[PATCH 3/4] perf/arm_cspmu: Improve sub-module error reporting
Robin Murphy
robin.murphy at arm.com
Thu Jul 9 07:39:55 PDT 2026
When waiting for a sub-module to register, we return a bare
-EPROBE_DEFER that ends up showing the end user:
platform arm-cs-arch-pmu.1: deferred probe pending (no reason)
wherein it's not necessarily clear that they might need to take some
action to ensure the appropriate module is available to load. Let's use
dev_err_probe() here so we can show exactly what we're waiting for.
Similarly, in the case where something's gone horribly wrong with an
already-registered module, we can use dev_WARN() to standardise the
device/driver attribution rather than just open-coding "arm_cspmu".
Signed-off-by: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy at arm.com>
---
drivers/perf/arm_cspmu/arm_cspmu.c | 6 ++++--
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/perf/arm_cspmu/arm_cspmu.c b/drivers/perf/arm_cspmu/arm_cspmu.c
index 0570be74d11f..0b26a1588eba 100644
--- a/drivers/perf/arm_cspmu/arm_cspmu.c
+++ b/drivers/perf/arm_cspmu/arm_cspmu.c
@@ -438,13 +438,15 @@ static int arm_cspmu_init_impl_ops(struct arm_cspmu *cspmu)
if (ret)
module_put(match->module);
} else {
- WARN(1, "arm_cspmu failed to get module: %s\n",
+ dev_WARN(cspmu->dev, "Failed to get module: %s\n",
match->module_name);
ret = -EINVAL;
}
} else {
request_module_nowait(match->module_name);
- ret = -EPROBE_DEFER;
+ ret = dev_err_probe(cspmu->dev, -EPROBE_DEFER,
+ "Waiting for module %s to load\n",
+ match->module_name);
}
mutex_unlock(&arm_cspmu_lock);
--
2.54.0.dirty
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