[PATCH v5 09/15] coresight: trbe: Add infrastructure for Errata handling
Anshuman Khandual
anshuman.khandual at arm.com
Mon Oct 18 22:25:36 PDT 2021
On 10/15/21 4:01 AM, Suzuki K Poulose wrote:
> Add a minimal infrastructure to keep track of the errata
> affecting the given TRBE instance. Given that we have
> heterogeneous CPUs, we have to manage the list per-TRBE
> instance to be able to apply the work around as needed.
> Thus we will need to check if individual CPUs are affected
> by the erratum.
>
> We rely on the arm64 errata framework for the actual
> description and the discovery of a given erratum, to
> keep the Erratum work around at a central place and
> benefit from the code and the advertisement from the
> kernel. Though we could reuse the "this_cpu_has_cap()"
> to apply an erratum work around, it is a bit of a heavy
> operation, as it must go through the "erratum" detection
> check on the CPU every time it is called (e.g, scanning
> through a table of affected MIDRs). Since we need
> to do this check for every session, may be multiple
> times (depending on the wrok around), we could save
> the cycles by caching the affected errata per-CPU
> instance in the per-CPU struct trbe_cpudata.
>
> Since we are only interested in the errata affecting
> the TRBE driver, we only need to track a very few of them
> per-CPU. Thus we use a local mapping of the CPUCAP for the
> erratum to avoid bloating up a bitmap for trbe_cpudata.
>
> i.e, each arm64 TRBE erratum bit is assigned a "index"
> within the driver to track. Each trbe instance updates
> the list of affected erratum at probe time on the CPU.
> This makes sure that we can easily access the list of
> errata on a given TRBE instance without much overhead.
>
> Cc: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier at linaro.org>
> Cc: Mike Leach <mike.leach at linaro.org>
> Cc: Leo Yan <leo.yan at linaro.org>
> Cc: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual at arm.com>
> Reviewed-by: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier at linaro.org>
> Signed-off-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose at arm.com>
> ---
> Changes since v4:
> - Ensure the arm_trbe_probe_cpu() is called from non preemptible
> context for hotplugged CPUs
This (both renaming and non preemptible context) makes sense.
Reviewed-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual at arm.com>
A small nit though.
Should the array sentinel value '-1' be bit formalized with a
macro and check like this != instead.
if (WARN_ON_ONCE(cap != TRBE_ERRATA_SENTINEL))
> Changes since v2:
> - Automatically define TRBE_ERRATA_MAX
> - Add some basic sanity check to make sure the new entries
> are added in order.
> - Describe the design choice of caching CPU local errata
> in trbe_cpudata instead of using this_cpu_has_cap()
> Changes since v1:
> - Flip the order of args for trbe_has_erratum()
> - Move erratum detection further down in the sequence
> ---
> drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-trbe.c | 71 +++++++++++++++++++-
> 1 file changed, 68 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-trbe.c b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-trbe.c
> index f8c04c428780..314e5e7374c7 100644
> --- a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-trbe.c
> +++ b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-trbe.c
> @@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
> #define pr_fmt(fmt) DRVNAME ": " fmt
>
> #include <asm/barrier.h>
> +
> #include "coresight-self-hosted-trace.h"
> #include "coresight-trbe.h"
>
> @@ -67,14 +68,43 @@ struct trbe_buf {
> struct trbe_cpudata *cpudata;
> };
>
> +/*
> + * TRBE erratum list
> + *
> + * The errata are defined in arm64 generic cpu_errata framework.
> + * Since the errata work arounds could be applied individually
> + * to the affected CPUs inside the TRBE driver, we need to know if
> + * a given CPU is affected by the erratum. Unlike the other erratum
> + * work arounds, TRBE driver needs to check multiple times during
> + * a trace session. Thus we need a quicker access to per-CPU
> + * errata and not issue costly this_cpu_has_cap() everytime.
> + * We keep a set of the affected errata in trbe_cpudata, per TRBE.
> + *
> + * We rely on the corresponding cpucaps to be defined for a given
> + * TRBE erratum. We map the given cpucap into a TRBE internal number
> + * to make the tracking of the errata lean.
