Re: [PATCH v3] coresight: etm4x: Modify core-commit of cpu to avoid the overflow of HiSilicon ETM

From: Suzuki Poulose
Date: Fri Oct 23 2020 - 06:40:59 EST


On 10/23/20 11:23 AM, Qi Liu wrote:
The ETM device can't keep up with the core pipeline when cpu core
is at full speed. This may cause overflow within core and its ETM.
This is a common phenomenon on ETM devices.

On HiSilicon Hip08 platform, a specific feature is added to set
core pipeline. So commit rate can be reduced manually to avoid ETM
overflow.

Signed-off-by: Qi Liu <liuqi115@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
Change since v1:
- add CONFIG_ETM4X_IMPDEF_FEATURE and CONFIG_ETM4X_IMPDEF_HISILICON
to keep specific feature off platforms which don't use it.
Change since v2:
- remove some unused variable.

drivers/hwtracing/coresight/Kconfig | 18 ++++++++
drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm4x-core.c | 50 ++++++++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 68 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/Kconfig b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/Kconfig
index c119824..9665d70 100644
--- a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/Kconfig
@@ -110,6 +110,24 @@ config CORESIGHT_SOURCE_ETM4X
To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
module will be called coresight-etm4x.

+config ETM4X_IMPDEF_FEATURE
+ bool "Control overflow impdef support in CoreSight ETM 4.x driver "
+ depends on CORESIGHT_SOURCE_ETM4X
+ help
+ This control provides overflow implement define for CoreSight
+ ETM 4.x tracer module which could not reduce commit race
+ automatically, and could avoid overflow within ETM tracer module
+ and its cpu core.
+
+config ETM4X_IMPDEF_HISILICON
+ bool "Control overflow impdef support in HiSilicon ETM 4.x driver "
+ depends on ETM4X_IMPDEF_FEATURE
+ help
+ This control provides overflow implement define for HiSilicon
+ ETM 4.x tracer module of Hip08 platform. Overflow within ETM
+ tracer module and its cpu core can be avoided by reducing core
+ commit manually.
+
config CORESIGHT_STM
tristate "CoreSight System Trace Macrocell driver"
depends on (ARM && !(CPU_32v3 || CPU_32v4 || CPU_32v4T)) || ARM64
diff --git a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm4x-core.c b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm4x-core.c
index abd706b..35f4333 100644
--- a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm4x-core.c
+++ b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm4x-core.c
@@ -103,12 +103,61 @@ struct etm4_enable_arg {
int rc;
};

+#ifdef CONFIG_ETM4X_IMPDEF_FEATURE
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_ETM4X_IMPDEF_HISILICON
+
+#define HISI_HIP08_CORE_COMMIT_CLEAR 0x3000
+#define HISI_HIP08_CORE_COMMIT_SHIFT 12
+static void etm4_hisi_config_core_commit(int flag)

nit: s/int flag/bool enable ?

+{
+ u64 val;
+
+ asm volatile("mrs %0,s3_1_c15_c2_5" : "=r"(val));
+ val &= ~HISI_HIP08_CORE_COMMIT_CLEAR;
+ val |= flag << HISI_HIP08_CORE_COMMIT_SHIFT;
+ asm volatile("msr s3_1_c15_c2_5,%0" : : "r"(val));

Sorry for missing this out. We don't encourage the above encodings
as it will break on legacy toolchain. So, please could you follow what
we do normally, by using sys_reg() macros to define the encoding and use
read/write_sysreg_s() instead. See arch/arm64/include/asm/sysreg.h


+}
+#else
+static void etm4_hisi_config_core_commit(int flag)
+{
+}
+#endif /* CONFIG_ETM4X_IMPDEF_HISILICON */
+
+static void etm4_enable_arch_specific(void)
+{
+ /*
+ * If ETM device is HiSilicon ETM device, reduce the
+ * core-commit to avoid ETM overflow.
+ */
+ etm4_hisi_config_core_commit(1);
+}
+
+static void etm4_disable_arch_specific(void)
+{
+ /*
+ * If ETM device is HiSilicon ETM device, resume the
+ * core-commit after ETM trace is complete.
+ */
+ etm4_hisi_config_core_commit(0);
+}
+#else
+static void etm4_enable_arch_specific(void)
+{
+}
+
+static void etm4_disable_arch_specific(void)
+{
+}
+#endif /* CONFIG_ETM4X_IMPDEF_FEATURE */
+
static int etm4_enable_hw(struct etmv4_drvdata *drvdata)
{
int i, rc;
struct etmv4_config *config = &drvdata->config;
struct device *etm_dev = &drvdata->csdev->dev;

+ etm4_enable_arch_specific();
CS_UNLOCK(drvdata->base);

Please could we move the enable_arch_specific() after the CS_UNLOCK ?
That way any potential code could do something with the ETM4x registers.


etm4_os_unlock(drvdata);
@@ -475,6 +524,7 @@ static void etm4_disable_hw(void *info)
struct device *etm_dev = &drvdata->csdev->dev;
int i;

+ etm4_disable_arch_specific();
CS_UNLOCK(drvdata->base);


Same here

Suzuki