[PATCH v3 00/31] CoreSight: Address CPU Power Management Issues
Leo Yan
leo.yan at arm.com
Mon Sep 15 03:33:23 PDT 2025
This series addresses CPU power management issues in the CoreSight
drivers. For easier review, the patches are organized into two
categories:
o Patches 01 ~ 10 focus on CPU power management within the ETM drivers.
These patches fix SMP-safe access to the mode, correct context
synchronization, and refactor the CPU suspend/resume flows.
o Patches 11 ~ 31 extend CPU power management to cover activated paths,
including helpers, links, and sinks. These changes move CPU PM and
hotplug notifiers from the ETMv4 driver into the CoreSight core layer.
Summary:
- Patches 01 ~ 03: Fix device mode access in the SMP mode.
- Patch 04 : A minor fix for polling bit.
- Patches 05 ~ 07: Improve the context synchronization based on the ETM
specification (IHI0064H.b) and Arm ARM (ARM DDI 0487
L.a).
- Patches 08 ~ 10: Refactor the context save/restore flow in the ETMv4
driver, in the end, the CPU PM callbacks reuse the
normal enabling and disabling flows.
- Patches 11 ~ 17: Move CPU PM code from ETMv4 driver to the core layer.
- Patches 18 ~ 23: Enhance the CTI driver for preparation dynamically
controlling CTI devices in PM flows. This includes
device mode handling in the CTI driver and
distinguishing trace modes (Perf or SysFS). Refactor
the PM notifier and improve locking usage (including
for syscfg).
- Patches 24 ~ 31: Support save and restore context for TRBE and
manages activated paths during CPU idle and
CPU hotplug.
Verification:
This series has been verified on Juno-r0 and r2 platform.
Stress test script:
#!/usr/bin/bash
echo 1 > /sys/bus/coresight/devices/tmc_etr0/enable_sink
while true; do
echo 0 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu2/online;
echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu2/online;
done &
while true; do
echo 1 > /sys/bus/coresight/devices/etm2/enable_source;
echo 0 > /sys/bus/coresight/devices/etm2/enable_source;
done &
Test script with kernel module insmod / rmmod:
#!/bin/bash
modules=(
"coresight"
"coresight_dummy"
"coresight_replicator"
"coresight_tpiu"
"coresight_cpu_debug"
"coresight_etb10"
"coresight_stm"
"coresight_trbe"
"coresight_tmc"
"coresight_ctcu"
"coresight_catu"
"coresight_etm4x"
"coresight_cti"
"coresight_funnel"
"coresight_tnoc"
)
module_dir="/mnt/build/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/"
if [[ "$1" == "in" ]]; then
echo "Inserting modules..."
for mod in "${modules[@]}"; do
modprobe $mod && echo "Loaded $mod" || echo "Failed to load $mod"
done
elif [[ "$1" == "rm" ]]; then
echo "Removing modules..."
# Remove in reverse order to respect dependencies
for (( idx=${#modules[@]}-1 ; idx>=0 ; idx-- )); do
mod="${modules[$idx]}"
echo "Removing $mod..."
rmmod "$mod" && echo "Removed $mod" || echo "Failed to remove $mod"
done
fi
---
Changes in v3:
- Fixed building failure in ETMv3 driver (kernel test robot).
- Refactoring ETMv3 change for checking CPU ID (Levi).
- Fixed NULL pointer issue during CPU idle (James).
- Fixed lockdep complaint for HARDIRQ-safe and HARDIRA-unsafe (James).
- Fixed acquiring mutex in atomic context (James).
- Rebased on the latest coresight-next branch.
- Link to v2: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250701-arm_cs_pm_fix_v3-v2-0-23ebb864fcc1@arm.com
Changes in v2:
- Refactored ETMv4 suspend and resume for reusing the normal enabling
and disabling flows (James).
- Used a per-CPU structure to maintain path pointers (James).
- Supported helpers in CPU PM flows (James).
- Fixed the SMP-safe access to device mode.
- Fixed the context synchronization in ETMv4x driver.
- Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/20250516160742.1200904-1-leo.yan@arm.com/
Signed-off-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan at arm.com>
---
Leo Yan (30):
coresight: Change device mode to atomic type
coresight: etm4x: Always set tracer's device mode on target CPU
coresight: etm3x: Always set tracer's device mode on target CPU
coresight: etm4x: Correct polling IDLE bit
coresight: etm4x: Ensure context synchronization is not ignored
coresight: etm4x: Add context synchronization before enabling trace
coresight: etm4x: Properly control filter in CPU idle with FEAT_TRF
coresight: etm4x: Remove the state_needs_restore flag
coresight: etm4x: Add flag to control single-shot restart
coresight: etm4x: Reuse normal enable and disable logic in CPU idle
coresight: Populate CPU ID into the coresight_device structure
coresight: sysfs: Validate CPU online status for per-CPU sources
coresight: Set per CPU source pointer
coresight: Register CPU PM notifier in core layer
coresight: etm4x: Hook CPU PM callbacks
coresight: Add callback to determine if context save/restore is needed
coresight: etm4x: Remove redundant condition checks in save and restore
coresight: cti: Fix race condition by using device mode
coresight: cti: Introduce CS_MODE_DEBUG mode
coresight: cti: Register PM notifier after data initialization
coresight: cti: Properly handle modes in CPU PM notifiers
coresight: cti: Make spin lock usage consistent
coresight: syscfg: Use spinlock to protect active variables
coresight: Add per-CPU path pointer
coresight: Add 'in_idle' argument to path enable/disable functions
coresight: Control path during CPU idle
coresight: Add PM callbacks for percpu sink
coresight: Take hotplug lock in enable_source_store() for Sysfs mode
coresight: Move CPU hotplug callbacks to core layer
coresight: Manage activated path during CPU hotplug
Yabin Cui (1):
coresight: trbe: Save and restore state across CPU low power state
drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-catu.c | 1 +
drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-core.c | 337 ++++++++++++--
drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-ctcu-core.c | 1 +
drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-cti-core.c | 69 ++-
drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-cti-sysfs.c | 2 +-
drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-dummy.c | 1 +
drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etb10.c | 1 +
drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm3x-core.c | 55 ++-
drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm4x-core.c | 491 ++++++---------------
drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm4x.h | 62 ---
drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-funnel.c | 1 +
drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-replicator.c | 1 +
drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-stm.c | 1 +
drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-syscfg.c | 22 +-
drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-syscfg.h | 2 +
drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-sysfs.c | 10 +
drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-tmc-core.c | 1 +
drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-tpda.c | 1 +
drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-tpdm.c | 1 +
drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-tpiu.c | 1 +
drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-trbe.c | 85 ++++
drivers/hwtracing/coresight/ultrasoc-smb.c | 1 +
include/linux/coresight.h | 55 ++-
23 files changed, 687 insertions(+), 515 deletions(-)
---
base-commit: 559d6c380ea0a27e71d0269410301303515e4179
change-id: 20250909-arm_coresight_power_management_fix-139873f942e8
Best regards,
--
Leo Yan <leo.yan at arm.com>
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