CoreSight October 2025

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[PATCH v3 00/31] CoreSight: Address CPU Power Management Issues

by Leo Yan

This series addresses CPU power management issues in the CoreSight drivers. For easier review, the patches are organized into two categories: o Patches 01 ~ 10 focus on CPU power management within the ETM drivers. These patches fix SMP-safe access to the mode, correct context synchronization, and refactor the CPU suspend/resume flows. o Patches 11 ~ 31 extend CPU power management to cover activated paths, including helpers, links, and sinks. These changes move CPU PM and hotplug notifiers from the ETMv4 driver into the CoreSight core layer. Summary: - Patches 01 ~ 03: Fix device mode access in the SMP mode. - Patch 04 : A minor fix for polling bit. - Patches 05 ~ 07: Improve the context synchronization based on the ETM specification (IHI0064H.b) and Arm ARM (ARM DDI 0487 L.a). - Patches 08 ~ 10: Refactor the context save/restore flow in the ETMv4 driver, in the end, the CPU PM callbacks reuse the normal enabling and disabling flows. - Patches 11 ~ 17: Move CPU PM code from ETMv4 driver to the core layer. - Patches 18 ~ 23: Enhance the CTI driver for preparation dynamically controlling CTI devices in PM flows. This includes device mode handling in the CTI driver and distinguishing trace modes (Perf or SysFS). Refactor the PM notifier and improve locking usage (including for syscfg). - Patches 24 ~ 31: Support save and restore context for TRBE and manages activated paths during CPU idle and CPU hotplug. Verification: This series has been verified on Juno-r0 and r2 platform. Stress test script: #!/usr/bin/bash echo 1 > /sys/bus/coresight/devices/tmc_etr0/enable_sink while true; do echo 0 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu2/online; echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu2/online; done & while true; do echo 1 > /sys/bus/coresight/devices/etm2/enable_source; echo 0 > /sys/bus/coresight/devices/etm2/enable_source; done & Test script with kernel module insmod / rmmod: #!/bin/bash modules=( "coresight" "coresight_dummy" "coresight_replicator" "coresight_tpiu" "coresight_cpu_debug" "coresight_etb10" "coresight_stm" "coresight_trbe" "coresight_tmc" "coresight_ctcu" "coresight_catu" "coresight_etm4x" "coresight_cti" "coresight_funnel" "coresight_tnoc" ) module_dir="/mnt/build/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/" if [[ "$1" == "in" ]]; then echo "Inserting modules..." for mod in "${modules[@]}"; do modprobe $mod && echo "Loaded $mod" || echo "Failed to load $mod" done elif [[ "$1" == "rm" ]]; then echo "Removing modules..." # Remove in reverse order to respect dependencies for (( idx=${#modules[@]}-1 ; idx>=0 ; idx-- )); do mod="${modules[$idx]}" echo "Removing $mod..." rmmod "$mod" && echo "Removed $mod" || echo "Failed to remove $mod" done fi --- Changes in v3: - Fixed building failure in ETMv3 driver (kernel test robot). - Refactoring ETMv3 change for checking CPU ID (Levi). - Fixed NULL pointer issue during CPU idle (James). - Fixed lockdep complaint for HARDIRQ-safe and HARDIRA-unsafe (James). - Fixed acquiring mutex in atomic context (James). - Rebased on the latest coresight-next branch. - Link to v2: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250701-arm_cs_pm_fix_v3-v2-0-23ebb864fcc1@arm.c… Changes in v2: - Refactored ETMv4 suspend and resume for reusing the normal enabling and disabling flows (James). - Used a per-CPU structure to maintain path pointers (James). - Supported helpers in CPU PM flows (James). - Fixed the SMP-safe access to device mode. - Fixed the context synchronization in ETMv4x driver. - Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/20250516160742.1200904-1-leo.yan@a… Signed-off-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan(a)arm.com> --- Leo Yan (30): coresight: Change device mode to atomic type coresight: etm4x: Always set tracer's device mode on target CPU coresight: etm3x: Always set tracer's device mode on target CPU coresight: etm4x: Correct polling IDLE bit coresight: etm4x: Ensure context synchronization is not ignored coresight: etm4x: Add context synchronization before enabling trace coresight: etm4x: Properly control filter in CPU idle with FEAT_TRF coresight: etm4x: Remove the state_needs_restore flag coresight: etm4x: Add flag to control single-shot restart coresight: etm4x: Reuse normal enable and disable logic in CPU idle coresight: Populate CPU ID into the coresight_device structure coresight: sysfs: Validate CPU online status for per-CPU sources coresight: Set per CPU source pointer coresight: Register CPU PM notifier in core layer coresight: etm4x: Hook CPU PM callbacks coresight: Add callback to determine if context save/restore is needed coresight: etm4x: Remove redundant condition checks in save and restore coresight: cti: Fix race condition by using device mode coresight: cti: Introduce CS_MODE_DEBUG mode coresight: cti: Register PM notifier after data initialization coresight: cti: Properly handle modes in CPU PM notifiers coresight: cti: Make spin lock usage consistent coresight: syscfg: Use spinlock to protect active variables coresight: Add per-CPU path pointer coresight: Add 'in_idle' argument to path enable/disable functions coresight: Control path during CPU idle coresight: Add PM callbacks for percpu sink coresight: Take hotplug lock in enable_source_store() for Sysfs mode coresight: Move CPU hotplug callbacks to core layer coresight: Manage activated path during CPU hotplug Yabin Cui (1): coresight: trbe: Save and restore state across CPU low power state drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-catu.c | 1 + drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-core.c | 337 ++++++++++++-- drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-ctcu-core.c | 1 + drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-cti-core.c | 69 ++- drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-cti-sysfs.c | 2 +- drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-dummy.c | 1 + drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etb10.c | 1 + drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm3x-core.c | 55 ++- drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm4x-core.c | 491 ++++++--------------- drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm4x.h | 62 --- drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-funnel.c | 1 + drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-replicator.c | 1 + drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-stm.c | 1 + drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-syscfg.c | 22 +- drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-syscfg.h | 2 + drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-sysfs.c | 10 + drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-tmc-core.c | 1 + drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-tpda.c | 1 + drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-tpdm.c | 1 + drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-tpiu.c | 1 + drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-trbe.c | 85 ++++ drivers/hwtracing/coresight/ultrasoc-smb.c | 1 + include/linux/coresight.h | 55 ++- 23 files changed, 687 insertions(+), 515 deletions(-) --- base-commit: 559d6c380ea0a27e71d0269410301303515e4179 change-id: 20250909-arm_coresight_power_management_fix-139873f942e8 Best regards, -- Leo Yan <leo.yan(a)arm.com>

