[RFC PATCH v2] coresight: etm4x: Modify core-commit of cpu to avoid the overflow of HiSilicon ETM

[Mike Leach]

Hi,

On Wed, 2 Sep 2020 at 11:36, Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose at arm.com> wrote:
>
> On 08/27/2020 09:44 PM, Mathieu Poirier wrote:
> > Hi Liu,
> >
> > On Wed, Aug 19, 2020 at 04:06:37PM +0800, Qi Liu wrote:
> >> When too much trace information is generated on-chip, the ETM will
> >> overflow, and cause data loss. This is a common phenomenon on ETM
> >> devices.
> >>
> >> But sometimes we do not want to lose performance trace data, so we
> >> suppress the speed of instructions sent from CPU core to ETM to
> >> avoid the overflow of ETM.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Qi Liu <liuqi115 at huawei.com>
> >> ---
> >>
> >> Changes since v1:
> >> - ETM on HiSilicon Hip09 platform supports backpressure, so does
> >> not need to modify core commit.
> >>
> >>   drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm4x.c | 43 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >>   1 file changed, 43 insertions(+)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm4x.c b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm4x.c
> >> index 7797a57..7641f89 100644
> >> --- a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm4x.c
> >> +++ b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm4x.c
> >> @@ -43,6 +43,10 @@ MODULE_PARM_DESC(boot_enable, "Enable tracing on boot");
> >>   #define PARAM_PM_SAVE_NEVER          1 /* never save any state */
> >>   #define PARAM_PM_SAVE_SELF_HOSTED 2 /* save self-hosted state only */
> >>
> >> +#define CORE_COMMIT_CLEAR   0x3000
> >> +#define CORE_COMMIT_SHIFT   12
> >> +#define HISI_ETM_AMBA_ID_V1 0x000b6d01
> >> +
> >>   static int pm_save_enable = PARAM_PM_SAVE_FIRMWARE;
> >>   module_param(pm_save_enable, int, 0444);
> >>   MODULE_PARM_DESC(pm_save_enable,
> >> @@ -104,11 +108,40 @@ struct etm4_enable_arg {
> >>      int rc;
> >>   };
> >>
> >> +static void etm4_cpu_actlr1_cfg(void *info)
> >> +{
> >> +    struct etm4_enable_arg *arg = (struct etm4_enable_arg *)info;
> >> +    u64 val;
> >> +
> >> +    asm volatile("mrs %0,s3_1_c15_c2_5" : "=r"(val));
>
>
> The ID register (S3_1_C15_c2_5) falls into implementation defined space.
> See Arm ARM DDI 0487F.a, section "D12.3.2  Reserved encodings for
> IMPLEMENTATION DEFINED registers".
>
> So, please stop calling this "etm4_cpu_actlr1_cfg". Since,
> 1) actlr1 is not an architected name for the said encoding
> 2) The id register could mean something else on another CPU.
>
> Rather this should indicate platform/CPU specific. e.g,
>
> etm4_cpu_hisilicon_config_core_commit()
>
>
> >> +    val &= ~CORE_COMMIT_CLEAR;
> >> +    val |= arg->rc << CORE_COMMIT_SHIFT;
> >> +    asm volatile("msr s3_1_c15_c2_5,%0" : : "r"(val));
> >> +}
> >> +
> >> +static void etm4_config_core_commit(int cpu, int val)
> >> +{
> >> +    struct etm4_enable_arg arg = {0};
> >> +
> >> +    arg.rc = val;
> >> +    smp_call_function_single(cpu, etm4_cpu_actlr1_cfg, &arg, 1);
> >
> > Function etm4_enable/disable_hw() are already running on the CPU they are
> > supposed to so no need to call smp_call_function_single().
> >
> >> +}
> >> +
> >>   static int etm4_enable_hw(struct etmv4_drvdata *drvdata)
> >>   {
> >>      int i, rc;
> >> +    struct amba_device *adev;
> >>      struct etmv4_config *config = &drvdata->config;
> >>      struct device *etm_dev = &drvdata->csdev->dev;
> >> +    struct device *dev = drvdata->csdev->dev.parent;
> >> +
> >> +    adev = container_of(dev, struct amba_device, dev);
> >> +    /*
> >> +     * If ETM device is HiSilicon ETM device, reduce the
> >> +     * core-commit to avoid ETM overflow.
> >> +     */
> >> +    if (adev->periphid == HISI_ETM_AMBA_ID_V1)
>
> Please could you move this check to the function above ?
> Ideally, it would be good to have something like :
>
>         etm4_config_impdef_features();
>
> And :
>
>         etm4_config_impdef_features(struct etm4_drvdata *drvdata)
>         {
>                 etm4_cpu_hisilicon_config_core_commit(drvdata);
>         }
>

In addition to the above, Is it worth having this implementation
defined code gated in the kernel configuration - like we do for core
features sometimes?
i,.e.
CONFIG_ETM4X_IMPDEF_FEATURE (controls overall impdef support in the driver)
and
CONFIG_ETM4X_IMPDEF_HISILICON (depends on CONFIG_ETM4X_IMPDEF_FEATURE )

This way we keep non ETM architectural code off platforms that cannot
use it / test it.


> >
> > Do you have any documentation on this back pressure feature?  I doubt this is
> > specific to Hip09 platform and as such would prefer to have a more generic
> > approach that works on any platform that supports it.
> >
> > Anyone on the CS mailing list that knows what this is about?
>
> I believe this is hisilicon specific. May be same across their CPUs, may
> be a specific one. There is no architectural guarantee.
>

This could be an implementation of the feature provided by the
TRCSTALLCTRL register - which allows PE to be stalled in response to
the ETM fifos approaching overflow.
At present we do nothing with this feature as we have yet to see a
target with it implemented, but if this is the case then it is an
ETMv4 architectural feature that could be added into the main driver
code,  with use/access gated by the relevent TRCIDR bit.

Regards

Mike


>
> Cheers
> Suzuki



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Mike Leach
Principal Engineer, ARM Ltd.
Manchester Design Centre. UK