[PATCH v3 06/10] coresight: trbe: Fix handling of spurious interrupts

Anshuman Khandual anshuman.khandual at arm.com
Tue Sep 14 22:44:12 PDT 2021



On 9/14/21 3:56 PM, Suzuki K Poulose wrote:
> On a spurious IRQ, right now we disable the TRBE and then re-enable
> it back, resetting the "buffer" pointers(i.e BASE, LIMIT and more
> importantly WRITE) to the original pointers from the AUX handle.
> This implies that we overwrite any trace that was written so far,
> (by overwriting TRBPTR) while we should have ignored the IRQ.
> 
> This patch cleans the behavior, by only stopping the TRBE if the
> IRQ was indeed raised, as we can read the TRBSR without stopping
> the TRBE (Only writes to the TRBSR requires the TRBE disabled).
> And also, on detecting a spurious IRQ after examining the TRBSR,
> we simply re-enable the TRBE without touching the other parameters.
> 
> Cc: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual at arm.com>
> Cc: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier at linaro.org>
> Cc: Mike Leach <mike.leach at linaro.org>
> Cc: Leo Yan <leo.yan at linaro.org>
> Signed-off-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose at arm.com>

Reviewed-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual at arm.com>

> ---
>  drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-trbe.c | 30 ++++++++++----------
>  1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-trbe.c b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-trbe.c
> index 5297b11f26b7..de99dd0aecd3 100644
> --- a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-trbe.c
> +++ b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-trbe.c
> @@ -677,16 +677,16 @@ static int arm_trbe_disable(struct coresight_device *csdev)
>  
>  static void trbe_handle_spurious(struct perf_output_handle *handle)
>  {
> -	struct trbe_buf *buf = etm_perf_sink_config(handle);
> +	u64 limitr = read_sysreg_s(SYS_TRBLIMITR_EL1);
>  
> -	buf->trbe_limit = compute_trbe_buffer_limit(handle);
> -	buf->trbe_write = buf->trbe_base + PERF_IDX2OFF(handle->head, buf);
> -	if (buf->trbe_limit == buf->trbe_base) {
> -		trbe_drain_and_disable_local();
> -		perf_aux_output_flag(handle, PERF_AUX_FLAG_TRUNCATED);
> -		return;
> -	}
> -	trbe_enable_hw(buf);
> +	/*
> +	 * If the IRQ was spurious, simply re-enable the TRBE
> +	 * back without modifying the buffer parameters to
> +	 * retain the trace collected so far.
> +	 */
> +	limitr |= TRBLIMITR_ENABLE;
> +	write_sysreg_s(limitr, SYS_TRBLIMITR_EL1);
> +	isb();
>  }
>  
>  static void trbe_handle_overflow(struct perf_output_handle *handle)
> @@ -759,12 +759,7 @@ static irqreturn_t arm_trbe_irq_handler(int irq, void *dev)
>  	enum trbe_fault_action act;
>  	u64 status;
>  
> -	/*
> -	 * Ensure the trace is visible to the CPUs and
> -	 * any external aborts have been resolved.
> -	 */
> -	trbe_drain_and_disable_local();
> -
> +	/* Reads to TRBSR_EL1 is fine when TRBE is active */
>  	status = read_sysreg_s(SYS_TRBSR_EL1);
>  	/*
>  	 * If the pending IRQ was handled by update_buffer callback
> @@ -773,6 +768,11 @@ static irqreturn_t arm_trbe_irq_handler(int irq, void *dev)
>  	if (!is_trbe_irq(status))
>  		return IRQ_NONE;
>  
> +	/*
> +	 * Ensure the trace is visible to the CPUs and
> +	 * any external aborts have been resolved.
> +	 */
> +	trbe_drain_and_disable_local();
>  	clr_trbe_irq();
>  	isb();
>  
> 



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