- 12 11月, 2010 1 次提交
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由 Jason Wessel 提交于
When using early debugging, the kernel does not initialize the hw_breakpoint API early enough and causes the late initialization of the kernel debugger to fail. The boot arguments are: earlyprintk=vga ekgdboc=kbd kgdbwait Then simply type "go" at the kdb prompt and boot. The kernel will later emit the message: kgdb: Could not allocate hwbreakpoints And at that point the kernel debugger will cease to work correctly. The solution is to initialize the hw_breakpoint at the same time that all the other perf call backs are initialized instead of using a core_initcall() initialization which happens well after the kernel debugger can make use of hardware breakpoints. Signed-off-by: NJason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com> CC: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> CC: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <4CD3396D.1090308@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
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- 01 5月, 2010 3 次提交
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由 Frederic Weisbecker 提交于
The breakpoint generic layer assumes that archs always know in advance the static number of address registers available to host breakpoints through the HBP_NUM macro. However this is not true for every archs. For example Arm needs to get this information dynamically to handle the compatiblity between different versions. To solve this, this patch proposes to drop the static HBP_NUM macro and let the arch provide the number of available slots through a new hw_breakpoint_slots() function. For archs that have CONFIG_HAVE_MIXED_BREAKPOINTS_REGS selected, it will be called once as the number of registers fits for instruction and data breakpoints together. For the others it will be called first to get the number of instruction breakpoint registers and another time to get the data breakpoint registers, the targeted type is given as a parameter of hw_breakpoint_slots(). Reported-by: NWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Acked-by: NPaul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: K. Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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由 Frederic Weisbecker 提交于
There are two outstanding fashions for archs to implement hardware breakpoints. The first is to separate breakpoint address pattern definition space between data and instruction breakpoints. We then have typically distinct instruction address breakpoint registers and data address breakpoint registers, delivered with separate control registers for data and instruction breakpoints as well. This is the case of PowerPc and ARM for example. The second consists in having merged breakpoint address space definition between data and instruction breakpoint. Address registers can host either instruction or data address and the access mode for the breakpoint is defined in a control register. This is the case of x86 and Super H. This patch adds a new CONFIG_HAVE_MIXED_BREAKPOINTS_REGS config that archs can select if they belong to the second case. Those will have their slot allocation merged for instructions and data breakpoints. The others will have a separate slot tracking between data and instruction breakpoints. Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Acked-by: NPaul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: K. Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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由 Frederic Weisbecker 提交于
Tag ptrace breakpoints with the exclude_kernel attribute set. This will make it easier to set generic policies on breakpoints, when it comes to ensure nobody unpriviliged try to breakpoint on the kernel. Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Acked-by: NPaul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: K. Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 27 2月, 2010 1 次提交
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由 Tejun Heo 提交于
Add __percpu sparse annotations to hw_breakpoint. These annotations are to make sparse consider percpu variables to be in a different address space and warn if accessed without going through percpu accessors. This patch doesn't affect normal builds. In kernel/hw_breakpoint.c, per_cpu(nr_task_bp_pinned, cpu)'s will trigger spurious noderef related warnings from sparse. Changing it to &per_cpu(nr_task_bp_pinned[0], cpu) will work around the problem but deemed to ugly by the maintainer. Leave it alone until better solution can be found. Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Cc: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com> LKML-Reference: <4B7B4B7A.9050902@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
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- 04 2月, 2010 1 次提交
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由 Mahesh Salgaonkar 提交于
Change 'bp_len' type to __u64 to make it work across archs as the s390 architecture watch point length can be upto 2^64. reference: http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/1/25/212 This is an ABI change that is not backward compatible with the previous hardware breakpoint info layout integrated in this development cycle, a rebuilt of perf tools is necessary for versions based on 2.6.33-rc1 - 2.6.33-rc6 to work with a kernel based on this patch. Signed-off-by: NMahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: NPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> Cc: "K. Prasad" <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Martin <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> LKML-Reference: <20100130045518.GA20776@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
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- 30 1月, 2010 1 次提交
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由 Jason Wessel 提交于
