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SubjectRe: [PATCH] coresight: dynamic-replicator: Fix handling of multiple connections
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On 04/27/2020 10:45 AM, Mike Leach wrote:
> HI,
>
> On Mon, 27 Apr 2020 at 10:15, Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 04/26/2020 03:37 PM, Sai Prakash Ranjan wrote:
>>> Since commit 30af4fb619e5 ("coresight: dynamic-replicator:
>>> Handle multiple connections"), we do not make sure that
>>> the other port is disabled when the dynamic replicator is
>>> enabled. This is seen to cause the CPU hardlockup atleast
>>> on SC7180 SoC with the following topology when enabling ETM
>>> with ETR as the sink via sysfs. Since there is no trace id
>>> logic in coresight yet to make use of multiple sinks in
>>> parallel for different trace sessions, disable the other
>>> port when one port is turned on.
>>>
>>> etm0_out
>>> |
>>> apss_funnel_in0
>>> |
>>> apss_merge_funnel_in
>>> |
>>> funnel1_in4
>>> |
>>> merge_funnel_in1
>>> |
>>> swao_funnel_in
>>> |
>>> etf_in
>>> |
>>> swao_replicator_in
>>> |
>>> replicator_in
>>> |
>>> etr_in
>>>
>>> Kernel panic - not syncing: Watchdog detected hard LOCKUP on cpu 0
>>> CPU: 7 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/7 Tainted: G S B 5.4.25 #100
>>> Hardware name: Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. SC7180 IDP (DT)
>>> Call trace:
>>> dump_backtrace+0x0/0x188
>>> show_stack+0x20/0x2c
>>> dump_stack+0xdc/0x144
>>> panic+0x168/0x370
>>> arch_seccomp_spec_mitigate+0x0/0x14
>>> watchdog_timer_fn+0x68/0x290
>>> __hrtimer_run_queues+0x264/0x498
>>> hrtimer_interrupt+0xf0/0x22c
>>> arch_timer_handler_phys+0x40/0x50
>>> handle_percpu_devid_irq+0x8c/0x158
>>> __handle_domain_irq+0x84/0xc4
>>> gic_handle_irq+0x100/0x1c4
>>> el1_irq+0xbc/0x180
>>> arch_cpu_idle+0x3c/0x5c
>>> default_idle_call+0x1c/0x38
>>> do_idle+0x100/0x280
>>> cpu_startup_entry+0x24/0x28
>>> secondary_start_kernel+0x15c/0x170
>>> SMP: stopping secondary CPUs
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Sai Prakash Ranjan <saiprakash.ranjan@codeaurora.org>
>>> Tested-by: Stephen Boyd <swboyd@chromium.org>


>>
>> This is not sufficient. You must prevent another session trying to
>> enable the other port of the replicator as this could silently fail
>> the "on-going" session. Not ideal. Fail the attempt to enable a port
>> if the other port is active. You could track this in software and
>> fail early.
>>
>> Suzuki
>
> While I have no issue in principle with not enabling a path to a sink
> that is not in use - indeed in some cases attaching to unused sinks
> can cause back-pressure that slows throughput (cf TPIU) - I am
> concerned that this modification is masking an underlying issue with
> the platform in question.
>
> Should we decide to enable the diversion of different IDs to different
> sinks or allow different sessions go to different sinks, then this has
> potential to fail on the SC7180 SoC - and it will be difficult in
> future to associate a problem with this discussion.

Mike,

I think thats a good point.
Sai, please could we narrow down this to the real problem and may be
work around it for the "device" ? Do we know which sink is causing the
back pressure ? We could then push the "work around" to the replicator
it is connected to.

Suzuki

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