[PATCH v2 12/17] coresight: trbe: Add a helper to fetch cpudata from perf handle
Suzuki K Poulose
suzuki.poulose at arm.com
Thu Oct 7 02:18:42 PDT 2021
On 06/10/2021 18:15, Mathieu Poirier wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 05, 2021 at 11:35:13PM +0100, Suzuki K Poulose wrote:
>> Hi Mathieu
>>
>> On 04/10/2021 18:42, Mathieu Poirier wrote:
>>> On Tue, Sep 21, 2021 at 02:41:16PM +0100, Suzuki K Poulose wrote:
>>>> Add a helper to get the CPU specific data for TRBE instance, from
>>>> a given perf handle. This also adds extra checks to make sure that
>>>> the event associated with the handle is "bound" to the CPU and is
>>>> active on the TRBE.
>>>>
>>>> Cc: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual at arm.com>
>>>> Cc: Mike Leach <mike.leach at linaro.org>
>>>> Cc: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier at linaro.org>
>>>> Cc: Leo Yan <leo.yan at linaro.org>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose at arm.com>
>>>> ---
>>>> drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-trbe.c | 12 ++++++++++--
>>>> 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-trbe.c b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-trbe.c
>>>> index 983dd5039e52..797d978f9fa7 100644
>>>> --- a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-trbe.c
>>>> +++ b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-trbe.c
>>>> @@ -268,6 +268,15 @@ static unsigned long trbe_snapshot_offset(struct perf_output_handle *handle)
>>>> return buf->nr_pages * PAGE_SIZE;
>>>> }
>>>> +static inline struct trbe_cpudata *
>>>> +trbe_handle_to_cpudata(struct perf_output_handle *handle)
>>>> +{
>>>> + struct trbe_buf *buf = etm_perf_sink_config(handle);
>>>> +
>>>> + BUG_ON(!buf || !buf->cpudata);
>>>> + return buf->cpudata;
>>>> +}
>>>> +
>>>> /*
>>>> * TRBE Limit Calculation
>>>> *
>>>> @@ -533,8 +542,7 @@ static enum trbe_fault_action trbe_get_fault_act(struct perf_output_handle *hand
>>>> {
>>>> int ec = get_trbe_ec(trbsr);
>>>> int bsc = get_trbe_bsc(trbsr);
>>>> - struct trbe_buf *buf = etm_perf_sink_config(handle);
>>>> - struct trbe_cpudata *cpudata = buf->cpudata;
>>>> + struct trbe_cpudata *cpudata = trbe_handle_to_cpudata(handle);
>>>
>>> There is two other places where this pattern is present: is_perf_trbe() and
>>> __trbe_normal_offset().
>>
>> I skipped them, as they have to get access to the "trbe_buf" anyways.
>> So the step by step, made sense. But I could replace them too to make it
>> transparent.
>>
>> What do you think ?
>
> Humm... I don't think there is a right way or a wrong way here. If we move
> forward with this patchset we have two ways of getting to buf->cpudata. One
> using trbe_handle_to_cpudata() and another one as laid out in is_perf_trbe() and
> __trbe_normal_offset(), each with an equal number of occurences (2 for each).
>
> I am usually not fond of small functions like trbe_handle_to_cpudata() and to me
> keeping the current heuristic in trbe_get_fault_act() would have been just fine.
There is another user introduced in the work around patch. But, yes, I
agree, we could open code it, rather than having it inconsistent across
the driver.
> I agree with the argument that trbe_handle_to_cpudata() provides more checks but
> is it really worth it if they aren't done everywhere?
>
> In short I would get rid of trbe_handle_to_cpudata() entirely and live without
> the extra checks... But I'm not strongly opinionated on this either.
Ok, I will remove this then. Thanks for the feedback.
Suzuki
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