Re: [PATCH V5 4/7] driver/perf/arm_pmu_platform: Add support for BRBE attributes detection

[Mark Rutland]

On Mon, Nov 07, 2022 at 11:55:11AM +0530, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
> This adds arm pmu infrastrure to probe BRBE implementation's attributes via
> driver exported callbacks later. The actual BRBE feature detection will be
> added by the driver itself.
> 
> CPU specific BRBE entries, cycle count, format support gets detected during
> PMU init. This information gets saved in per-cpu struct pmu_hw_events which
> later helps in operating BRBE during a perf event context.

Do we expect this to vary between CPUs handled by the same struct arm_pmu ?

> Cc: Will Deacon <will@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: linux-arm-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@xxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/perf/arm_pmu_platform.c | 34 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 34 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/perf/arm_pmu_platform.c b/drivers/perf/arm_pmu_platform.c
> index 933b96e243b8..acdc445081aa 100644
> --- a/drivers/perf/arm_pmu_platform.c
> +++ b/drivers/perf/arm_pmu_platform.c
> @@ -172,6 +172,36 @@ static int armpmu_request_irqs(struct arm_pmu *armpmu)
>  	return err;
>  }
>  
> +static void arm_brbe_probe_cpu(void *info)
> +{
> +	struct pmu_hw_events *hw_events;
> +	struct arm_pmu *armpmu = info;
> +
> +	/*
> +	 * Return from here, if BRBE driver has not been
> +	 * implemented for this PMU. This helps prevent
> +	 * kernel crash later when brbe_probe() will be
> +	 * called on the PMU.
> +	 */
> +	if (!armpmu->brbe_probe)
> +		return;

Since this is a field on struct arm_pmu, why doesn't armpmu_request_brbe()
check this before calling smp_call_function_single(), to avoid the redundant
IPI?

> +
> +	hw_events = per_cpu_ptr(armpmu->hw_events, smp_processor_id());
> +	armpmu->brbe_probe(hw_events);
> +}
> +
> +static int armpmu_request_brbe(struct arm_pmu *armpmu)
> +{
> +	int cpu, err = 0;
> +
> +	for_each_cpu(cpu, &armpmu->supported_cpus) {
> +		err = smp_call_function_single(cpu, arm_brbe_probe_cpu, armpmu, 1);

Why does this need to be called on each CPU in the supported_cpus mask?

I don't see anything here to handle late hotplug, so this looks suspicious.
Either we're missing something, or it's redundant at boot time.

Thanks,
Mark.

> +		if (err)
> +			return err;
> +	}
> +	return err;
> +}
> +
>  static void armpmu_free_irqs(struct arm_pmu *armpmu)
>  {
>  	int cpu;
> @@ -229,6 +259,10 @@ int arm_pmu_device_probe(struct platform_device *pdev,
>  	if (ret)
>  		goto out_free_irqs;
>  
> +	ret = armpmu_request_brbe(pmu);
> +	if (ret)
> +		goto out_free_irqs;
> +
>  	ret = armpmu_register(pmu);
>  	if (ret) {
>  		dev_err(dev, "failed to register PMU devices!\n");
> -- 
> 2.25.1
>