[PATCH] coresight: etm4x: Do not access TRCIDR1 for identification
Suzuki K Poulose
suzuki.poulose at arm.com
Tue Mar 21 03:19:01 PDT 2023
On 21/03/2023 10:17, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
>
>
> On 3/17/23 17:27, Suzuki K Poulose wrote:
>> CoreSight ETM4x architecture clearly provides ways to identify a device
>> via registers in the "Management" class, TRCDEVARCH and TRCDEVTYPE. These
>> registers can be accessed without the Trace domain being powered on.
>> We additionally added TRCIDR1 as fallback in order to cover for any
>> ETMs that may not have implemented TRCDEVARCH. So far, nobody has
>> reported hitting a WARNING we placed to catch such systems.
>>
>> Also, more importantly it is problematic to access TRCIDR1, which is a "Trace"
>> register via MMIO access, without clearing the OSLK. But we cannot
>> mess with the OSLK until we know for sure that this is an ETMv4 device.
>> Thus, this kind of creates a chicken and egg problem unnecessarily for systems
>> "which are compliant" to the ETMv4 architecture.
>>
>> Let us remove the TRCIDR1 fall back check and rely only on TRCDEVARCH.
>>
>> Reported-by: Steve Clevenger <scclevenger at os.amperecomputing.com>
>> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/143540e5623d4c7393d24833f2b80600d8d745d2.1677881753.git.scclevenger@os.amperecomputing.com/
>> Cc: Mike Leach <mike.leach at linaro.org>
>> Cc: James Clark <james.clark at arm.com>
>> Fixes: 8b94db1edaee ("coresight: etm4x: Use TRCDEVARCH for component discovery")
>> Signed-off-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose at arm.com>
>> ---
>> .../hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm4x-core.c | 18 +++++-------------
>> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm4x-core.c b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm4x-core.c
>> index 104333c2c8a3..c1b72d892d7d 100644
>> --- a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm4x-core.c
>> +++ b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm4x-core.c
>> @@ -1070,25 +1070,17 @@ static bool etm4_init_iomem_access(struct etmv4_drvdata *drvdata,
>> struct csdev_access *csa)
>> {
>> u32 devarch = readl_relaxed(drvdata->base + TRCDEVARCH);
>> - u32 idr1 = readl_relaxed(drvdata->base + TRCIDR1);
>>
>> /*
>> * All ETMs must implement TRCDEVARCH to indicate that
>> - * the component is an ETMv4. To support any broken
>> - * implementations we fall back to TRCIDR1 check, which
>> - * is not really reliable.
>> + * the component is an ETMv4
>> */
>> - if ((devarch & ETM_DEVARCH_ID_MASK) == ETM_DEVARCH_ETMv4x_ARCH) {
>> - drvdata->arch = etm_devarch_to_arch(devarch);
>> - } else {
>> - pr_warn("CPU%d: ETM4x incompatible TRCDEVARCH: %x, falling back to TRCIDR1\n",
>> - smp_processor_id(), devarch);
>> -
>> - if (ETM_TRCIDR1_ARCH_MAJOR(idr1) != ETM_TRCIDR1_ARCH_ETMv4)
>> - return false;
>> - drvdata->arch = etm_trcidr_to_arch(idr1);
>
> etm_trcidr_to_arch() does not seem to be used else where, should be dropped ?
Good point, will drop it. Thanks for the review.
Suzuki
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