Re: [PATCH V3 00/14] arm64: coresight: Enable ETE and TRBE

Anshuman Khandual
2021-02-18T04:25:38Z

On 2/2/21 12:14 AM, Mathieu Poirier wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 27, 2021 at 02:25:24PM +0530, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
>> This series enables future IP trace features Embedded Trace Extension (ETE)
>> and Trace Buffer Extension (TRBE). This series depends on the ETM system
>> register instruction support series [0] which is available here [1]. This
>> series which applies on [1] is avaialble here [2] for quick access.
>>
>> ETE is the PE (CPU) trace unit for CPUs, implementing future architecture
>> extensions. ETE overlaps with the ETMv4 architecture, with additions to
>> support the newer architecture features and some restrictions on the
>> supported features w.r.t ETMv4. The ETE support is added by extending the
>> ETMv4 driver to recognise the ETE and handle the features as exposed by the
>> TRCIDRx registers. ETE only supports system instructions access from the
>> host CPU. The ETE could be integrated with a TRBE (see below), or with the
>> legacy CoreSight trace bus (e.g, ETRs). Thus the ETE follows same firmware
>> description as the ETMs and requires a node per instance.
>>
>> Trace Buffer Extensions (TRBE) implements a per CPU trace buffer, which is
>> accessible via the system registers and can be combined with the ETE to
>> provide a 1x1 configuration of source & sink. TRBE is being represented
>> here as a CoreSight sink. Primary reason is that the ETE source could work
>> with other traditional CoreSight sink devices. As TRBE captures the trace
>> data which is produced by ETE, it cannot work alone.
>>
>> TRBE representation here have some distinct deviations from a traditional
>> CoreSight sink device. Coresight path between ETE and TRBE are not built
>> during boot looking at respective DT or ACPI entries.
>>
>> Unlike traditional sinks, TRBE can generate interrupts to signal including
>> many other things, buffer got filled. The interrupt is a PPI and should be
>> communicated from the platform. DT or ACPI entry representing TRBE should
>> have the PPI number for a given platform. During perf session, the TRBE IRQ
>> handler should capture trace for perf auxiliary buffer before restarting it
>> back. System registers being used here to configure ETE and TRBE could be
>> referred in the link below.
>>
>> https://developer.arm.com/docs/ddi0601/g/aarch64-system-registers.
> This set is giving me several checkpatch.pl warnings... Those about complex
> macros and DT bindings are fine but everything else should have been addressed
> by now. Since this is your first patchset I will carry on but I expect future
> submissions to be clean.
>

Hello Mathieu,

All the potential patches for upcoming V4 series applies cleanly but these are
some checkpatch.pl errors or warnings which could not be resolved.

- Anshuman

1. 0004-coresight-ete-Add-support-for-ETE-sysreg-access.patch
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ERROR: Macros with complex values should be enclosed in parentheses
#88: FILE: drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm4x.h:165:
+#define ETE_ONLY_SYSREG_LIST(op, val) \
+ CASE_##op((val), TRCRSR) \
+ CASE_##op((val), TRCEXTINSELRn(1)) \
+ CASE_##op((val), TRCEXTINSELRn(2)) \
+ CASE_##op((val), TRCEXTINSELRn(3))

ERROR: Macros with complex values should be enclosed in parentheses
#97: FILE: drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm4x.h:172:
+#define ETM4x_ONLY_SYSREG_LIST(op, val) \
CASE_##op((val), TRCPROCSELR) \
+ CASE_##op((val), TRCVDCTLR) \
+ CASE_##op((val), TRCVDSACCTLR) \
+ CASE_##op((val), TRCVDARCCTLR) \
+ CASE_##op((val), TRCOSLAR)

ERROR: Macros with complex values should be enclosed in parentheses
#104: FILE: drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm4x.h:179:
+#define ETM_COMMON_SYSREG_LIST(op, val) \
+ CASE_##op((val), TRCPRGCTLR) \
CASE_##op((val), TRCSTATR) \
CASE_##op((val), TRCCONFIGR) \
CASE_##op((val), TRCAUXCTLR) \

ERROR: Macros with complex values should be enclosed in parentheses
#133: FILE: drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm4x.h:382:
+#define ETM4x_READ_SYSREG_CASES(res) \
+ ETM_COMMON_SYSREG_LIST(READ, (res)) \
+ ETM4x_ONLY_SYSREG_LIST(READ, (res))

ERROR: Macros with complex values should be enclosed in parentheses
#137: FILE: drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm4x.h:386:
+#define ETM4x_WRITE_SYSREG_CASES(val) \
+ ETM_COMMON_SYSREG_LIST(WRITE, (val)) \
+ ETM4x_ONLY_SYSREG_LIST(WRITE, (val))

ERROR: Macros with complex values should be enclosed in parentheses
#147: FILE: drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm4x.h:396:
+#define ETM4x_SYSREG_LIST_CASES \
+ ETM_COMMON_SYSREG_LIST_CASES \
+ ETM4x_ONLY_SYSREG_LIST(NOP, __unused)

ERROR: Macros with complex values should be enclosed in parentheses
#155: FILE: drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm4x.h:403:
+#define ETE_READ_CASES(res) \
+ ETM_COMMON_SYSREG_LIST(READ, (res)) \
+ ETE_ONLY_SYSREG_LIST(READ, (res))

ERROR: Macros with complex values should be enclosed in parentheses
#159: FILE: drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm4x.h:407:
+#define ETE_WRITE_CASES(val) \
+ ETM_COMMON_SYSREG_LIST(WRITE, (val)) \
+ ETE_ONLY_SYSREG_LIST(WRITE, (val))

total: 8 errors, 0 warnings, 133 lines checked

2. 0006-dts-bindings-Document-device-tree-bindings-for-ETE.patch
================================================================

WARNING: added, moved or deleted file(s), does MAINTAINERS need updating?
#23:
new file mode 100644

total: 0 errors, 1 warnings, 74 lines checked

3. 0010-arm64-nvhe-Allow-TRBE-access-at-EL1.patch
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ERROR: spaces required around that ':' (ctx:VxE)
#49: FILE: arch/arm64/include/asm/el2_setup.h:93:
+1:
^

total: 1 errors, 0 warnings, 33 lines checked

4. 0011-coresight-sink-Add-TRBE-driver.patch
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WARNING: added, moved or deleted file(s), does MAINTAINERS need updating?
#36:
new file mode 100644

total: 0 errors, 1 warnings, 1322 lines checked

5. 0012-dts-bindings-Document-device-tree-bindings-for-Arm-T.patch
==================================================================

WARNING: added, moved or deleted file(s), does MAINTAINERS need updating?
#22:
new file mode 100644

total: 0 errors, 1 warnings, 49 lines checked

6. 0014-coresight-etm-perf-Add-support-for-trace-buffer-form.patch
==================================================================

WARNING: line length of 103 exceeds 100 columns
#82: FILE: include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h:1115:
+#define PERF_AUX_FLAG_CORESIGHT_FORMAT_CORESIGHT 0x0000 /* Default for backward compatibility */

total: 0 errors, 1 warnings, 24 lines checked