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[v2,3/8] coresight: tmc-etf: Add comment for store ordering

Message ID 20210602103007.184993-4-leo.yan@linaro.org (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Series perf: Refine barriers for AUX ring buffer | expand

Commit Message

Leo Yan June 2, 2021, 10:30 a.m. UTC 
AUX ring buffer is required to separate the data store and aux_head
store, since the function CS_LOCK() has contained memory barrier mb(),
mb() is a more conservative barrier than smp_wmb() on Arm32/Arm64, thus
it's needless to add any explicit barrier anymore.

Add comment to make clear for the barrier usage for ETF.

Signed-off-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linaro.org>
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 drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-tmc-etf.c | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
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diff --git a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-tmc-etf.c b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-tmc-etf.c
index 45b85edfc690..9a42ee689921 100644
--- a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-tmc-etf.c
+++ b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-tmc-etf.c
@@ -553,6 +553,12 @@  static unsigned long tmc_update_etf_buffer(struct coresight_device *csdev,
 	if (buf->snapshot)
 		handle->head += to_read;
 
+	/*
+	 * AUX ring buffer requires to use memory barrier to separate the trace
+	 * data store and aux_head store, because CS_LOCK() contains mb() which
+	 * gives more heavy barrier than smp_wmb(), it's not necessary to
+	 * explicitly invoke any barrier.
+	 */
 	CS_LOCK(drvdata->base);
 out:
 	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&drvdata->spinlock, flags);