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2015-02-19debug: prevent entering debug mode on panic/exception.Colin Cross1-0/+17
On non-developer devices, kgdb prevents the device from rebooting after a panic. Incase of panics and exceptions, to allow the device to reboot, prevent entering debug mode to avoid getting stuck waiting for the user to interact with debugger. To avoid entering the debugger on panic/exception without any extra configuration, panic_timeout is being used which can be set via /proc/sys/kernel/panic at run time and CONFIG_PANIC_TIMEOUT sets the default value. Setting panic_timeout indicates that the user requested machine to perform unattended reboot after panic. We dont want to get stuck waiting for the user input incase of panic. Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: kgdb-bugreport@lists.sourceforge.net Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Android Kernel Team <kernel-team@android.com> Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Cc: Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Colin Cross <ccross@android.com> [Kiran: Added context to commit message. panic_timeout is used instead of break_on_panic and break_on_exception to honor CONFIG_PANIC_TIMEOUT Modified the commit as per community feedback] Signed-off-by: Kiran Raparthy <kiran.kumar@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
2015-02-19kdb: Fix off by one error in kdb_cpu()Jason Wessel1-1/+1
There was a follow on replacement patch against the prior "kgdb: Timeout if secondary CPUs ignore the roundup". See: https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/1/7/442 This patch is the delta vs the patch that was committed upstream: * Fix an off-by-one error in kdb_cpu(). * Replace NR_CPUS with CONFIG_NR_CPUS to tell checkpatch that we really want a static limit. * Removed the "KGDB: " prefix from the pr_crit() in debug_core.c (kgdb-next contains a patch which introduced pr_fmt() to this file to the tag will now be applied automatically). Cc: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
2014-11-11kernel/debug/debug_core.c: Logging clean-upFabian Frederick1-22/+21
-Convert printk( to pr_foo() -Add pr_fmt -Coalesce formats Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be> Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
2014-11-11kgdb: timeout if secondary CPUs ignore the roundupDaniel Thompson1-2/+7
Currently if an active CPU fails to respond to a roundup request the CPU that requested the roundup will become stuck. This needlessly reduces the robustness of the debugger. This patch introduces a timeout allowing the system state to be examined even when the system contains unresponsive processors. It also modifies kdb's cpu command to make it censor attempts to switch to unresponsive processors and to report their state as (D)ead. Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org> Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
2014-04-18arch: Mass conversion of smp_mb__*()Peter Zijlstra1-2/+2
Mostly scripted conversion of the smp_mb__* barriers. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-55dhyhocezdw1dg7u19hmh1u@git.kernel.org Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-04-07mm: per-thread vma cachingDavidlohr Bueso1-3/+11
This patch is a continuation of efforts trying to optimize find_vma(), avoiding potentially expensive rbtree walks to locate a vma upon faults. The original approach (https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/11/1/410), where the largest vma was also cached, ended up being too specific and random, thus further comparison with other approaches were needed. There are two things to consider when dealing with this, the cache hit rate and the latency of find_vma(). Improving the hit-rate does not necessarily translate in finding the vma any faster, as the overhead of any fancy caching schemes can be too high to consider. We currently cache the last used vma for the whole address space, which provides a nice optimization, reducing the total cycles in find_vma() by up to 250%, for workloads with good locality. On the other hand, this simple scheme is pretty much useless for workloads with poor locality. Analyzing ebizzy runs shows that, no matter how many threads are running, the mmap_cache hit rate is less than 2%, and in many situations below 1%. The proposed approach is to replace this scheme with a small per-thread cache, maximizing hit rates at a very low maintenance cost. Invalidations are performed by simply bumping up a 32-bit sequence number. The only expensive operation is in the rare case of a seq number overflow, where all caches that share the same address space are