Re: [PATCH 0/9] coresight: change some driver' spinlock type to raw_spinlock_t

[James Clark]

On 25/11/2024 9:48 am, Yeoreum Yun wrote:
> In some coresight drivers, drvdata->spinlock can be held during __schedule()
> by perf_event_task_sched_out()/in().
>
> Since drvdata->spinlock type is spinlock_t and
> perf_event_task_sched_out()/in() is called after acquiring rq_lock,
> which is raw_spinlock_t (an unsleepable lock),
> this poses an issue in PREEMPT_RT kernel where spinlock_t is sleepable.
>
> To address this,change type drvdata->spinlock in some coresight drivers,
> which can be called by perf_event_task_sched_out()/in(),
> from spinlock_t to raw_spinlock_t.
>
> Levi Yun (9):
>    coresight: change coresight_device lock type to raw_spinlock_t
>    coresight-etm4x: change etmv4_drvdata spinlock type to raw_spinlock_t
>    coresight: change coresight_trace_id_map's lock type to raw_spinlock_t
>    coresight-cti: change cti_drvdata spinlock's type to raw_spinlock_t
>    coresight-etb10: change etb_drvdata spinlock's type to raw_spinlock_t
>    coresight-funnel: change funnel_drvdata spinlock's type to
>      raw_spinlock_t
>    coresight-replicator: change replicator_drvdata spinlock's type to
>      raw_spinlock_t
>    coresight-tmc: change tmc_drvdata spinlock's type to raw_spinlock_t
>    coresight/ultrasoc: change cti_drvdata spinlock's type to
>      raw_spinlock_t
>
>   .../hwtracing/coresight/coresight-config.c    |  21 +-
>   .../hwtracing/coresight/coresight-config.h    |   2 +-
>   drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-core.c  |   2 +-
>   .../hwtracing/coresight/coresight-cti-core.c  |  65 +-
>   .../hwtracing/coresight/coresight-cti-sysfs.c | 135 +++--
>   drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-cti.h   |   2 +-
>   drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etb10.c |  62 +-
>   .../coresight/coresight-etm4x-core.c          |  71 ++-
>   .../coresight/coresight-etm4x-sysfs.c         | 566 +++++++++---------
>   drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm4x.h |   2 +-
>   .../hwtracing/coresight/coresight-funnel.c    |  34 +-
>   .../coresight/coresight-replicator.c          |  36 +-
>   .../hwtracing/coresight/coresight-syscfg.c    |  75 ++-
>   .../hwtracing/coresight/coresight-tmc-core.c  |   9 +-
>   .../hwtracing/coresight/coresight-tmc-etf.c   | 195 +++---
>   .../hwtracing/coresight/coresight-tmc-etr.c   | 199 +++---
>   drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-tmc.h   |   2 +-
>   .../hwtracing/coresight/coresight-trace-id.c  |  93 ++-
>   drivers/hwtracing/coresight/ultrasoc-smb.c    |  12 +-
>   drivers/hwtracing/coresight/ultrasoc-smb.h    |   2 +-
>   include/linux/coresight.h                     |   4 +-
>   21 files changed, 751 insertions(+), 838 deletions(-)
>
> --
> LEVI:{C3F47F37-75D8-414A-A8BA-3980EC8A46D7}

Reviewed-by: James Clark <james.clark@xxxxxxxxxx>

Somewhat related to this change, but not something that needs to be done 
now:

All of the spinlocks for the syfs store/read functions don't need to be 
raw spinlocks, or spinlocks at all. They're never called from the 
scheduling code and can be locked by coresight_mutex instead. 
coresight_mutex is held on the sysfs enable/disable path when those 
values are actually used.

Same point as here: 
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/9a637e74-d81d-405c-bad0-c97ec1aa4b77@xxxxxxxxxx/

Probably needs a review of which values in each device might be shared 
between perf mode and sysfs mode when they shouldn't be, as there was 
one in the link above.

I thought the only thing shared between sysfs and perf should be the 
'mode' which is taken with a compare and swap without locking anyway.