[PATCH v4 1/2] coresight: catu: Introduce refcount and spinlock for enabling/disabling

Jie Gan jie.gan at oss.qualcomm.com
Tue Apr 15 18:01:04 PDT 2025



On 4/16/2025 2:46 AM, Yabin Cui wrote:
> When tracing ETM data on multiple CPUs concurrently via the
> perf interface, the CATU device is shared across different CPU
> paths. This can lead to race conditions when multiple CPUs attempt
> to enable or disable the CATU device simultaneously.
> 
> To address these race conditions, this patch introduces the
> following changes:
> 
> 1. The enable and disable operations for the CATU device are not
>     reentrant. Therefore, a spinlock is added to ensure that only
>     one CPU can enable or disable a given CATU device at any point
>     in time.
> 
> 2. A reference counter is used to manage the enable/disable state
>     of the CATU device. The device is enabled when the first CPU
>     requires it and is only disabled when the last CPU finishes
>     using it. This ensures the device remains active as long as at
>     least one CPU needs it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Yabin Cui <yabinc at google.com>

Hi Yabin,

You missed the reviewed-by tag. James gave his tag in V3.

As well as another patchset.

Thanks,
Jie

> ---
>   drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-catu.c | 25 +++++++++++++-------
>   drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-catu.h |  1 +
>   2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-catu.c b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-catu.c
> index fa170c966bc3..3909b562b077 100644
> --- a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-catu.c
> +++ b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-catu.c
> @@ -458,12 +458,17 @@ static int catu_enable_hw(struct catu_drvdata *drvdata, enum cs_mode cs_mode,
>   static int catu_enable(struct coresight_device *csdev, enum cs_mode mode,
>   		       void *data)
>   {
> -	int rc;
> +	int rc = 0;
>   	struct catu_drvdata *catu_drvdata = csdev_to_catu_drvdata(csdev);
>   
> -	CS_UNLOCK(catu_drvdata->base);
> -	rc = catu_enable_hw(catu_drvdata, mode, data);
> -	CS_LOCK(catu_drvdata->base);
> +	guard(raw_spinlock_irqsave)(&catu_drvdata->spinlock);
> +	if (csdev->refcnt == 0) {
> +		CS_UNLOCK(catu_drvdata->base);
> +		rc = catu_enable_hw(catu_drvdata, mode, data);
> +		CS_LOCK(catu_drvdata->base);
> +	}
> +	if (!rc)
> +		csdev->refcnt++;
>   	return rc;
>   }
>   
> @@ -486,12 +491,15 @@ static int catu_disable_hw(struct catu_drvdata *drvdata)
>   
>   static int catu_disable(struct coresight_device *csdev, void *__unused)
>   {
> -	int rc;
> +	int rc = 0;
>   	struct catu_drvdata *catu_drvdata = csdev_to_catu_drvdata(csdev);
>   
> -	CS_UNLOCK(catu_drvdata->base);
> -	rc = catu_disable_hw(catu_drvdata);
> -	CS_LOCK(catu_drvdata->base);
> +	guard(raw_spinlock_irqsave)(&catu_drvdata->spinlock);
> +	if (--csdev->refcnt == 0) {
> +		CS_UNLOCK(catu_drvdata->base);
> +		rc = catu_disable_hw(catu_drvdata);
> +		CS_LOCK(catu_drvdata->base);
> +	}
>   	return rc;
>   }
>   
> @@ -550,6 +558,7 @@ static int __catu_probe(struct device *dev, struct resource *res)
>   	dev->platform_data = pdata;
>   
>   	drvdata->base = base;
> +	raw_spin_lock_init(&drvdata->spinlock);
>   	catu_desc.access = CSDEV_ACCESS_IOMEM(base);
>   	catu_desc.pdata = pdata;
>   	catu_desc.dev = dev;
> diff --git a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-catu.h b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-catu.h
> index 141feac1c14b..755776cd19c5 100644
> --- a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-catu.h
> +++ b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-catu.h
> @@ -65,6 +65,7 @@ struct catu_drvdata {
>   	void __iomem *base;
>   	struct coresight_device *csdev;
>   	int irq;
> +	raw_spinlock_t spinlock;
>   };
>   
>   #define CATU_REG32(name, offset)					\




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