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From: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linaro.org>
To: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>
Cc: mark.rutland@arm.com, Al Grant <al.grant@arm.com>,
	lkp@intel.com, mathieu.poirier@linaro.org,
	alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com, coresight@lists.linaro.org,
	john.garry@huawei.com, acme@kernel.org, peterz@infradead.org,
	mingo@redhat.com, will@kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, mike.leach@linaro.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] coresight: etm-perf: Add support for PID tracing for kernel at EL2
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2021 08:05:15 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210111000515.GA3241@leoy-ThinkPad-X240s> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fb44270e-bdd7-3c3e-41ab-e4a2ad74e4f3@arm.com>

On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 10:34:57PM +0000, Suzuki Kuruppassery Poulose wrote:
> On 1/10/21 1:41 AM, Leo Yan wrote:
> > Hi Suzuki,
> > 
> > On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 01:24:30AM +0000, Suzuki Kuruppassery Poulose wrote:
> > 
> > [...]
> > 
> > > +static ssize_t format_attr_pid_show(struct device *dev,
> > > +				    struct device_attribute *attr,
> > > +				    char *page)
> > > +{
> > > +	int pid_fmt = ETM_OPT_CTXTID;
> > > +
> > > +#ifdef CONFIG_CORESIGHT_SOURCE_ETM4X
> > > +	if (is_kernel_in_hyp_mode())
> > > +		pid_fmt  = ETM_OPT_CTXTID_IN_VMID;
> > > +#endif
> > 
> > I have a different idea for this.  As Armv8 Arm describes: "The
> > Virtualization Host Extensions only apply to an implementation that
> > includes EL2 using AArch64.", seems to me it's more reasable to use
> > the condition "#ifdef CONFIG_64BIT", like below:
> > 
> > #ifdef CONFIG_64BIT
> >          if (is_kernel_in_hyp_mode())
> >                  pid_fmt  = ETM_OPT_CTXTID_IN_VMID;
> > #endif
> > 
> > Please let me know if this is better or not.  I will resend the patch
> > series after agreement.
> 
> I did think of that. But CORESIGHT_SOURCE_ETM4X already depends on CONFIG_ARM64.
> So, that is more restrictive in terms of usage. And this wouldn't be the only
> build failure if someone tried enable ETM4X for arm32. So I wouldn't worry about
> someone trying to use ETM4X on arm32 accidentally.

Makes sense, will send v2 with this change.

Thanks for confirmation,
Leo

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      reply	other threads:[~2021-01-11  0:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <202101091731.R1nMP6tg-lkp@intel.com>
2021-01-10  1:24 ` [PATCH] coresight: etm-perf: Add support for PID tracing for kernel at EL2 Suzuki K Poulose
2021-01-10  1:41   ` Leo Yan
2021-01-10 22:34     ` Suzuki K Poulose
2021-01-11  0:05       ` Leo Yan [this message]

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