[PATCH v4 02/10] coresight: etm-perf: Remove workqueue for freeing AUX data
From: James Clark
Date: Fri Oct 16 2026 - 06:49:15 EST
AUX cleanup is deferred to a workqueue which is never flushed on module
unload. Pending work items can therefore run after coresight-config is
cleaned up or the module text is unloaded.
Since commit 95ff4ca26c49 ("perf/core: Free AUX pages in unmap path"), Perf
core stops AUX transactions and frees the PMU AUX data from the unmap
path in non-atomic context. Release the resources directly from the
free_aux() callback and remove the workqueue.
Fixes: 0bcbf2e30ff2 ("coresight: etm-perf: new PMU driver for ETM tracers")
Signed-off-by: James Clark <james.clark@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm-perf.c | 14 ++------------
drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm-perf.h | 2 --
2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm-perf.c b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm-perf.c
index 09b21a711a87..2323a68584d4 100644
--- a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm-perf.c
+++ b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm-perf.c
@@ -18,7 +18,6 @@
#include <linux/slab.h>
#include <linux/stringhash.h>
#include <linux/types.h>
-#include <linux/workqueue.h>
#include "coresight-config.h"
#include "coresight-etm-perf.h"
@@ -211,13 +210,12 @@ static void free_sink_buffer(struct etm_event_data *event_data)
sink_ops(sink)->free_buffer(event_data->snk_config);
}
-static void free_event_data(struct work_struct *work)
+static void etm_free_aux(void *data)
{
int cpu;
cpumask_t *mask;
- struct etm_event_data *event_data;
+ struct etm_event_data *event_data = data;
- event_data = container_of(work, struct etm_event_data, work);
mask = &event_data->mask;
/* Free the sink buffers, if there are any */
@@ -288,13 +286,6 @@ static void *alloc_event_data(int cpu)
return event_data;
}
-static void etm_free_aux(void *data)
-{
- struct etm_event_data *event_data = data;
-
- schedule_work(&event_data->work);
-}
-
/*
* Check if two given sinks are compatible with each other,
* so that they can use the same sink buffers, when an event
@@ -436,7 +427,6 @@ static void *etm_setup_aux(struct perf_event *event, void **pages,
event_data = alloc_event_data(cpu);
if (!event_data)
return NULL;
- INIT_WORK(&event_data->work, free_event_data);
/* First get the selected sink from user space. */
sink_hash = ATTR_CFG_GET_FLD(&event->attr, sinkid);
diff --git a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm-perf.h b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm-perf.h
index 24d929428633..5e8d985522bd 100644
--- a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm-perf.h
+++ b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm-perf.h
@@ -84,7 +84,6 @@ struct etm_filters {
/**
* struct etm_event_data - Coresight specifics associated to an event
- * @work: Handle to free allocated memory outside IRQ context.
* @mask: Hold the CPU(s) this event was set for.
* @aux_hwid_done: Whether a CPU has emitted the TraceID packet or not.
* @snk_config: The sink configuration.
@@ -92,7 +91,6 @@ struct etm_filters {
* @path: An array of path, each slot for one CPU.
*/
struct etm_event_data {
- struct work_struct work;
cpumask_t mask;
cpumask_t aux_hwid_done;
void *snk_config;
--
2.43.0