> + *
> + * This helps in :
> + * - Not duplicating the detection logic
> + * - Streamlined detection of erratum across the system
> + */
> +
> +static int trbe_errata_cpucaps[] = {
> + -1, /* Sentinel, must be the last entry */
> +};
> +
> +/* The total number of listed errata in trbe_errata_cpucaps */
> +#define TRBE_ERRATA_MAX (ARRAY_SIZE(trbe_errata_cpucaps) - 1)
> +
> /*
> * struct trbe_cpudata: TRBE instance specific data
> * @trbe_flag - TRBE dirty/access flag support
> * @trbe_hw_align - Actual TRBE alignment required for TRBPTR_EL1.
> - * @trbe_align - Software alignment used for the TRBPTR_EL1,
> + * @trbe_align - Software alignment used for the TRBPTR_EL1
> * @cpu - CPU this TRBE belongs to.
> * @mode - Mode of current operation. (perf/disabled)
> * @drvdata - TRBE specific drvdata
> + * @errata - Bit map for the errata on this TRBE.
> */
> struct trbe_cpudata {
> bool trbe_flag;
> @@ -84,6 +114,7 @@ struct trbe_cpudata {
> enum cs_mode mode;
> struct trbe_buf *buf;
> struct trbe_drvdata *drvdata;
> + DECLARE_BITMAP(errata, TRBE_ERRATA_MAX);
> };
>
> struct trbe_drvdata {
> @@ -96,6 +127,25 @@ struct trbe_drvdata {
> struct platform_device *pdev;
> };
>
> +static void trbe_check_errata(struct trbe_cpudata *cpudata)
> +{
> + int i;
> +
> + for (i = 0; i < TRBE_ERRATA_MAX; i++) {
> + int cap = trbe_errata_cpucaps[i];
> +
> + if (WARN_ON_ONCE(cap < 0))
> + return;
> + if (this_cpu_has_cap(cap))
> + set_bit(i, cpudata->errata);
> + }
> +}
> +
> +static inline bool trbe_has_erratum(struct trbe_cpudata *cpudata, int i)
> +{
> + return (i < TRBE_ERRATA_MAX) && test_bit(i, cpudata->errata);
> +}
> +
> static int trbe_alloc_node(struct perf_event *event)
> {
> if (event->cpu == -1)
> @@ -952,6 +1002,9 @@ static void arm_trbe_register_coresight_cpu(struct trbe_drvdata *drvdata, int cp
> cpumask_clear_cpu(cpu, &drvdata->supported_cpus);
> }
>
> +/*
> + * Must be called with preemption disabled, for trbe_check_errata().
> + */
> static void arm_trbe_probe_cpu(void *info)
> {
> struct trbe_drvdata *drvdata = info;
> @@ -979,6 +1032,12 @@ static void arm_trbe_probe_cpu(void *info)
> goto cpu_clear;
> }
>
> + /*
> + * Run the TRBE erratum checks, now that we know
> + * this instance is about to be registered.
> + */
> + trbe_check_errata(cpudata);
> +
> cpudata->trbe_align = cpudata->trbe_hw_align;
> cpudata->trbe_flag = get_trbe_flag_update(trbidr);
> cpudata->cpu = cpu;
> @@ -1032,18 +1091,24 @@ static int arm_trbe_remove_coresight(struct trbe_drvdata *drvdata)
> return 0;
> }
>
> +static void arm_trbe_probe_hotplugged_cpu(struct trbe_drvdata *drvdata)
> +{
> + preempt_disable();
> + arm_trbe_probe_cpu(drvdata);
> + preempt_enable();
> +}
> +
> static int arm_trbe_cpu_startup(unsigned int cpu, struct hlist_node *node)
> {
> struct trbe_drvdata *drvdata = hlist_entry_safe(node, struct trbe_drvdata, hotplug_node);
>
> if (cpumask_test_cpu(cpu, &drvdata->supported_cpus)) {
> -
> /*
> * If this CPU was not probed for TRBE,
> * initialize it now.
> */
> if (!coresight_get_percpu_sink(cpu)) {
> - arm_trbe_probe_cpu(drvdata);
> + arm_trbe_probe_hotplugged_cpu(drvdata);
> if (cpumask_test_cpu(cpu, &drvdata->supported_cpus))
> arm_trbe_register_coresight_cpu(drvdata, cpu);
> if (cpumask_test_cpu(cpu, &drvdata->supported_cpus))
>
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