This patch fixes the regression in functionality where the kernel debugger and the perf API do not nicely share hw breakpoint reservations. The kernel debugger cannot use any mutex_lock() calls because it can start the kernel running from an invalid context. A mutex free version of the reservation API needed to get created for the kernel debugger to safely update hw breakpoint reservations. The possibility for a breakpoint reservation to be concurrently processed at the time that kgdb interrupts the system is improbable. Should this corner case occur the end user is warned, and the kernel debugger will prohibit updating the hardware breakpoint reservations. Any time the kernel debugger reserves a hardware breakpoint it will be a system wide reservation. Signed-off-by: NJason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com> Acked-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: kgdb-bugreport@lists.sourceforge.net Cc: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org LKML-Reference: <1264719883-7285-3-git-send-email-jason.wessel@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 15 12月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 David Howells 提交于
If there is no hardware breakpoint support, modify_user_hw_breakpoint() tries to return a NULL pointer through as an 'int' return value: In file included from kernel/exit.c:53: include/linux/hw_breakpoint.h: In function 'modify_user_hw_breakpoint': include/linux/hw_breakpoint.h:96: warning: return makes integer from pointer without a cast Return 0 instead. Signed-off-by: NDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 11 12月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Frederic Weisbecker 提交于
While converting modify_user_hw_breakpoint() return value, we forgot to handle the off-case. It's not returning a pointer anymore. This solves the build warning reported by Stephen Rothwell against linux-next. Reported-by: NStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com> LKML-Reference: <1260529122-6260-1-git-send-regression-fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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- 09 12月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Frederic Weisbecker 提交于
Currently, when ptrace needs to modify a breakpoint, like disabling it, changing its address, type or len, it calls modify_user_hw_breakpoint(). This latter will perform the heavy and racy task of unregistering the old breakpoint and registering a new one. This is racy as someone else might steal the reserved breakpoint slot under us, which is undesired as the breakpoint is only supposed to be modified, sometimes in the middle of a debugging workflow. We don't want our slot to be stolen in the middle. So instead of unregistering/registering the breakpoint, just disable it while we modify its breakpoint fields and re-enable it after if necessary. Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com> LKML-Reference: <1260347148-5519-1-git-send-regression-fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 07 12月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Frederic Weisbecker 提交于
The perf attrs used to set up breakpoint parameters are often allocated in the stack and not zeroed out before calling hw_breakpoint_init(). Handle it from this helper to avoid random attributes set by the stack. Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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- 06 12月, 2009 2 次提交
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由 Frederic Weisbecker 提交于
struct perf_event::event callback was called when a breakpoint triggers. But this is a rather opaque callback, pretty tied-only to the breakpoint API and not really integrated into perf as it triggers even when we don't overflow. We prefer to use overflow_handler() as it fits into the perf events rules, being called only when we overflow. Reported-by: NPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: "K. Prasad" <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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由 Frederic Weisbecker 提交于
Drop the callback and task parameters from modify_user_hw_breakpoint(). For now we have no user that need to modify a breakpoint to the point of changing its handler or its task context. Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: "K. Prasad" <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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- 27 11月, 2009 2 次提交
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由 Frederic Weisbecker 提交于
Kernel breakpoints are created using functions in which we pass breakpoint parameters as individual variables: address, length and type. Although it fits well for x86, this just does not scale across architectures that may support this api later as these may have more or different needs. Pass in a perf_event_attr structure instead because it is meant to evolve as much as possible into a generic hardware breakpoint parameter structure. Reported-by: NK.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <1259294154-5197-2-git-send-regression-fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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由 Frederic Weisbecker 提交于
In-kernel user breakpoints are created using functions in which we pass breakpoint parameters as individual variables: address, length and type. Although it fits well for x86, this just does not scale across archictectures that may support this api later as these may have more or different needs. Pass in a perf_event_attr structure instead because it is meant to evolve as much as possible into a generic hardware breakpoint parameter structure. Reported-by: NK.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <1259294154-5197-1-git-send-regression-fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 24 11月, 2009 2 次提交
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由 Frederic Weisbecker 提交于
Fix a misplaced ifdef. We need the perf event headers also in off-case to avoid the following build error: include/linux/hw_breakpoint.h:94: error: expected declaration specifiers or '...' before 'perf_callback_t' include/linux/hw_breakpoint.h:102: error: expected declaration specifiers or '...' before 'perf_callback_t' include/linux/hw_breakpoint.h:109: error: expected declaration specifiers or '...' before 'perf_callback_t' include/linux/hw_breakpoint.h:116: error: expected declaration specifiers or '...' before 'perf_callback_t' Reported-by: NKisskb-bot by Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com> LKML-Reference: <1259011812-8093-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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由 Frederic Weisbecker 提交于
