Re: [2/2] coresight: Fix reference count for software sources

[Chunyan Zhang]

Hi Suzuki,

On 15 March 2017 at 02:06, Suzuki K Poulose <Suzuki.Poulose@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 14/03/17 17:40, Mathieu Poirier wrote:
>>
>> On 14 March 2017 at 11:32, Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> From: "Suzuki K. Poulose" <Suzuki.Poulose@xxxxxxx>
>>>
>>> For software sources (i.e STM), there could be multiple agents
>>> generating the trace data, unlike the ETMs. So we need to
>>> properly do the accounting for the active number of users
>>> to disable the device when the last user goes away. Right
>>> now, the reference counting is broken for sources as we skip
>>> the actions when we detect that the source is enabled.
>>>
>>> This patch fixes the problem by adding the refcounting for
>>> software sources, even when they are enabled.
>>>
>>> Cc: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Reported-by: Robert Walker <robert.walker@xxxxxxx>
>>> Signed-off-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@xxxxxxx>
>>> ---
>>>  drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight.c | 13 +++++++++++--
>>>  1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight.c
>>> b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight.c
>>> index 34cd1ed..2da9e39 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight.c
>>> +++ b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight.c
>>> @@ -552,6 +552,7 @@ int coresight_enable(struct coresight_device *csdev)
>>>         int cpu, ret = 0;
>>>         struct coresight_device *sink;
>>>         struct list_head *path;
>>> +       enum coresight_dev_subtype_source subtype =
>>> csdev->subtype.source_subtype;
>>
>>
>> Checkpatch.pl complains about a line over 80 characters.
>>
>>>
>>>         mutex_lock(&coresight_mutex);
>>>
>>> @@ -559,8 +560,16 @@ int coresight_enable(struct coresight_device *csdev)
>>>         if (ret)
>>>                 goto out;
>>>
>>> -       if (csdev->enable)
>>> +       if (csdev->enable) {
>>> +               /*
>>> +                * There could be multiple applications driving the
>>> software
>>> +                * source. So keep the refcount for each such user when
>>> the
>>> +                * source is already enabled.
>>> +                */
>>> +               if (subtype == CORESIGHT_DEV_SUBTYPE_SOURCE_SOFTWARE)
>>> +                       atomic_inc(csdev->refcnt);
>>>                 goto out;
>>> +       }
>>>
>
> Btw, should we allow the user to turn on the STM from sysfs (echo 1 >
> $STM/enable_source) ?

If enabling STM can not be allowed via sysfs, how should we allow
users to turn on STM when they want to mmap STM to user space, and
write STM device from user space directly? For example this kind of
use case [1].

> All STM users should set their policy via ioctls and that in turn turns the
> device on.

Yes users can set policy via ioctls to request resource of STM (i.e.
which STM channel(s) will be written), but they still need to use
sysfs to enable STM.

> So it doesn't make sense for enable_source to really enable
> the hardware unless someone really opens it.

Right, there're two ways to enable STM currently, e.g.
1) echo <addr>.stm  > /sys/class/stm_source/stm_ftrace/stm_source_link
2) echo 1 > $STM/enable_source

That would probably make people confused, I would appreciate any
better solution.


Thanks,
Chunyan

[1] https://github.com/lyrazhang/user-space-tests/tree/mmap-wrapper/mmap-wrapper

>
> Chunyan, Mathieu,
>
> thoughts ?
>
> Suzuki
>