6 hours, 43 minutes

[PATCH v3 0/5] coresight: Add format attribute for setting the timestamp interval

by James Clark

Do some cleanups then add a new format attribute to set the timestamp interval for ETMv4 in Perf mode. The current interval is too high for most use cases, and particularly on the FVP the number of timestamps generated is excessive. Although it would be good to make only SYNC timestamps the default and have counter timestamps opt-in, this would be a breaking change. We can always do that later, or disable counter timestamps from Perf. This is added as an event format attribute, rather than a Coresight config because it's something that the driver is already configuring automatically in Perf mode with any unused counter, so it's not possible to modify this with a config. Applies to coresight/next Signed-off-by: James Clark <james.clark(a)linaro.org> --- Changes in v3: - Move the format attr definitions to coresight-etm-perf.h we can compile on arm32 without #ifdefs - (Leo) - Convert the new #ifdefs to a single one in an is_visible() function so that the code is cleaner - (Leo) - Drop the change to remove the holes in struct etmv4_config as they were grouped by function - (Mike) - Link to v2: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250814-james-cs-syncfreq-v2-0-c76fcb87696d@lina… Changes in v2: - Only show the attribute for ETMv4 to improve usability and fix the arm32 build error. Wrapping everything in IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_CORESIGHT_SOURCE_ETM4X) isn't ideal, but the -perf.c file is shared between ETMv3 and ETMv4, and there is already precedent for doing it this way. - Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250811-james-cs-syncfreq-v1-0-b001cd6e3404@lina… --- James Clark (5): coresight: Change syncfreq to be a u8 coresight: Repack struct etmv4_drvdata coresight: Refactor etm4_config_timestamp_event() coresight: Add format attribute for setting the timestamp interval coresight: docs: Document etm4x ts_interval Documentation/trace/coresight/coresight.rst | 14 +++ drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm-perf.c | 16 ++- drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm-perf.h | 7 ++ drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm4x-core.c | 110 +++++++++++++-------- drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm4x.h | 61 +++++++----- 5 files changed, 143 insertions(+), 65 deletions(-) --- base-commit: 01f96b812526a2c8dcd5c0e510dda37e09ec8bcd change-id: 20250724-james-cs-syncfreq-7c2257a38ed3 Best regards, -- James Clark <james.clark(a)linaro.org>

9 hours, 19 minutes

[PATCH 0/6] coresight: Add format attribute for setting the timestamp interval

by James Clark

10 hours, 53 minutes

[PATCH v2 0/6] coresight: Add format attribute for setting the timestamp interval

by James Clark

Do some cleanups then add a new format attribute to set the timestamp interval for ETMv4 in Perf mode. The current interval is too high for most use cases, and particularly on the FVP the number of timestamps generated is excessive. Although it would be good to make only SYNC timestamps the default and have counter timestamps opt-in, this would be a breaking change. We can always do that later, or disable counter timestamps from Perf. This is added as an event format attribute, rather than a Coresight config because it's something that the driver is already configuring automatically in Perf mode with any unused counter, so it's not possible to modify this with a config. Applies to coresight/next Signed-off-by: James Clark <james.clark(a)linaro.org> --- Changes in v2: - Only show the attribute for ETMv4 to improve usability and fix the arm32 build error. Wrapping everything in IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_CORESIGHT_SOURCE_ETM4X) isn't ideal, but the -perf.c file is shared between ETMv3 and ETMv4, and there is already precedent for doing it this way. - Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250811-james-cs-syncfreq-v1-0-b001cd6e3404@lina… --- James Clark (6): coresight: Change syncfreq to be a u8 coresight: Fix holes in struct etmv4_config coresight: Repack struct etmv4_drvdata coresight: Refactor etm4_config_timestamp_event() coresight: Add format attribute for setting the timestamp interval coresight: docs: Document etm4x ts_interval Documentation/trace/coresight/coresight.rst | 14 +++ drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm-perf.c | 13 ++- drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm4x-core.c | 110 +++++++++++++-------- drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm4x.h | 86 ++++++++++------ 4 files changed, 151 insertions(+), 72 deletions(-) --- base-commit: a80198ba650f50d266d7fc4a6c5262df9970f9f2 change-id: 20250724-james-cs-syncfreq-7c2257a38ed3 Best regards, -- James Clark <james.clark(a)linaro.org>

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