flushed. Upon a miss, the proposed replacement policy is based on the page number that contains the virtual address in question. Concretely, the following results are seen on an 80 core, 8 socket x86-64 box: 1) System bootup: Most programs are single threaded, so the per-thread scheme does improve ~50% hit rate by just adding a few more slots to the cache. +----------------+----------+------------------+ | caching scheme | hit-rate | cycles (billion) | +----------------+----------+------------------+ | baseline | 50.61% | 19.90 | | patched | 73.45% | 13.58 | +----------------+----------+------------------+ 2) Kernel build: This one is already pretty good with the current approach as we're dealing with good locality. +----------------+----------+------------------+ | caching scheme | hit-rate | cycles (billion) | +----------------+----------+------------------+ | baseline | 75.28% | 11.03 | | patched | 88.09% | 9.31 | +----------------+----------+------------------+ 3) Oracle 11g Data Mining (4k pages): Similar to the kernel build workload. +----------------+----------+------------------+ | caching scheme | hit-rate | cycles (billion) | +----------------+----------+------------------+ | baseline | 70.66% | 17.14 | | patched | 91.15% | 12.57 | +----------------+----------+------------------+ 4) Ebizzy: There's a fair amount of variation from run to run, but this approach always shows nearly perfect hit rates, while baseline is just about non-existent. The amounts of cycles can fluctuate between anywhere from ~60 to ~116 for the baseline scheme, but this approach reduces it considerably. For instance, with 80 threads: +----------------+----------+------------------+ | caching scheme | hit-rate | cycles (billion) | +----------------+----------+------------------+ | baseline | 1.06% | 91.54 | | patched | 99.97% | 14.18 | +----------------+----------+------------------+ [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix nommu build, per Davidlohr] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: document vmacache_valid() logic] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: attempt to untangle header files] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: add vmacache_find() BUG_ON] [hughd@google.com: add vmacache_valid_mm() (from Oleg)] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: adjust and enhance comments] Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Reviewed-by: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Tested-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-02-26KGDB: make kgdb_breakpoint() as noinlineVijaya Kumar K1-1/+1
The function kgdb_breakpoint() sets up break point at compile time by calling arch_kgdb_breakpoint(); Though this call is surrounded by wmb() barrier, the compile can still re-order the break point, because this scheduling barrier is not a code motion barrier in gcc. Making kgdb_breakpoint() as noinline solves this problem of code reording around break point instruction and also avoids problem of being called as inline function from other places More details about discussion on this can be found here http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ports.arm.kernel/269732 Signed-off-by: Vijaya Kumar K <Vijaya.Kumar@caviumnetworks.com> Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Acked-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
2014-01-25kgdb/kdb: Fix no KDB config problemMike Travis1-2/+3
Some code added to the debug_core module had KDB dependencies that it shouldn't have. Move the KDB dependent REASON back to the caller to remove the dependency in the debug core code. Update the call from the UV NMI handler to conform to the new interface. Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com> Reviewed-by: Hedi Berriche <hedi@sgi.com> Cc: Russ Anderson <rja@sgi.com> Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140114162551.318251993@asylum.americas.sgi.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-10-03kdb: Add support for external NMI handler to call KGDB/KDBMike Travis1-2/+30
This patch adds a kgdb_nmicallin() interface that can be used by external NMI handlers to call the KGDB/KDB handler. The primary need for this is for those types of NMI interrupts where all the CPUs have already received the NMI signal. Therefore no send_IPI(NMI) is required, and in fact it will cause a 2nd unhandled NMI to occur. This generates the "Dazed and Confuzed" messages. Since all the CPUs are getting the NMI at roughly the same time, it's not guaranteed that the first CPU that hits the NMI handler will manage to enter KGDB and set the dbg_master_lock before the slaves start entering. The new argument "send_ready" was added for KGDB to signal the NMI handler to release the slave CPUs for entry into KGDB. Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com> Acked-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com> Reviewed-by: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com> Reviewed-by: Hedi Berriche <hedi@sgi.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20131002151417.928886849@asylum.americas.sgi.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-04-30kgdb/sysrq: fix inconstistent help message of sysrq keyzhangwei(Jovi)1-1/+1
