Re: [PATCH] coresight: etm_perf: Rework alloc/free methods to avoid lockep warning

[Suzuki K Poulose]

Hi Mathieu,

On 07/18/2018 08:43 PM, Mathieu Poirier wrote:
> When enabling the lockdep mechanic and working with CPU-wide scenarios we
> get the following console output:

> This is fixed by working with the cpu_present_mask, avoinding at the same
> the need to use get/put_online_cpus() that triggers lockdep.

The patch looks correct to me. In fact I have a patch [1], which
does the same thing and switches to using per-cpu variable for the
paths.

> Signed-off-by: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>   drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm-perf.c | 39 +++++++++++++-----------
>   1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm-perf.c b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm-perf.c
> index 677695635211..16b9c87d9d00 100644
> --- a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm-perf.c
> +++ b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm-perf.c
> @@ -108,26 +108,32 @@ static int etm_event_init(struct perf_event *event)
>   static void free_event_data(struct work_struct *work)
>   {
>   	int cpu;
> +	void *snk_config;
>   	cpumask_t *mask;
>   	struct etm_event_data *event_data;
>   	struct coresight_device *sink;
>   
>   	event_data = container_of(work, struct etm_event_data, work);
>   	mask = &event_data->mask;
> -	/*
> -	 * First deal with the sink configuration.  See comment in
> -	 * etm_setup_aux() about why we take the first available path.
> -	 */
> -	if (event_data->snk_config) {
> -		cpu = cpumask_first(mask);
> -		sink = coresight_get_sink(event_data->path[cpu]);
> -		if (sink_ops(sink)->free_buffer)
> -			sink_ops(sink)->free_buffer(event_data->snk_config);
> -	}
> +	snk_config = event_data->snk_config;
>   
>   	for_each_cpu(cpu, mask) {
> -		if (!(IS_ERR_OR_NULL(event_data->path[cpu])))
> -			coresight_release_path(event_data->path[cpu]);
> +		if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(event_data->path[cpu]))
> +			continue;
> +
> +		/*
> +		 * Free sink configuration - there can only be one sink
> +		 * per event.
> +		 */
> +		if (snk_config) {
> +			sink = coresight_get_sink(event_data->path[cpu]);
> +			if (sink_ops(sink)->free_buffer) {
> +				sink_ops(sink)->free_buffer(snk_config);
> +				snk_config = NULL;
> +			}
> +		}
> +
> +		coresight_release_path(event_data->path[cpu]);
>   	}

>   
>   	kfree(event_data->path);
> @@ -145,16 +151,13 @@ static void *alloc_event_data(int cpu)
>   	if (!event_data)
>   		return NULL;
>   
> -	/* Make sure nothing disappears under us */
> -	get_online_cpus();
> -	size = num_online_cpus();
> -
>   	mask = &event_data->mask;
> +	size = num_present_cpus();
> +
>   	if (cpu != -1)
>   		cpumask_set_cpu(cpu, mask);
>   	else
> -		cpumask_copy(mask, cpu_online_mask);
> -	put_online_cpus();
> +		cpumask_copy(mask, cpu_present_mask);

I think it is safe to use cpu_online_mask outside the
get/put_online_cpus(). Using present_mask may fail as
we could fail to create a path for a CPU that is not online.


Please could you check if [1] fixes the problem for you ?

[1] 
http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2018-July/591606.html

Cheers
Suzuki