[PATCH] coresight: tmc-etr: Don't enable ETR when it's not ready

Suzuki K Poulose suzuki.poulose at arm.com
Tue Jan 10 10:04:32 PST 2023


On 10/01/2023 17:48, Mike Leach wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, 10 Jan 2023 at 09:30, James Clark <james.clark at arm.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> On 09/01/2023 23:43, Yabin Cui wrote:
>>> Otherwise, it may cause error in AXI bus and result in a kernel panic.
>>
>> Hi Yabin,
>>
>> Thanks for the fix. Do you have a reproducer for this or some more info?
>> For example is it a regression or has it always been there? And on which
>> platform.
>>
>> Thanks
>> James
>>
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Yabin Cui <yabinc at google.com>
>>> ---
>>>   .../hwtracing/coresight/coresight-tmc-core.c   |  4 +++-
>>>   .../hwtracing/coresight/coresight-tmc-etr.c    | 18 +++++++++++++++---
>>>   drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-tmc.h    |  2 +-
>>>   3 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-tmc-core.c b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-tmc-core.c
>>> index 07abf28ad725..c106d142e632 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-tmc-core.c
>>> +++ b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-tmc-core.c
>>> @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ DEFINE_CORESIGHT_DEVLIST(etb_devs, "tmc_etb");
>>>   DEFINE_CORESIGHT_DEVLIST(etf_devs, "tmc_etf");
>>>   DEFINE_CORESIGHT_DEVLIST(etr_devs, "tmc_etr");
>>>
>>> -void tmc_wait_for_tmcready(struct tmc_drvdata *drvdata)
>>> +int tmc_wait_for_tmcready(struct tmc_drvdata *drvdata)
>>>   {
>>>        struct coresight_device *csdev = drvdata->csdev;
>>>        struct csdev_access *csa = &csdev->access;
>>> @@ -40,7 +40,9 @@ void tmc_wait_for_tmcready(struct tmc_drvdata *drvdata)
>>>        if (coresight_timeout(csa, TMC_STS, TMC_STS_TMCREADY_BIT, 1)) {
>>>                dev_err(&csdev->dev,
>>>                        "timeout while waiting for TMC to be Ready\n");
>>> +             return -EBUSY;
>>>        }
>>> +     return 0;
>>>   }
>>>
>>>   void tmc_flush_and_stop(struct tmc_drvdata *drvdata)
>>> diff --git a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-tmc-etr.c b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-tmc-etr.c
>>> index 867ad8bb9b0c..2da99dd41ed6 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-tmc-etr.c
>>> +++ b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-tmc-etr.c
>>> @@ -983,15 +983,21 @@ static void tmc_sync_etr_buf(struct tmc_drvdata *drvdata)
>>>        etr_buf->ops->sync(etr_buf, rrp, rwp);
>>>   }
>>>
>>> -static void __tmc_etr_enable_hw(struct tmc_drvdata *drvdata)
>>> +static int __tmc_etr_enable_hw(struct tmc_drvdata *drvdata)
>>>   {
>>>        u32 axictl, sts;
>>>        struct etr_buf *etr_buf = drvdata->etr_buf;
>>> +     int rc = 0;
>>>
>>>        CS_UNLOCK(drvdata->base);
>>>
>>>        /* Wait for TMCSReady bit to be set */
>>> -     tmc_wait_for_tmcready(drvdata);
>>> +     rc = tmc_wait_for_tmcready(drvdata);
>>> +     if (rc) {
>>> +             dev_err(&drvdata->csdev->dev, "not ready ETR isn't enabled\n");
>>> +             CS_LOCK(drvdata->base);
>>> +             return rc;
>>> +     }
>>>
>>>        writel_relaxed(etr_buf->size / 4, drvdata->base + TMC_RSZ);
>>>        writel_relaxed(TMC_MODE_CIRCULAR_BUFFER, drvdata->base + TMC_MODE);
>>> @@ -1032,6 +1038,7 @@ static void __tmc_etr_enable_hw(struct tmc_drvdata *drvdata)
>>>        tmc_enable_hw(drvdata);
>>>
>>>        CS_LOCK(drvdata->base);
>>> +     return rc;
>>>   }
>>>
>>>   static int tmc_etr_enable_hw(struct tmc_drvdata *drvdata,
>>> @@ -1060,7 +1067,12 @@ static int tmc_etr_enable_hw(struct tmc_drvdata *drvdata,
>>>        rc = coresight_claim_device(drvdata->csdev);
>>>        if (!rc) {
>>>                drvdata->etr_buf = etr_buf;
>>> -             __tmc_etr_enable_hw(drvdata);
>>> +             rc = __tmc_etr_enable_hw(drvdata);
>>> +             if (rc) {
>>> +                     drvdata->etr_buf = NULL;
>>> +                     coresight_disclaim_device(drvdata->csdev);
>>> +                     tmc_etr_disable_catu(drvdata);
>>> +             }
>>>        }
>>>
>>>        return rc;
>>> diff --git a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-tmc.h b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-tmc.h
>>> index 66959557cf39..01c0382a29c0 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-tmc.h
>>> +++ b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-tmc.h
>>> @@ -255,7 +255,7 @@ struct tmc_sg_table {
>>>   };
>>>
>>>   /* Generic functions */
>>> -void tmc_wait_for_tmcready(struct tmc_drvdata *drvdata);
>>> +int tmc_wait_for_tmcready(struct tmc_drvdata *drvdata);
>>>   void tmc_flush_and_stop(struct tmc_drvdata *drvdata);
>>>   void tmc_enable_hw(struct tmc_drvdata *drvdata);
>>>   void tmc_disable_hw(struct tmc_drvdata *drvdata);
> 
> There is no point in waiting for a timeout, and then carrying on even
> when it is exceeded. As such this patch seems reasonable.
> We should also apply the same principle to the ETF and ETB devices
> which use the same tmc_wait_for_tmcready() function.

+1

I am fine with pushing this change, as it is doing the right thing.

> 
> However - the concern is that this appears to be happening on starting
> the ETR - there should be no outstanding AXI operations that cause the
> system to not be ready - as we will either be using this the first
> time after reset, or we should have successfully stopped and flushed
> the ETR from the previous operation. This warrants further
> investigation - should we be extending the timeout - which is already
> at a rather generous 100uS, and do we also need to check the MemErr
> bit in the status register?

It would be good to dump the value of TMC_STATUS to see what is going
on.

> 
> As James says, we need details of when and how the problem occurs  -
> as far as I know it has not been seen on any systems we currently use
> (though could have been missed given the current code)

+1

Kind regards
Suzuki


> 
> Regards
> 
> Mike
> 
> 
> --
> Mike Leach
> Principal Engineer, ARM Ltd.
> Manchester Design Centre. UK




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