Re: [PATCH v6 2/2] coresight: cti: Add Qualcomm extended CTI support

From: Leo Yan

Date: Fri Dec 05 2025 - 05:04:37 EST


Hi Mike,

On Thu, Dec 04, 2025 at 04:17:35PM +0000, Mike Leach wrote:

[...]

> The tables in the patch are
>
> [reg_type_array_index] = offset_address;
>
> e.g.
>
> [INDEX_CTIINTACK] = QCOM_CTIINTACK
>
> which resolves to
>
> [1] = 0x020
>
> where index is constant for a given register type,
>
> As far as I can tell what you have suggested above is a table that is
>
> [std_addr_offset] = qcom_addr_offset;
>
> e.g.
>
> [CTIINTACK] = QCOM_CTIINTACK,
>
> which resolves to
>
> [0x10] = 0x020
>
> which does not appear to work correctly?
>
> The registers are sparsely spread across the memory map, so a simple
> mapping does not work, even if we divide the original offset by 4 to
> create a register number.

This should work. Though the array is not filled for each item, but
it will return back 0x20 when we access array[0x10], I don't see
problem here.

> The largest standard offset we have is ITTRIGIN = 0xEF8, so assuming
> the compiler allows us to sparselly populate the array (which I think
> it does, along with some padding), we end up with an array of at least
> 0xEF8 elements, rather then the indexed 21?

I tested locally and did not see the GCC complaint for this approach.
And this is a global structure with about 16KiB (~4K items x
sizeof(u32)), we don't need to worry about scaling issue as it is
shared by device instances.

If you dislike this way, then a static function also can fulfill the
same task, something like:

static noinline u32 cti_qcom_reg_off(u32 offset)
{
switch (offset) {
CTIINTACK: return QCOM_CTIINTACK;
CTIAPPSET: return QCOM_CTIAPPSET;
...
default:
WARN(1, "Unknown offset=%u\n", offset);
return 0;
}

/* Should not run here, just for compiling */
return 0;
}

Thanks,
Leo