[PATCH 06/19] coresight: trbe: Refactor syndrome decoding

Suzuki K Poulose suzuki.poulose at arm.com
Tue Dec 2 03:06:48 PST 2025


Hi Leo

A couple of minor nits below. Otherwise looks like a nice cleanup


On 01/12/2025 11:21, Leo Yan wrote:
> It gives priority to TRBSR_EL1.EA (external abort); an external abort
> will immediately bail out and return an error.
> 
> Next, the syndrome decoding is refactored based on two levels of
> information: the EC (Event Class) bits and the BSC (Trace Buffer Status
> Code) bits.
> 
> If TRBSR_EL1.EC==0b000000, the driver continues parsing TRBSR_EL1.BSC to
> identify the specific trace buffer event.  Otherwise, any non-zero
> TRBSR_EL1.EC is treated as an error.
> 
> For error cases, the driver prints an error string and dumps registers
> for debugging.

minor nit: Please avoid describing the code, which cod does well.
Briefly mention what you are doing, giving any additional contexts
that may not be evident from the code.

e.g:

"Add support for decoding the syndrome for TRBE, providing a verbose
description of the code for Fatal/unhandled events.
While at it add the new definitions from the latest Arm ARM for
EC and BSC"




> 
> No additional checks are required for wrap mode beyond verifying the
> TRBSR_EL1.WRAP bit, even on units with overwrite errata, as this bit


> reliably indicates a buffer wrap.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan at arm.com>
> ---
>   drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-trbe.c | 60 +++++++++++++++++++++-------
>   drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-trbe.h |  8 ++--
>   2 files changed, 51 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-trbe.c b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-trbe.c
> index 9e565122816949b37b8ff5e4ba04cfbc317c6f25..28e2bfa68074f19ccaa4a737d00af577aea818fe 100644
> --- a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-trbe.c
> +++ b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-trbe.c
> @@ -643,29 +643,61 @@ static void trbe_enable_hw(struct trbe_buf *buf)
>   static enum trbe_fault_action trbe_get_fault_act(struct perf_output_handle *handle,
>   						 u64 trbsr)
>   {
> +	const char *err_str;
>   	int ec = get_trbe_ec(trbsr);
>   	int bsc = get_trbe_bsc(trbsr);
> -	struct trbe_buf *buf = etm_perf_sink_config(handle);
> -	struct trbe_cpudata *cpudata = buf->cpudata;
>   
>   	WARN_ON(is_trbe_running(trbsr));
> -	if (is_trbe_trg(trbsr) || is_trbe_abort(trbsr))
> -		return TRBE_FAULT_ACT_FATAL;
>   
> -	if ((ec == TRBE_EC_STAGE1_ABORT) || (ec == TRBE_EC_STAGE2_ABORT))
> -		return TRBE_FAULT_ACT_FATAL;
> +	if (is_trbe_abort(trbsr)) {
> +		err_str = "External abort";
> +		goto out_fatal;
> +	}
>   
> -	/*
> -	 * If the trbe is affected by TRBE_WORKAROUND_OVERWRITE_FILL_MODE,
> -	 * it might write data after a WRAP event in the fill mode.
> -	 * Thus the check TRBPTR == TRBBASER will not be honored.
> -	 */
> -	if ((is_trbe_wrap(trbsr) && (ec == TRBE_EC_OTHERS) && (bsc == TRBE_BSC_FILLED)) &&
> -	    (trbe_may_overwrite_in_fill_mode(cpudata) ||
> -	     get_trbe_write_pointer() == get_trbe_base_pointer()))
> +	switch (ec) {
> +	case TRBE_EC_OTHERS:
> +		break;
> +	case TRBE_EC_BUF_MGMT_IMPL:
> +		err_str = "Unexpected implemented management";

minor nit: "Unexpected IMPDEF buffer management event"


Suzuki

> +		goto out_fatal;
> +	case TRBE_EC_GP_CHECK_FAULT:
> +		err_str = "Granule Protection Check fault";
> +		goto out_fatal;
> +	case TRBE_EC_STAGE1_ABORT:
> +		err_str = "Stage 1 data abort";
> +		goto out_fatal;
> +	case TRBE_EC_STAGE2_ABORT:
> +		err_str = "Stage 2 data abort";
> +		goto out_fatal;
> +	default:
> +		err_str = "Unknown error code";
> +		goto out_fatal;
> +	}
> +
> +	switch (bsc) {
> +	case TRBE_BSC_NOT_STOPPED:
> +		break;
> +	case TRBE_BSC_FILLED:
> +		break;
> +	case TRBE_BSC_TRIGGERED:
> +		err_str = "Unexpected trigger status";
> +		goto out_fatal;
> +	default:
> +		err_str = "Unexpected buffer status code";
> +		goto out_fatal;
> +	}
> +
> +	if (is_trbe_wrap(trbsr))
>   		return TRBE_FAULT_ACT_WRAP;
>   
>   	return TRBE_FAULT_ACT_SPURIOUS;
> +
> +out_fatal:
> +	pr_err_ratelimited("%s on CPU %d [TRBSR=0x%016llx, TRBPTR=0x%016llx, TRBLIMITR=0x%016llx]\n",
> +			   err_str, smp_processor_id(), trbsr,
> +			   read_sysreg_s(SYS_TRBPTR_EL1),
> +			   read_sysreg_s(SYS_TRBLIMITR_EL1));
> +	return TRBE_FAULT_ACT_FATAL;
>   }
>   
>   static unsigned long trbe_get_trace_size(struct perf_output_handle *handle,
> diff --git a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-trbe.h b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-trbe.h
> index 45202c48accec7c86ba56130e2737bc2d1830fae..d7f7cd763c0c7139cf322b7336ee563073e3bea0 100644
> --- a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-trbe.h
> +++ b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-trbe.h
> @@ -35,9 +35,11 @@ static inline bool is_trbe_enabled(void)
>   	return trblimitr & TRBLIMITR_EL1_E;
>   }
>   
> -#define TRBE_EC_OTHERS		0
> -#define TRBE_EC_STAGE1_ABORT	36
> -#define TRBE_EC_STAGE2_ABORT	37
> +#define TRBE_EC_OTHERS			0x0
> +#define TRBE_EC_GP_CHECK_FAULT		0X1e
> +#define TRBE_EC_BUF_MGMT_IMPL		0x1f
> +#define TRBE_EC_STAGE1_ABORT		0x24
> +#define TRBE_EC_STAGE2_ABORT		0x25
>   
>   static inline int get_trbe_ec(u64 trbsr)
>   {
> 




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