Re: [PATCHv4 1/2] tracing: Add register read/write tracing support

[Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>]

On Fri, 19 Nov 2021 14:07:09 +0000,
Sai Prakash Ranjan <quic_saipraka@quicinc.com> wrote:
> 
> On 11/19/2021 7:13 PM, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> > On Mon, 15 Nov 2021 11:33:29 +0000,
> > Sai Prakash Ranjan <quic_saipraka@quicinc.com> wrote:
> >> From: Prasad Sodagudi <psodagud@codeaurora.org>
> >> 

[...]

> >> Reason why we wouldn't need value along with mmio write log is
> >> that value can be easily deduced from the caller_name+offset which is
> >> printed already by the rwmmio trace events which gives the exact
> >> location of mmio writes and the value is easily known from the driver.
> > That's a very narrow view of what can be written in an MMIO
> > registers. We write dynamic values at all times, and if we are able to
> > trace MMIO writes, then the value written out must be part of the trace.
> > 
> > I'd rather you try and get to the bottom of this issue rather than
> > paper over it.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > 	M.
> > 
> 
> Sure, idea was to put it out in the open if anyone has any idea as
> to what might be happening there since the version where directly
> instrumenting the raw read/write accessors in arm64/asm/io.h was
> working fine casting doubts if this has to do something with
> inlining as Arnd mentioned before.

Yup. I wouldn't be surprised if MMIO accessors were getting directly
inlined at the wrong location and creating havoc. For example:

	writel(readl(addr1) | 1, addr2);

If you're not careful about capturing the result of the read rather
than the read itself, you can end-up with something really funky. No
idea if that's what is happening, but a disassembly of the generated
code could tell you.

	M.

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