[PATCH 2/3] coresight: Fail to open with return stacks if they are unavailable
Mathieu Poirier
mathieu.poirier at linaro.org
Fri Dec 10 09:22:20 PST 2021
Hi James,
On Thu, Dec 09, 2021 at 11:13:55AM +0000, James Clark wrote:
>
>
> On 09/12/2021 11:00, Suzuki K Poulose wrote:
> > 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 ?
> >
> I started changing them all because I had trouble searching for bits by name but then
> I thought it would snowball into a bigger change so I undid it.
>
> I think I'll just go and do it now if it's an issue here.
I can apply this set right away and you send another patch to fix all hard coded
bitfields or you can send another revision with all 4 patches included in it
(bitfields fix plus these 3). Just let me know what you want to do. And next
time please add a cover letter.
Thanks,
Mathieu
>
> > Otherwise, looks good to me
> >
> > Suzuki
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