[PATCH v2 0/8] coresight: Fix device registration and unregistration
Leo Yan
leo.yan at arm.com
Mon Jan 26 05:52:00 PST 2026
This series is to fix and refactor CoreSight device registration and
unregistration, it can be divided into three small parts:
Patches 01-03: Three fixes for memory leak, device reference and mutex
protection.
Patches 04-05: Move connection cleanup operations into
coresight_remove_conns().
Patches 06-08: Refactor error handling in coresight_register().
This series is verified on Juno board with kmemleak detector.
For kmemleak verifying:
echo clear > /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak
insmod coresight modules
rmmod coresight modules
echo scan > /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak
The result shows no memory leak during a cycle of device registration
and unregistration.
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Changes in v2:
- Refined the commit log in patch 06 (Suzuki).
- Unified to call coresight_unregister() for error handling (Suzuki).
- Refactor connection and sysfs group release.
- Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/20250512154108.23920-1-leo.yan@arm.com/
To: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose at arm.com>
To: Mike Leach <mike.leach at linaro.org>
To: James Clark <james.clark at linaro.org>
To: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin at linux.intel.com>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>
To: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier at linaro.org>
To: Mao Jinlong <quic_jinlmao at quicinc.com>
Cc: coresight at lists.linaro.org
Cc: linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan at arm.com>
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Leo Yan (8):
coresight: Fix memory leak in coresight_alloc_device_name()
coresight: Get parent device reference after sink ID map allocation
coresight: Protect unregistration with mutex
coresight: Refactor output connection sysfs link cleanup
coresight: Refactor sysfs connection group cleanup
coresight: Move sink validation into etm_perf_add_symlink_sink()
coresight: Do not mix success path with failure handling
coresight: Unify error handling in coresight_register()
drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-core.c | 105 +++++++++++------------
drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm-perf.c | 5 +-
drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-platform.c | 2 +-
drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-priv.h | 3 +-
4 files changed, 56 insertions(+), 59 deletions(-)
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base-commit: eebe8dbd8630f51cf70b1f68a440cd3d7f7a914d
change-id: 20260120-arm_coresight_refactor_dev_register-f16c069db41d
Best regards,
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Leo Yan <leo.yan at arm.com>
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