Re: [PATCH V3 3/4] coresight: trbe: Add a representative coresight_platform_data for TRBE

[Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>]

On 8/3/23 19:25, Suzuki K Poulose wrote:
> On 03/08/2023 06:56, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
>> TRBE coresight devices do not need regular connections information, as the
>> paths get built between all percpu source and their respective percpu sink
>> devices. Please refer 'commit 2cd87a7b293d ("coresight: core: Add support
>> for dedicated percpu sinks")' which added support for percpu sink devices.
>>
>> coresight_register() expect device connections via the platform_data. TRBE
>> devices do not have any graph connections and thus is empty. With upcoming
>> ACPI support for TRBE, we do not get a real acpi_device and thus
>> coresight_get_platform_dat() will end up in failures. Hence this allocates
>> a zeroed coresight_platform_data structure and assigns that back into the
>> device.
>>
>> Cc: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>
>> Cc: Mike Leach <mike.leach@linaro.org>
>> Cc: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linaro.org>
>> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
>> Cc: coresight@lists.linaro.org
>> Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
>> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
>> Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
>> ---
>>   drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-trbe.c | 6 +++---
>>   1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-trbe.c b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-trbe.c
>> index 7720619909d6..e1d9d06e7725 100644
>> --- a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-trbe.c
>> +++ b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-trbe.c
>> @@ -1494,9 +1494,9 @@ static int arm_trbe_device_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>>       if (!drvdata)
>>           return -ENOMEM;
>>   -    pdata = coresight_get_platform_data(dev);
>> -    if (IS_ERR(pdata))
>> -        return PTR_ERR(pdata);
>> +    pdata = devm_kzalloc(dev, sizeof(*pdata), GFP_KERNEL);
>> +    if (!pdata)
>> +        return -ENOMEM;
> 
> Please could you add a comment in here, on why we use a dummy platform
> data ? It is good to have documented it in the code too.

Sure, will add the following in-code documentation.

+       /*
+        * TRBE coresight devices do not need regular connections
+        * information, as the paths get built between all percpu
+        * source and their respective percpu sink devices. Though
+        * coresight_register() expect device connections via the
+        * platform_data, which TRBE devices do not have. As they
+        * are not real ACPI devices, coresight_get_platform_dat()
+        * ends up failing. Instead let's allocate a dummy zeroed
+        * coresight_platform_data structure and assign that back
+        * into the device for that purpose.
+        */