Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] drm/panfrost: Enable cycle counting when perfcnt is enabled

[Steven Price]

On 03/11/2026 20:36, Adrián Larumbe wrote:
> From: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> If we don't do that, we end up with invalid timestamps in the block
> headers.
> 
> We also need to avoid the warning on the cycle counter reference being
> other than 0 during device reset, because of perfcnt's lingering ref.
> 
> Ideally this would be dealt with by splitting the reset sequence into
> pre and post stages, so that a hypothetical panfrost_perfcnt_pre_reset()
> would release the cycle counter reference. In the absence thereof, we
> just make do.
> 
> Fixes: 7786fd108777 ("drm/panfrost: Expose performance counters through unstable ioctls")
> Signed-off-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Adrián Larumbe <adrian.larumbe@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/panfrost/panfrost_gpu.c     | 6 +++---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/panfrost/panfrost_perfcnt.c | 3 +++
>  2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/panfrost/panfrost_gpu.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/panfrost/panfrost_gpu.c
> index 6081b27829e1..7d66b1b50968 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/panfrost/panfrost_gpu.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/panfrost/panfrost_gpu.c
> @@ -94,10 +94,10 @@ int panfrost_gpu_soft_reset(struct panfrost_device *pfdev)
>  		  GPU_IRQ_CLEAN_CACHES_COMPLETED);
>  
>  	/*
> -	 * All in-flight jobs should have released their cycle
> -	 * counter references upon reset, but let us make sure
> +	 * Even though all in-flight jobs should have released their cycle counter
> +	 * references upon reset, perfcnt's might still hang about.
>  	 */
> -	if (drm_WARN_ON(&pfdev->base, atomic_read(&pfdev->cycle_counter.use_count) != 0))
> +	if (atomic_read(&pfdev->cycle_counter.use_count) != 0)
>  		atomic_set(&pfdev->cycle_counter.use_count, 0);

There's no point in doing the read - we might as well just
unconditionally do the atomic_set().

With that fixed:

Reviewed-by: Steven Price <steven.price@xxxxxxx>

>  
>  	return 0;
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/panfrost/panfrost_perfcnt.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/panfrost/panfrost_perfcnt.c
> index a9def452d5ef..b26da057a1a0 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/panfrost/panfrost_perfcnt.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/panfrost/panfrost_perfcnt.c
> @@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
>  #include "panfrost_device.h"
>  #include "panfrost_features.h"
>  #include "panfrost_gem.h"
> +#include "panfrost_gpu.h"
>  #include "panfrost_issues.h"
>  #include "panfrost_job.h"
>  #include "panfrost_mmu.h"
> @@ -52,6 +53,7 @@ static void panfrost_perfcnt_hw_disable(struct panfrost_device *pfdev)
>  	gpu_write(pfdev, GPU_PRFCNT_TILER_EN, 0);
>  
>  	if (perfcnt->owns_as_ref) {
> +		panfrost_cycle_counter_put(pfdev);
>  		panfrost_mmu_as_put(pfdev, perfcnt->mapping->mmu);
>  		perfcnt->owns_as_ref = false;
>  	}
> @@ -84,6 +86,7 @@ static int panfrost_perfcnt_hw_enable(struct panfrost_device *pfdev)
>  		return ret;
>  
>  	perfcnt->owns_as_ref = true;
> +	panfrost_cycle_counter_get(pfdev);
>  
>  	as = ret;
>  	cfg = GPU_PERFCNT_CFG_AS(as) |
>