Re: [PATCH v2 0/9] coresight: Fix CTI module refcount leak by making it a helper device

[Mike Leach]

Hi James

On Fri, 10 Mar 2023 at 16:06, James Clark <james.clark@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Changes since v1:
>
>  * Don't dereference handle in tmc_etr_get_buffer() when not in perf mode.
>  * Fix some W=1 warnings
>  * Add a commit to rename child/output in terms of local/remote
>
> -------------------
>
> Currently there is a refcount leak in CTI when using system wide mode
> or tracing multithreaded applications. See the last commit for a
> reproducer. This prevents the module from being unloaded.
>
> Historically there have been a few issues and fixes attempted around
> here which have resulted in some extra logic and a member to keep
> track of CTI being enabled 'struct coresight_device->ect_enabled'.
> The fix in commit 665c157e0204 ("coresight: cti: Fix hang in
> cti_disable_hw()") was also related to CTI having its own
> enable/disable path which came later than other devices.
>
> If we make CTI a helper device and enable helper devices adjacent to
> the path we get very similar enable/disable behavior to now, but with
> more reuse of the existing reference counting logic in the coresight
> core code. This also affects CATU which can have a little bit of
> its hard coded enable/disable code removed.
>
> Enabling CATU on the generic path does require that input connections
> are tracked so that it can get its associated ETR buffer.
>
> Applies to coresight/next (669c4614236a7) but also requires the
> realloc_array patch here [1].
>
> Also available in full here [2].
>
> [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/20230306152723.3090195-1-james.clark@xxxxxxx/
> [2]: https://gitlab.arm.com/linux-arm/linux-jc/-/tree/james-cs-cti-module-refcount-fix-v2
>
> James Clark (9):
>   coresight: Use enum type for cs_mode wherever possible
>   coresight: Change name of pdata->conns
>   coresight: Rename nr_outports to nr_outconns
>   coresight: Rename connection members to allow for input connections
>   coresight: Dynamically add connections
>   coresight: Store in-connections as well as out-connections
>   coresight: Refactor out buffer allocation function for ETR
>   coresight: Enable and disable helper devices adjacent to the path
>   coresight: Fix CTI module refcount leak by making it a helper device
>
>  drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-catu.c  |  34 +-
>  drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-core.c  | 312 +++++++++++-------
>  .../hwtracing/coresight/coresight-cti-core.c  |  56 ++--
>  .../hwtracing/coresight/coresight-cti-sysfs.c |   4 +-
>  drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-cti.h   |   4 +-
>  drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etb10.c |   3 +-
>  .../coresight/coresight-etm3x-core.c          |   6 +-
>  .../coresight/coresight-etm4x-core.c          |   6 +-
>  .../hwtracing/coresight/coresight-platform.c  | 178 +++++++---
>  drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-priv.h  |   9 +-
>  drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-stm.c   |   6 +-
>  drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-sysfs.c |   9 +-
>  .../hwtracing/coresight/coresight-tmc-etf.c   |   2 +-
>  .../hwtracing/coresight/coresight-tmc-etr.c   |  89 ++---
>  drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-tmc.h   |   2 +
>  drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-tpdm.c  |   4 +-
>  drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-tpiu.c  |   3 +-
>  drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-trbe.c  |   3 +-
>  drivers/hwtracing/coresight/ultrasoc-smb.c    |   3 +-
>  drivers/hwtracing/coresight/ultrasoc-smb.h    |   2 +-
>  include/linux/coresight.h                     | 109 +++---
>  21 files changed, 530 insertions(+), 314 deletions(-)
>
> --
> 2.34.1
>

Looking at this overall - given that the only use of the in_conn is to
reference the connecting device from the helper,

i.e. coresight-catu.c:405:           tmp = csdev->pdata->in_conns[i].remote_dev;

would it not be simpler to :

a)
in coresight_connection add a field:

  struct coresight_device *origin_dev;

which mimics the origin / target model we already have in coresight_sysfs_link
then

b) the in_conns could simply be references to out_conn object from
origin_dev, rather than a complete coresight_connection  with reversed
values, thus simplifying the in_conns handling code, and removing the
unused reversed feilds in the current in_conn object.

e.g. tmp = csdev->pdata->in_conns[i]->origin_dev

The remainder of the code would remain much the same, just adjusted
for in_conns as refs rather than independent conn objects

Regards


Mike

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Mike Leach
Principal Engineer, ARM Ltd.
Manchester Design Centre. UK