As userspace only needs the breakpoints enum types from the breakpoints headers. Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com> LKML-Reference: <1258987355-8751-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 22 11月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Frederic Weisbecker 提交于
So that we can include this header from userspace tools, like perf tools, to get the breakpoint types and len definitions. Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com> LKML-Reference: <1258863695-10464-4-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 14 11月, 2009 2 次提交
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由 Ingo Molnar 提交于
the arch/alpha build fails with: In file included from tip/kernel/exit.c:52: tip/include/linux/hw_breakpoint.h: In function 'hw_breakpoint_addr': tip/include/linux/hw_breakpoint.h:21: error: 'struct perf_event' has no member named 'attr' [...] Move these helper inlines inside the CONFIG_HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT ifdef. Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com> LKML-Reference: <1258114575-32655-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> -
由 Frederic Weisbecker 提交于
If an arch doesn't support the hw breakpoints, counter_arch_bp() has no off case to cover the missing breakpoint info structure from the perf event. The result is a build error in non-x86 configs. Reported-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com> LKML-Reference: <1258114575-32655-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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- 08 11月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Frederic Weisbecker 提交于
This patch rebase the implementation of the breakpoints API on top of perf events instances. Each breakpoints are now perf events that handle the register scheduling, thread/cpu attachment, etc.. The new layering is now made as follows: ptrace kgdb ftrace perf syscall \ | / / \ | / / / Core breakpoint API / / | / | / Breakpoints perf events | | Breakpoints PMU ---- Debug Register constraints handling (Part of core breakpoint API) | | Hardware debug registers Reasons of this rewrite: - Use the centralized/optimized pmu registers scheduling, implying an easier arch integration - More powerful register handling: perf attributes (pinned/flexible events, exclusive/non-exclusive, tunable period, etc...) Impact: - New perf ABI: the hardware breakpoints counters - Ptrace breakpoints setting remains tricky and still needs some per thread breakpoints references. Todo (in the order): - Support breakpoints perf counter events for perf tools (ie: implement perf_bpcounter_event()) - Support from perf tools Changes in v2: - Follow the perf "event " rename - The ptrace regression have been fixed (ptrace breakpoint perf events weren't released when a task ended) - Drop the struct hw_breakpoint and store generic fields in perf_event_attr. - Separate core and arch specific headers, drop asm-generic/hw_breakpoint.h and create linux/hw_breakpoint.h - Use new generic len/type for breakpoint - Handle off case: when breakpoints api is not supported by an arch Changes in v3: - Fix broken CONFIG_KVM, we need to propagate the breakpoint api changes to kvm when we exit the guest and restore the bp registers to the host. Changes in v4: - Drop the hw_breakpoint_restore() stub as it is only used by KVM - EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL hw_breakpoint_restore() as KVM can be built as a module - Restore the breakpoints unconditionally on kvm guest exit: TIF_DEBUG_THREAD doesn't anymore cover every cases of running breakpoints and vcpu->arch.switch_db_regs might not always be set when the guest used debug registers. (Waiting for a reliable optimization) Changes in v5: - Split-up the asm-generic/hw-breakpoint.h moving to linux/hw_breakpoint.h into a separate patch - Optimize the breakpoints restoring while switching from kvm guest to host. We only want to restore the state if we have active breakpoints to the host, otherwise we don't care about messed-up address registers. - Add asm/hw_breakpoint.h to Kbuild - Fix bad breakpoint type in trace_selftest.c Changes in v6: - Fix wrong header inclusion in trace.h (triggered a build error with CONFIG_FTRACE_SELFTEST Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de> Cc: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
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- 06 11月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Frederic Weisbecker 提交于
We plan to make the breakpoints parameters generic among architectures. For that it's better to move the asm-generic header to a generic linux header. Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
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- 03 6月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 K.Prasad 提交于
The generic hardware breakpoint interface provides an abstraction of hardware breakpoints in front of specific arch implementations for both kernel and user side breakpoints. This includes execution breakpoints and read/write breakpoints, also known as "watchpoints". This patch introduces header files containing constants, structure definitions and declaration of functions used by the hardware breakpoint core and x86 specific code. It also introduces an array based storage for the debug-register values in 'struct thread_struct', while modifying all users of debugreg<n> member in the structure. [ Impact: add headers for new hardware breakpoint interface ] Original-patch-by: NAlan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Signed-off-by: NK.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: NAlan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
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