[PATCH v2] coresight: trbe: Move check for kernel page table isolation from EL0 to probe
Anshuman Khandual
anshuman.khandual at arm.com
Thu Feb 3 18:50:23 PST 2022
On 2/4/22 12:31 AM, Sudeep Holla wrote:
> 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;
>
Reviewed-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual at arm.com>
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