[PATCH 2/3] coresight: Fail to open with return stacks if they are unavailable
Suzuki K Poulose
suzuki.poulose at arm.com
Thu Dec 9 03:00:40 PST 2021
On 08/12/2021 16:09, James Clark wrote:
> Maintain consistency with the other options by failing to open when they
> aren't supported. For example ETM_OPT_TS, ETM_OPT_CTXTID2 and the newly
> added ETM_OPT_BRANCH_BROADCAST all return with -EINVAL if they are
> requested but not supported by hardware.
>
> The consequence of not doing this is that the user may not be
> aware that they are not enabling the feature as it is silently disabled.
>
> Signed-off-by: James Clark <james.clark at arm.com>
> ---
> drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm4x-core.c | 13 +++++++++----
> 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm4x-core.c b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm4x-core.c
> index d2bafb50c66a..0a9bb943a5e5 100644
> --- a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm4x-core.c
> +++ b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm4x-core.c
> @@ -674,10 +674,15 @@ static int etm4_parse_event_config(struct coresight_device *csdev,
> }
>
> /* return stack - enable if selected and supported */
> - if ((attr->config & BIT(ETM_OPT_RETSTK)) && drvdata->retstack)
> - /* bit[12], Return stack enable bit */
> - config->cfg |= BIT(12);
> -
> + if (attr->config & BIT(ETM_OPT_RETSTK)) {
> + if (!drvdata->retstack) {
> + ret = -EINVAL;
> + goto out;
> + } else {
> + /* bit[12], Return stack enable bit */
> + config->cfg |= BIT(12);
> + }
nit: While at this, please could you change the hard coded value
to ETM4_CFG_BIT_RETSTK ?
Otherwise, looks good to me
Suzuki
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