[PATCH v2] coresight: trbe: Move check for kernel page table isolation from EL0 to probe

Sudeep Holla sudeep.holla at arm.com
Thu Feb 3 11:01:59 PST 2022


Currently with the check present in the module initialisation, it shouts
on all the systems irrespective of presence of coresight trace buffer
extensions.

Similar to Arm SPE perf driver, move the check for kernel page table
isolation from  EL0 to the device probe stage instead of the module
initialisation so that it complains only on the systems that support TRBE.

Cc: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier at linaro.org>
Cc: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose at arm.com>
Cc: Mike Leach <mike.leach at linaro.org>
Cc: Leo Yan <leo.yan at linaro.org>
Cc: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual at arm.com>
Cc: coresight at lists.linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla at arm.com>
---
 drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-trbe.c | 11 ++++++-----
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

v1[1]->v2:
	- Added comment about trace capture being not possible with kernel
	  page table isolation
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220201122212.3009461-1-sudeep.holla@arm.com

diff --git a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-trbe.c b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-trbe.c
index 276862c07e32..3e37a63cb7d2 100644
--- a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-trbe.c
+++ b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-trbe.c
@@ -1423,6 +1423,12 @@ static int arm_trbe_device_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 	struct device *dev = &pdev->dev;
 	int ret;
 
+	/* Trace capture is not possible with kernel page table isolation */
+	if (arm64_kernel_unmapped_at_el0()) {
+		pr_err("TRBE wouldn't work if kernel gets unmapped at EL0\n");
+		return -EOPNOTSUPP;
+	}
+
 	drvdata = devm_kzalloc(dev, sizeof(*drvdata), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!drvdata)
 		return -ENOMEM;
@@ -1484,11 +1490,6 @@ static int __init arm_trbe_init(void)
 {
 	int ret;
 
-	if (arm64_kernel_unmapped_at_el0()) {
-		pr_err("TRBE wouldn't work if kernel gets unmapped at EL0\n");
-		return -EOPNOTSUPP;
-	}
-
 	ret = platform_driver_register(&arm_trbe_driver);
 	if (!ret)
 		return 0;
-- 
2.25.1




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