enable branch broadcast

James Clark james.clark at arm.com
Wed Dec 8 08:09:05 PST 2021


When enabled, all taken branch addresses are output, even if the branch
was because of a direct branch instruction. This enables reconstruction
of the program flow without having access to the memory image of the
code being executed.

Use bit 8 for the config option which would be the correct bit for
programming ETMv3. Although branch broadcast can't be enabled on ETMv3
because it's not in the define ETM3X_SUPPORTED_OPTIONS, using the
correct bit might help prevent future collisions or allow it to be
enabled if needed.

Signed-off-by: James Clark <james.clark at arm.com>
---
 drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm-perf.c   | 2 ++
 drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm4x-core.c | 9 +++++++++
 include/linux/coresight-pmu.h                      | 2 ++
 3 files changed, 13 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm-perf.c b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm-perf.c
index c039b6ae206f..43bbd5dc3d3b 100644
--- a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm-perf.c
+++ b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm-perf.c
@@ -52,6 +52,7 @@ static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct coresight_device *, csdev_src);
  * The PMU formats were orignally for ETMv3.5/PTM's ETMCR 'config';
  * now take them as general formats and apply on all ETMs.
  */
+PMU_FORMAT_ATTR(branch_broadcast, "config:"__stringify(ETM_OPT_BRANCH_BROADCAST));
 PMU_FORMAT_ATTR(cycacc,		"config:" __stringify(ETM_OPT_CYCACC));
 /* contextid1 enables tracing CONTEXTIDR_EL1 for ETMv4 */
 PMU_FORMAT_ATTR(contextid1,	"config:" __stringify(ETM_OPT_CTXTID));
@@ -97,6 +98,7 @@ static struct attribute *etm_config_formats_attr[] = {
 	&format_attr_sinkid.attr,
 	&format_attr_preset.attr,
 	&format_attr_configid.attr,
+	&format_attr_branch_broadcast.attr,
 	NULL,
 };
 
diff --git a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm4x-core.c b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm4x-core.c
index bf18128cf5de..d2bafb50c66a 100644
--- a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm4x-core.c
+++ b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm4x-core.c
@@ -692,6 +692,15 @@ static int etm4_parse_event_config(struct coresight_device *csdev,
 		ret = cscfg_csdev_enable_active_config(csdev, cfg_hash, preset);
 	}
 
+	/* branch broadcast - enable if selected and supported */
+	if (attr->config & BIT(ETM_OPT_BRANCH_BROADCAST)) {
+		if (!drvdata->trcbb) {
+			ret = -EINVAL;
+			goto out;
+		} else
+			config->cfg |= BIT(ETM4_CFG_BIT_BB);
+	}
+
 out:
 	return ret;
 }
diff --git a/include/linux/coresight-pmu.h b/include/linux/coresight-pmu.h
index 4ac5c081af93..6c2fd6cc5a98 100644
--- a/include/linux/coresight-pmu.h
+++ b/include/linux/coresight-pmu.h
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
  * ETMv3.5/PTM doesn't define ETMCR config bits with prefix "ETM3_" and
  * directly use below macros as config bits.
  */
+#define ETM_OPT_BRANCH_BROADCAST 8
 #define ETM_OPT_CYCACC		12
 #define ETM_OPT_CTXTID		14
 #define ETM_OPT_CTXTID2		15
@@ -25,6 +26,7 @@
 #define ETM_OPT_RETSTK		29
 
 /* ETMv4 CONFIGR programming bits for the ETM OPTs */
+#define ETM4_CFG_BIT_BB         3
 #define ETM4_CFG_BIT_CYCACC	4
 #define ETM4_CFG_BIT_CTXTID	6
 #define ETM4_CFG_BIT_VMID	7
-- 
2.28.0




More information about the linux-arm-kernel mailing list