CoreSight ETM4x devices could be accessed either via MMIO (handled via amba_driver) or CPU system instructions (handled via platform driver). But this has the following issues :
- Each new CPU comes up with its own PID and thus we need to keep on adding the "known" PIDs to get it working with AMBA driver. While the ETM4 architecture (and CoreSight architecture) defines way to identify a device as ETM4. Thus older kernels won't be able to "discover" a newer CPU, unless we add the PIDs.
- With ACPI, the ETM4x devices have the same HID to identify the device irrespective of the mode of access. This creates a problem where two different drivers (both AMBA based driver and platform driver) would hook into the "HID" and could conflict. e.g., if AMBA driver gets hold of a non-MMIO device, the probe fails. If we have single driver hooked into the given "HID", we could handle them seamlessly, irrespective of the mode of access.
- CoreSight is heavily dependent on the runtime power management. With ACPI, amba_driver doesn't get us anywhere with handling the power and thus one need to always turn the power ON to use them. Moving to platform driver gives us the power management for free.
Due to all of the above, we are moving the MMIO based etm4x devices to be supported via platform driver. The series makes the existing platform driver generic to handle both type of the access modes. With that we can also remove the etm4x amba driver.
Finally, we need a way to make sure the new driver gets control of the ETM4x device on a DT based system. CoreSight devices have always had the "arm,primecell" in the compatible list. But the way this is handled currently in OF code is a bit messy. The ETM4x devices are identified by "arm,coresight-etm4x". The platform driver can never get a chance to probe these devices, since the "arm,primecell" takes priority and is hard-coded in the OF code. We have two options here :
1) Remove the arm,primecell from all DTS. This is fine for "new" kernels with this change. But, for existing boards, using an older kernel will break. Thus, is not preferred.
2) Add a white list of "compatibles" where the "priority" of the "arm,primecell" can be ignored.
The series implements (2) above and applies on 6.3-rc2.
Cc: Steve Clevenger scclevenger@os.amperecomputing.com Cc: Rob Herring robh+dt@kernel.org Cc: Frank Rowand frowand.list@gmail.com Cc: Russell King (Oracle) linux@armlinux.org.uk Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" rafael@kernel.org Cc: Len Brown lenb@kernel.org Cc: Sudeep Holla sudeep.holla@arm.com Cc: Lorenzo Pieralisi lpieralisi@kernel.org Cc: Mathieu Poirier mathieu.poirier@linaro.org Cc: Suzuki K Poulose suzuki.poulose@arm.com Cc: Mike Leach mike.leach@linaro.org Cc: Leo Yan leo.yan@linaro.org Cc: devicetree@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org Cc: coresight@lists.linaro.org Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Anshuman Khandual (6): coresight: etm4x: Allocate and device assign 'struct etmv4_drvdata' earlier coresight: etm4x: Drop iomem 'base' argument from etm4_probe() coresight: etm4x: Drop pid argument from etm4_probe() coresight: etm4x: Change etm4_platform_driver driver for MMIO devices of/platform: Skip coresight etm4x devices from AMBA bus coresight: etm4x: Drop the AMBA driver
Suzuki Poulose (1): coresight: etm4x: Add ACPI support in platform driver
drivers/acpi/acpi_amba.c | 1 - .../coresight/coresight-etm4x-core.c | 171 ++++++++---------- drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm4x.h | 3 + drivers/of/platform.c | 10 +- include/linux/coresight.h | 56 ++++++ 5 files changed, 143 insertions(+), 98 deletions(-)