[PATCH 2/2] coresight: trbe: Allocate platform data per device

Suzuki K Poulose suzuki.poulose at arm.com
Thu Aug 17 03:01:01 PDT 2023


On 17/08/2023 10:24, James Clark wrote:
> 
> 
> On 17/08/2023 07:37, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
>> Hi Suzuki,
>>
>> Seems like this patch is going to conflict with the below proposed change
>>
>> https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230817055405.249630-4-anshuman.khandual@arm.com/
>>
>> Please let me know how should we resolve this conflict.
> 
> We could merge them both, with the fixes: one first, just to acknowledge
> that there was a problem. But I suppose your one will have to be rebased
> on top.
> 
>>
>> On 8/16/23 19:40, Suzuki K Poulose wrote:
>>> Coresight TRBE driver shares a single platform data (which is empty btw).
>>> However, with the commit 4e8fe7e5c3a5
>>> ("coresight: Store pointers to connections rather than an array of them")
>>> the coresight core would free up the pdata, resulting in multiple attempts
>>> to free the same pdata for TRBE instances. Fix this by allocating a pdata per
>>> coresight_device.
>>>
>>> Fixes: 3fbf7f011f24 ("coresight: sink: Add TRBE driver")
>>
>> The above mentioned commit i.e 4e8fe7e5c3a5 seems to be a more recent one which
>> has triggered this problem. But would the problem be still there without that ?
>> Else 'Fixes:' tag would need changing.
>>
> 
> Yes I think the fixes tag should point to 4e8fe7e5c3a5.

Agreed, I will change the fixes tag and push this.

Suzuki





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