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author | Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org> | 2019-09-25 13:02:20 -0700 |
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committer | Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org> | 2019-10-10 16:28:48 +0100 |
commit | 2277b492582d5525244519f60da6f9daea5ef41a (patch) | |
tree | bc320cb3a603fd0172d5dac3ffbe0c0f8c79d09b /kernel/debug/debug_core.c | |
parent | 55a7e23f461fc2c321d7efcdeca1750085e9323f (diff) | |
download | linux-2277b492582d5525244519f60da6f9daea5ef41a.tar.bz2 |
kdb: Fix stack crawling on 'running' CPUs that aren't the master
In kdb when you do 'btc' (back trace on CPU) it doesn't necessarily
give you the right info. Specifically on many architectures
(including arm64, where I tested) you can't dump the stack of a
"running" process that isn't the process running on the current CPU.
This can be seen by this:
echo SOFTLOCKUP > /sys/kernel/debug/provoke-crash/DIRECT
# wait 2 seconds
<sysrq>g
Here's what I see now on rk3399-gru-kevin. I see the stack crawl for
the CPU that handled the sysrq but everything else just shows me stuck
in __switch_to() which is bogus:
======
[0]kdb> btc
btc: cpu status: Currently on cpu 0
Available cpus: 0, 1-3(I), 4, 5(I)
Stack traceback for pid 0
0xffffff801101a9c0 0 0 1 0 R 0xffffff801101b3b0 *swapper/0
Call trace:
dump_backtrace+0x0/0x138
...
kgdb_compiled_brk_fn+0x34/0x44
...
sysrq_handle_dbg+0x34/0x5c
Stack traceback for pid 0
0xffffffc0f175a040 0 0 1 1 I 0xffffffc0f175aa30 swapper/1
Call trace:
__switch_to+0x1e4/0x240
0xffffffc0f65616c0
Stack traceback for pid 0
0xffffffc0f175d040 0 0 1 2 I 0xffffffc0f175da30 swapper/2
Call trace:
__switch_to+0x1e4/0x240
0xffffffc0f65806c0
Stack traceback for pid 0
0xffffffc0f175b040 0 0 1 3 I 0xffffffc0f175ba30 swapper/3
Call trace:
__switch_to+0x1e4/0x240
0xffffffc0f659f6c0
Stack traceback for pid 1474
0xffffffc0dde8b040 1474 727 1 4 R 0xffffffc0dde8ba30 bash
Call trace:
__switch_to+0x1e4/0x240
__schedule+0x464/0x618
0xffffffc0dde8b040
Stack traceback for pid 0
0xffffffc0f17b0040 0 0 1 5 I 0xffffffc0f17b0a30 swapper/5
Call trace:
__switch_to+0x1e4/0x240
0xffffffc0f65dd6c0
===
The problem is that 'btc' eventually boils down to
show_stack(task_struct, NULL);
...and show_stack() doesn't work for "running" CPUs because their
registers haven't been stashed.
On x86 things might work better (I haven't tested) because kdb has a
special case for x86 in kdb_show_stack() where it passes the stack
pointer to show_stack(). This wouldn't work on arm64 where the stack
crawling function seems needs the "fp" and "pc", not the "sp" which is
presumably why arm64's show_stack() function totally ignores the "sp"
parameter.
NOTE: we _can_ get a good stack dump for all the cpus if we manually
switch each one to the kdb master and do a back trace. AKA:
cpu 4
bt
...will give the expected trace. That's because now arm64's
dump_backtrace will now see that "tsk == current" and go through a
different path.
In this patch I fix the problems by catching a request to stack crawl
a task that's running on a CPU and then I ask that CPU to do the stack
crawl.
NOTE: this will (presumably) change what stack crawls are printed for
x86 machines. Now kdb functions will show up in the stack crawl.
Presumably this is OK but if it's not we can go back and add a special
case for x86 again.
Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/debug/debug_core.c')
-rw-r--r-- | kernel/debug/debug_core.c | 34 |
1 files changed, 34 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/debug/debug_core.c b/kernel/debug/debug_core.c index f76d6f77dd5e..70e86b4b4932 100644 --- a/kernel/debug/debug_core.c +++ b/kernel/debug/debug_core.c @@ -441,6 +441,37 @@ setundefined: return 0; } +#ifdef CONFIG_KGDB_KDB +void kdb_dump_stack_on_cpu(int cpu) +{ + if (cpu == raw_smp_processor_id()) { + dump_stack(); + return; + } + + if (!(kgdb_info[cpu].exception_state & DCPU_IS_SLAVE)) { + kdb_printf("ERROR: Task on cpu %d didn't stop in the debugger\n", + cpu); + return; + } + + /* + * In general, architectures don't support dumping the stack of a + * "running" process that's not the current one. From the point of + * view of the Linux, kernel processes that are looping in the kgdb + * slave loop are still "running". There's also no API (that actually + * works across all architectures) that can do a stack crawl based + * on registers passed as a parameter. + * + * Solve this conundrum by asking slave CPUs to do the backtrace + * themselves. + */ + kgdb_info[cpu].exception_state |= DCPU_WANT_BT; + while (kgdb_info[cpu].exception_state & DCPU_WANT_BT) + cpu_relax(); +} +#endif + /* * Return true if there is a valid kgdb I/O module. Also if no * debugger is attached a message can be printed to the console about @@ -580,6 +611,9 @@ cpu_loop: atomic_xchg(&kgdb_active, cpu); break; } + } else if (kgdb_info[cpu].exception_state & DCPU_WANT_BT) { + dump_stack(); + kgdb_info[cpu].exception_state &= ~DCPU_WANT_BT; } else if (kgdb_info[cpu].exception_state & DCPU_IS_SLAVE) { if (!raw_spin_is_locked(&dbg_slave_lock)) goto return_normal; |