[PATCH v3 00/10] coresight: TRBE and Self-Hosted trace fixes
Suzuki K Poulose
suzuki.poulose at arm.com
Tue Sep 14 03:26:31 PDT 2021
This series fixes the following issues with the TRBE and Self-Hosted
trace for CoreSight.
The Self-hosted trace filter control registers are now save-restored
across CPU PM event. And more importantly the Trace Filtering is now
used to control per ETM session (rather than allowing the trace
throughout the life time of the system). i.e, ETM configuration of
the given run is used to enforce trace filtering (TRFCR) along with the
Trace Exclusion controls in TRCVICTLR.
For the TRBE, we were using the TRUNCATED flag in the AUX buffer on
every IRQ to indicate that we may have lost a few bytes of trace. But
this causes the event to be disabled until the userspace re-enables
it back, even when there is space left in the ring buffer. To make
things worse, we were restarting the AUX handle, which would soon
be disabled, potentially creating 0 sized records (without truncation),
which the perf tool tends to ignore. This might cause the event to be
disabled permanently. Also, sometimes we leave the buffer TRUNCATED,
but delay the closing of the handle to event schedule out, which could
cause significant black out in the trace capture. This was reported
by Tamas Zsoldos.
This series removes the use of TRUNCATED flag for every IRQ. Instead,
uses the COLLISION flag to indicate that there was a WRAP event in the
trace collection. A patch to report the COLLISIONs has been queued for
the perf tool. The TRUNCATED is only used if we really run out of space
in the buffer. And also we make sure the "handle" is closed immediately
on TRUNCATED case, which triggers the userspace to take action. The core
perf layer has been hardened to handle this case where a "handle" is
closed out.
Finally, we make sure that the CPU trace is prohibited, when the TRBE
is left disabled. The ETE/ETM driver will program the Trace Filtering
appropriately since we do this dynamically now with the first half
of the series.
Applies on coresigh/next.
The tree is also available here:
https://gitlab.arm.com/linux-arm/linux-skp/-/tree/coresight/trbe-self-hosted-fixes/v3
Changes since v2 [1]:
- Address comments from Anshuman
- Perf tool patch queued, to report COLLISIONs in a session.
Changes since v1 [0]:
- Moved TRFCR related accessors to a new header file
- Following a discussion, dropped the TRUNCATED flag from
the TRBE IRQ handler on WRAP. Instead mark COLLISION.
- Added new patches to harden the ETM perf layer to handle
an error in the sink driver.
- Fix TRBE spurious IRQ handling
- Cleanup TRBE driver to make the "TRUNCATE" cases managed
at a central place.
[0] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210712113830.2803257-1-suzuki.poulose@arm.com
[1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210723124611.3828908-1-suzuki.poulose@arm.com
Suzuki K Poulose (10):
coresight: etm4x: Save restore TRFCR_EL1
coresight: etm4x: Use Trace Filtering controls dynamically
coresight: etm-pmu: Ensure the AUX handle is valid
coresight: trbe: Ensure the format flag is set always
coresight: trbe: Drop duplicate TRUNCATE flags
coresight: trbe: Fix handling of spurious interrupts
coresight: trbe: Do not truncate buffer on IRQ
coresight: trbe: Unify the enabling sequence
coresight: trbe: End the AUX handle on truncation
coresight: trbe: Prohibit trace before disabling TRBE
.../hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm-perf.c | 27 ++++-
.../coresight/coresight-etm4x-core.c | 100 ++++++++++++----
drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm4x.h | 9 +-
.../coresight/coresight-self-hosted-trace.h | 34 ++++++
drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-trbe.c | 111 ++++++++++--------
5 files changed, 200 insertions(+), 81 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-self-hosted-trace.h
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