Hi Rob

Thanks for your response.

On 17/03/2023 14:52, Rob Herring wrote:

On Thu, Mar 16, 2023 at 10:06 PM Anshuman Khandual anshuman.khandual@arm.com wrote:

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Allow other drivers to claim a device, disregarding the "priority" of "arm,primecell". e.g., CoreSight ETM4x devices could be accessed via MMIO (AMBA Bus) or via CPU system instructions.

The OS can pick which one, use both, or this is a system integration time decision?

Not an OS choice. Historically, this has always been MMIO accessed but with v8.4 TraceFiltering support, CPUs are encouraged to use system instructions and obsolete MMIO. So, yes, MMIO is still possible but something that is discouraged and have to be decided at system integration time.

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The CoreSight ETM4x platform driver can now handle both types of devices. In order to make sure the driver gets to handle the "MMIO based" devices, which always had the "arm,primecell" compatible, we have two options :

1. Remove the "arm,primecell" from the DTS. But this may be problematic

for an older kernel without the support.

2. The other option is to allow OF code to "ignore" the arm,primecell

priority for a selected list of compatibles. This would make sure that both older kernels and the new kernels work fine without breaking the functionality. The new DTS could always have the "arm,primecell" removed.

3. Drop patches 6 and 7 and just register as both AMBA and platform

drivers. It's just some extra boilerplate. I would also do different compatible strings for CPU system instruction version (assuming this is an integration time decision).

The system instruction (and the reigster layouts) are all part of the ETMv4/ETE architecture and specific capabilities/features are discoverable, just like the Arm CPUs. Thus we don't need special versions within the ETMv4x or ETE minor versions. As of now, we have one for etm4x and another for ete.

One problem with the AMBA driver in place is having to keep on adding new PIDs for the CPUs. The other option is to have a blanket mask for matching the PIDs with AMBA_UCI_ID checks.

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This patch implements Option (2).

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: devicetree@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Co-developed-by: Suzuki Poulose suzuki.poulose@arm.com Signed-off-by: Suzuki Poulose suzuki.poulose@arm.com Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual anshuman.khandual@arm.com

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drivers/of/platform.c | 10 +++++++++- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/of/platform.c b/drivers/of/platform.c index b2bd2e783445..59ff1a38ccaa 100644 --- a/drivers/of/platform.c +++ b/drivers/of/platform.c @@ -325,6 +325,13 @@ static const struct of_dev_auxdata *of_dev_lookup(const struct of_dev_auxdata *l return NULL; }

+static const struct of_device_id of_ignore_amba_table[] = { +#ifdef CONFIG_CORESIGHT_SOURCE_ETM4X

•   { .compatible = "arm,coresight-etm4x" },
  

+#endif

•   {}    /* NULL terminated */
  

+};

• /**
  • of_platform_bus_create() - Create a device for a node and its children.
  • @bus: device node of the bus to instantiate

@@ -373,7 +380,8 @@ static int of_platform_bus_create(struct device_node *bus, platform_data = auxdata->platform_data; }

•   if (of_device_is_compatible(bus, "arm,primecell")) {
  

•   if (of_device_is_compatible(bus, "arm,primecell") &&
  

•       unlikely(!of_match_node(of_ignore_amba_table, bus))) {
  

of_match_node is going to take orders of magnitude longer than any difference unlikely() would make. Drop it.

Agreed.

Suzuki

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             /*
              * Don't return an error here to keep compatibility with older
              * device tree files.

-- 2.25.1