Currently help message of /proc/sysrq-trigger highlight its upper-case characters, like below: SysRq : HELP : loglevel(0-9) reBoot Crash terminate-all-tasks(E) memory-full-oom-kill(F) kill-all-tasks(I) ... this would confuse user trigger sysrq by upper-case character, which is inconsistent with the real lower-case character registed key. This inconsistent help message will also lead more confused when 26 upper-case letters put into use in future. This patch fix kgdb sysrq key: "debug(g)" Signed-off-by: zhangwei(Jovi) <jovi.zhangwei@huawei.com> Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-04kgdb: remove #include <linux/serial_8250.h> from kgdb.hGreg Kroah-Hartman1-0/+1
There's no reason kgdb.h itself needs to include the 8250 serial port header file. So push it down to the _very_ limited number of individual drivers that need the values in that file, and fix up the places where people really wanted serial_core.h and platform_device.h. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-10-13Merge tag 'for_linus-3.7' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-0/+18
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jwessel/kgdb Pull KGDB/KDB fixes and cleanups from Jason Wessel: "Cleanups - Clean up compile warnings in kgdboc.c and x86/kernel/kgdb.c - Add module event hooks for simplified debugging with gdb Fixes - Fix kdb to stop paging with 'q' on bta and dmesg - Fix for data that scrolls off the vga console due to line wrapping when using the kdb pager New - The debug core registers for kernel module events which allows a kernel aware gdb to automatically load symbols and break on entry to a kernel module - Allow kgdboc=kdb to setup kdb on the vga console" * tag 'for_linus-3.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jwessel/kgdb: tty/console: fix warnings in drivers/tty/serial/kgdboc.c kdb,vt_console: Fix missed data due to pager overruns kdb: Fix dmesg/bta scroll to quit with 'q' kgdboc: Accept either kbd or kdb to activate the vga + keyboard kdb shell kgdb,x86: fix warning about unused variable mips,kgdb: fix recursive page fault with CONFIG_KPROBES kgdb: Add module event hooks
2012-10-12kgdb: Add module event hooksJason Wessel1-0/+18
Allow gdb to auto load kernel modules when it is attached, which makes it trivially easy to debug module init functions or pre-set breakpoints in a kernel module that has not loaded yet. Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
2012-09-26kernel/debug: Mask KGDB NMI upon entryAnton Vorontsov1-3/+11
The new arch callback should manage NMIs that usually cause KGDB to enter. That is, not all NMIs should be enabled/disabled, but only those that issue kgdb_handle_exception(). We must mask it as serial-line interrupt can be used as an NMI, so if the original KGDB-entry cause was say a breakpoint, then every input to KDB console will cause KGDB to reenter, which we don't want. Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org> Acked-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-04-04Merge tag 'for_linus-3.4-rc2' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-29/+24
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jwessel/kgdb Pull KGDB/KDB regression fixes from Jason Wessel: - Fix a Smatch warning that appeared in the 3.4 merge window - Fix kgdb test suite with SMP for all archs without HW single stepping - Fix kgdb sw breakpoints with CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA=y limitations on x86 - Fix oops on kgdb test suite with CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA - Fix kgdb test suite with SMP for all archs with HW single stepping * tag 'for_linus-3.4-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jwessel/kgdb: x86,kgdb: Fix DEBUG_RODATA limitation using text_poke() kgdb,debug_core: pass the breakpoint struct instead of address and memory kgdbts: (2 of 2) fix single step awareness to work correctly with SMP kgdbts: (1 of 2) fix single step awareness to work correctly with SMP kgdbts: Fix kernel oops with CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA kdb: Fix smatch warning on dbg_io_ops->is_console
