On 07/26/2019 09:41 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
On Fri, Jul 26, 2019 at 01:50:27PM +0530, Sai Prakash Ranjan wrote:
On 7/26/2019 12:34 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
On Fri, Jul 26, 2019 at 11:49:19AM +0530, Sai Prakash Ranjan wrote:
Hi,
When trying to test my coresight patches, I found that etr,etf and stm
device nodes are missing from /dev.
I have no idea what those device nodes are.
Bisection gives this as the bad commit.
1be01d4a57142ded23bdb9e0c8d9369e693b26cc is the first bad commit
commit 1be01d4a57142ded23bdb9e0c8d9369e693b26cc
Author: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu Mar 14 12:13:50 2019 +0100
driver: base: Disable CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER by default
Since commit 7934779a69f1184f ("Driver-Core: disable /sbin/hotplug by
default"), the help text for the /sbin/hotplug fork-bomb says
"This should not be used today [...] creates a high system load, or
[...] out-of-memory situations during bootup". The rationale for this
was that no recent mainstream system used this anymore (in 2010!).
A few years later, the complete uevent helper support was made optional
in commit 86d56134f1b67d0c ("kobject: Make support for uevent_helper
optional."). However, if was still left enabled by default, to support
ancient userland.
Time passed by, and nothing should use this anymore, so it can be
disabled by default.
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
drivers/base/Kconfig | 1 -
1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
Any idea on this?
That means that who ever created those device nodes is relying on udev
to do this, and is not doing the correct thing within the kernel and
using devtmpfs.
Any pointers to where in the kernel those devices are trying to be
created?
Somewhere in drivers/hwtracing/coresight/* probably. I am not sure,
Mathieu/Suzuki would be able to point you to the exact code.
Also just to add on some more details, I am using *initramfs*
Are you using devtmpfs for your /dev/ mount?
I think that should solve the issue ^^
If you enable this option, what does:
ls -l /dev/etr
ls -l /dev/etf
ls -l /dev/stm
result in?
What are these device nodes for? Are they symlinks? Real devices that
show up in /sys/dev/char/ as a real value? Or something else?
Greg, those are registered as miscellaneous devices to export the trace
collected (for etfs and etrs) in sysfs mode and for user-space access to
allow STM tracing. So they are real devices.
Suzuki
