[PATCH v5 8/9] coresight-tmc: change tmc_drvdata spinlock's type to raw_spinlock_t

Yeoreum Yun yeoreum.yun at arm.com
Thu Mar 6 02:35:07 PST 2025


Hi, Suzuki

> Unfortunately, this still doesn't cover the current coresight next branch. I
> get build errors as below :
>
> "[PATCH] coresight-tmc: change tmc_drvdata spinlock's type to" has style
> problems, please review. This is because, we merged the coresight panic
> trace support in the coresight next, on 21st Feb.
>
>
> NOTE: If any of the errors are false positives, please report
>       them to the maintainer, see CHECKPATCH in MAINTAINERS.
>   CALL    scripts/checksyscalls.sh
>   CC [M]  drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-tmc-core.o
>   CC [M]  drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-tmc-etf.o
>   CC [M]  drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-tmc-etr.o
>   CC [M]  drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-catu.o
> In file included from ./include/linux/mmzone.h:8,
>                  from ./include/linux/gfp.h:7,
>                  from ./include/linux/slab.h:16,
>                  from ./include/linux/resource_ext.h:11,
>                  from ./include/linux/acpi.h:13,
>                  from drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-tmc-core.c:7:
> drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-tmc-core.c: In function
> ‘tmc_crashdata_open’:
> drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-tmc-core.c:361:20: error: passing
> argument 1 of ‘spinlock_check’ from incompatible pointer type
> [-Werror=incompatible-pointer-types]
>   361 |  spin_lock_irqsave(&drvdata->spinlock, flags);
>       |                    ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>       |                    |
>       |                    raw_spinlock_t * {aka struct raw_spinlock *}
> ./include/linux/spinlock.h:244:34: note: in definition of macro
> ‘raw_spin_lock_irqsave’
>   244 |   flags = _raw_spin_lock_irqsave(lock); \
>       |                                  ^~~~
> drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-tmc-core.c:361:2: note: in expansion
> of macro ‘spin_lock_irqsave’
>   361 |  spin_lock_irqsave(&drvdata->spinlock, flags);
>       |  ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> In file included from ./include/linux/mmzone.h:8,
>                  from ./include/linux/gfp.h:7,
>                  from ./include/linux/slab.h:16,
>                  from ./include/linux/resource_ext.h:11,
>                  from ./include/linux/acpi.h:13,
>                  from drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-tmc-core.c:7:
> ./include/linux/spinlock.h:324:67: note: expected ‘spinlock_t *’ {aka
> ‘struct spinlock *’} but argument is of type ‘raw_spinlock_t *’ {aka ‘struct
> raw_spinlock *’}
>   324 | static __always_inline raw_spinlock_t *spinlock_check(spinlock_t
> *lock)

Sorry! I'll rework again for this. thanks!




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