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To: yabinc@google.com, mathieu.poirier@linaro.org, alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com References: <20190808191726.65806-1-yabinc@google.com> From: Suzuki K Poulose Message-ID: Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2019 16:38:45 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20190808191726.65806-1-yabinc@google.com> Content-Language: en-US X-CRM114-Version: 20100106-BlameMichelson ( TRE 0.8.0 (BSD) ) MR-646709E3 X-CRM114-CacheID: sfid-20190809_083852_989562_6FCC9C1C X-CRM114-Status: GOOD ( 20.83 ) X-BeenThere: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Sender: "linux-arm-kernel" Errors-To: linux-arm-kernel-bounces+infradead-linux-arm-kernel=archiver.kernel.org@lists.infradead.org Hi,- On 08/08/2019 20:17, Yabin Cui wrote: > When tracing etm data of multiple threads on multiple cpus through perf > interface, some link devices are shared between paths of different cpus. > It creates race conditions when different cpus wants to enable/disable > the same link device at the same time. > > Example 1: > Two cpus want to enable different ports of a coresight funnel, thus > calling the funnel enable operation at the same time. But the funnel > enable operation isn't reentrantable. > > Example 2: > For an enabled coresight dynamic replicator with refcnt=1, one cpu wants > to disable it, while another cpu wants to enable it. Ideally we still have > an enabled replicator with refcnt=1 at the end. But in reality the result > is uncertain. > > Since coresight devices claim themselves when enabled for self-hosted > usage, the race conditions above usually make the link devices not usable > after many cycles. > > To fix the race conditions, this patch adds a spinlock to serialize > enabling/disabling a link device. > > Signed-off-by: Yabin Cui > --- > drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight.c | 8 ++++++++ > include/linux/coresight.h | 3 +++ > 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight.c b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight.c > index 55db77f6410b..90f97f4f99b2 100644 > --- a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight.c > +++ b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight.c > @@ -256,6 +256,7 @@ static int coresight_enable_link(struct coresight_device *csdev, > int ret; > int link_subtype; > int refport, inport, outport; > + unsigned long flags; > > if (!parent || !child) > return -EINVAL; > @@ -274,15 +275,18 @@ static int coresight_enable_link(struct coresight_device *csdev, > if (refport < 0) > return refport; > > + spin_lock_irqsave(&csdev->spinlock, flags); > if (atomic_inc_return(&csdev->refcnt[refport]) == 1) { > if (link_ops(csdev)->enable) { > ret = link_ops(csdev)->enable(csdev, inport, outport); > if (ret) { > atomic_dec(&csdev->refcnt[refport]); > + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&csdev->spinlock, flags); > return ret; > } > } > } > + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&csdev->spinlock, flags); > > csdev->enable = true; > > @@ -296,6 +300,7 @@ static void coresight_disable_link(struct coresight_device *csdev, > int i, nr_conns; > int link_subtype; > int refport, inport, outport; > + unsigned long flags; > > if (!parent || !child) > return; > @@ -315,10 +320,12 @@ static void coresight_disable_link(struct coresight_device *csdev, > nr_conns = 1; > } > > + spin_lock_irqsave(&csdev->spinlock, flags); > if (atomic_dec_return(&csdev->refcnt[refport]) == 0) { > if (link_ops(csdev)->disable) > link_ops(csdev)->disable(csdev, inport, outport); > } > + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&csdev->spinlock, flags); You may also want to protect the refcount checks below with the same lock, just to be consistent. With that : Reviewed-by: Suzuki K Poulose _______________________________________________ linux-arm-kernel mailing list linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-arm-kernel