Re: [PATCH] coresight: Serialize enabling/disabling a link device.

[Suzuki K Poulose]

Hi,-

On 08/08/2019 20:17, Yabin Cui wrote:
> When tracing etm data of multiple threads on multiple cpus through perf
> interface, some link devices are shared between paths of different cpus.
> It creates race conditions when different cpus wants to enable/disable
> the same link device at the same time.
>
> Example 1:
> Two cpus want to enable different ports of a coresight funnel, thus
> calling the funnel enable operation at the same time. But the funnel
> enable operation isn't reentrantable.
>
> Example 2:
> For an enabled coresight dynamic replicator with refcnt=1, one cpu wants
> to disable it, while another cpu wants to enable it. Ideally we still have
> an enabled replicator with refcnt=1 at the end. But in reality the result
> is uncertain.
>
> Since coresight devices claim themselves when enabled for self-hosted
> usage, the race conditions above usually make the link devices not usable
> after many cycles.
>
> To fix the race conditions, this patch adds a spinlock to serialize
> enabling/disabling a link device.
>
> Signed-off-by: Yabin Cui <yabinc@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>   drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight.c | 8 ++++++++
>   include/linux/coresight.h               | 3 +++
>   2 files changed, 11 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight.c b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight.c
> index 55db77f6410b..90f97f4f99b2 100644
> --- a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight.c
> +++ b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight.c
> @@ -256,6 +256,7 @@ static int coresight_enable_link(struct coresight_device *csdev,
>   	int ret;
>   	int link_subtype;
>   	int refport, inport, outport;
> +	unsigned long flags;
>   
>   	if (!parent || !child)
>   		return -EINVAL;
> @@ -274,15 +275,18 @@ static int coresight_enable_link(struct coresight_device *csdev,
>   	if (refport < 0)
>   		return refport;
>   
> +	spin_lock_irqsave(&csdev->spinlock, flags);
>   	if (atomic_inc_return(&csdev->refcnt[refport]) == 1) {
>   		if (link_ops(csdev)->enable) {
>   			ret = link_ops(csdev)->enable(csdev, inport, outport);
>   			if (ret) {
>   				atomic_dec(&csdev->refcnt[refport]);
> +				spin_unlock_irqrestore(&csdev->spinlock, flags);
>   				return ret;
>   			}
>   		}
>   	}
> +	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&csdev->spinlock, flags);
>   
>   	csdev->enable = true;
>   

> @@ -296,6 +300,7 @@ static void coresight_disable_link(struct coresight_device *csdev,
>   	int i, nr_conns;
>   	int link_subtype;
>   	int refport, inport, outport;
> +	unsigned long flags;
>   
>   	if (!parent || !child)
>   		return;
> @@ -315,10 +320,12 @@ static void coresight_disable_link(struct coresight_device *csdev,
>   		nr_conns = 1;
>   	}
>   
> +	spin_lock_irqsave(&csdev->spinlock, flags);
>   	if (atomic_dec_return(&csdev->refcnt[refport]) == 0) {
>   		if (link_ops(csdev)->disable)
>   			link_ops(csdev)->disable(csdev, inport, outport);
>   	}
> +	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&csdev->spinlock, flags);

You may also want to protect the refcount checks below with the same lock, just
to be consistent.

With that :

Reviewed-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@xxxxxxx>