Re: [PATCH 4/5] Powerpc/hw-breakpoint: Optimize disable path

[Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>]

Le 18/06/2019 à 06:27, Ravi Bangoria a écrit :
> Directly setting dawr and dawrx with 0 should be enough to
> disable watchpoint. No need to reset individual bits in
> variable and then set in hw.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@linux.ibm.com>
> ---
>   arch/powerpc/include/asm/hw_breakpoint.h |  3 ++-
>   arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c            | 12 ++++++++++++
>   2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/hw_breakpoint.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/hw_breakpoint.h
> index 78202d5fb13a..8acbbdd4a2d5 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/hw_breakpoint.h
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/hw_breakpoint.h
> @@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ struct arch_hw_breakpoint {
>   /* Note: Don't change the the first 6 bits below as they are in the same order
>    * as the dabr and dabrx.
>    */
> +#define HW_BRK_TYPE_DISABLE		0x00

I'd rather call it HW_BRK_TYPE_NONE

>   #define HW_BRK_TYPE_READ		0x01
>   #define HW_BRK_TYPE_WRITE		0x02
>   #define HW_BRK_TYPE_TRANSLATE		0x04
> @@ -68,7 +69,7 @@ static inline void hw_breakpoint_disable(void)
>   	struct arch_hw_breakpoint brk;
>   
>   	brk.address = 0;
> -	brk.type = 0;
> +	brk.type = HW_BRK_TYPE_DISABLE;
>   	brk.len = 0;
>   	if (ppc_breakpoint_available())
>   		__set_breakpoint(&brk);
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c
> index f002d2ffff86..265fac9fb3a4 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c
> @@ -793,10 +793,22 @@ static inline int set_dabr(struct arch_hw_breakpoint *brk)
>   	return __set_dabr(dabr, dabrx);
>   }
>   
> +static int disable_dawr(void)
> +{
> +	if (ppc_md.set_dawr)
> +		return ppc_md.set_dawr(0, 0);
> +
> +	mtspr(SPRN_DAWRX, 0);

And SPRN_DAWR ?

The above code looks pretty similar to the one at the end of set_dawr(). 
You should factorise it, for instance

static int __set_dawr(int dawr, int dawrx)
{
	if (ppc_md.set_dawr)
		return ppc_md.set_dawr(dawr, dawrx);
	mtspr(SPRN_DAWR, dawr);
	mtspr(SPRN_DAWRX, dawrx);
	return 0;
}

> +	return 0;
> +}
> +
>   int set_dawr(struct arch_hw_breakpoint *brk)
>   {
>   	unsigned long dawr, dawrx, mrd;
>   
> +	if (brk->type == HW_BRK_TYPE_DISABLE)
> +		return disable_dawr();

Then replace by __set_dawr(0, 0);

> +
>   	dawr = brk->address;
>   
>   	dawrx  = (brk->type & HW_BRK_TYPE_RDWR) << (63 - 58);
> 

And use the new helper at the end of the function too.

Christophe