2012-03-29kgdb,debug_core: pass the breakpoint struct instead of address and memoryJason Wessel1-29/+24
There is extra state information that needs to be exposed in the kgdb_bpt structure for tracking how a breakpoint was installed. The debug_core only uses the the probe_kernel_write() to install breakpoints, but this is not enough for all the archs. Some arch such as x86 need to use text_poke() in order to install a breakpoint into a read only page. Passing the kgdb_bpt structure to kgdb_arch_set_breakpoint() and kgdb_arch_remove_breakpoint() allows other archs to set the type variable which indicates how the breakpoint was installed. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # >= 2.6.36 Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
2012-03-28Merge tag 'split-asm_system_h-for-linus-20120328' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-1/+0
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-asm_system Pull "Disintegrate and delete asm/system.h" from David Howells: "Here are a bunch of patches to disintegrate asm/system.h into a set of separate bits to relieve the problem of circular inclusion dependencies. I've built all the working defconfigs from all the arches that I can and made sure that they don't break. The reason for these patches is that I recently encountered a circular dependency problem that came about when I produced some patches to optimise get_order() by rewriting it to use ilog2(). This uses bitops - and on the SH arch asm/bitops.h drags in asm-generic/get_order.h by a circuituous route involving asm/system.h. The main difficulty seems to be asm/system.h. It holds a number of low level bits with no/few dependencies that are commonly used (eg. memory barriers) and a number of bits with more dependencies that aren't used in many places (eg. switch_to()). These patches break asm/system.h up into the following core pieces: (1) asm/barrier.h Move memory barriers here. This already done for MIPS and Alpha. (2) asm/switch_to.h Move switch_to() and related stuff here. (3) asm/exec.h Move arch_align_stack() here. Other process execution related bits could perhaps go here from asm/processor.h. (4) asm/cmpxchg.h Move xchg() and cmpxchg() here as they're full word atomic ops and frequently used by atomic_xchg() and atomic_cmpxchg(). (5) asm/bug.h Move die() and related bits. (6) asm/auxvec.h Move AT_VECTOR_SIZE_ARCH here. Other arch headers are created as needed on a per-arch basis." Fixed up some conflicts from other header file cleanups and moving code around that has happened in the meantime, so David's testing is somewhat weakened by that. We'll find out anything that got broken and fix it.. * tag 'split-asm_system_h-for-linus-20120328' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-asm_system: (38 commits) Delete all instances of asm/system.h Remove all #inclusions of asm/system.h Add #includes needed to permit the removal of asm/system.h Move all declarations of free_initmem() to linux/mm.h Disintegrate asm/system.h for OpenRISC Split arch_align_stack() out from asm-generic/system.h Split the switch_to() wrapper out of asm-generic/system.h Move the asm-generic/system.h xchg() implementation to asm-generic/cmpxchg.h Create asm-generic/barrier.h Make asm-generic/cmpxchg.h #include asm-generic/cmpxchg-local.h Disintegrate asm/system.h for Xtensa Disintegrate asm/system.h for Unicore32 [based on ver #3, changed by gxt] Disintegrate asm/system.h for Tile Disintegrate asm/system.h for Sparc Disintegrate asm/system.h for SH Disintegrate asm/system.h for Score Disintegrate asm/system.h for S390 Disintegrate asm/system.h for PowerPC Disintegrate asm/system.h for PA-RISC Disintegrate asm/system.h for MN10300 ...
2012-03-28Remove all #inclusions of asm/system.hDavid Howells1-1/+0
Remove all #inclusions of asm/system.h preparatory to splitting and killing it. Performed with the following command: perl -p -i -e 's!^#\s*include\s*<asm/system[.]h>.*\n!!' `grep -Irl '^#\s*include\s*<asm/system[.]h>' *` Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2012-03-22kgdb,debug_core: add the ability to control the reboot notifierJason Wessel1-0/+16
Sometimes it is desirable to stop the kernel debugger before allowing a system to reboot either with kdb or kgdb. This patch adds the ability to turn the reboot notifier on and off or enter the debugger and stop kernel execution before rebooting. It is possible to change the setting after booting the kernel with the following: echo 1 > /sys/module/debug_core/parameters/kgdbreboot It is also possible to change this setting using kdb / kgdb to manipulate the variable directly. Using KDB: mm kgdbreboot 1 Using gdb: set kgdbreboot=1 Reported-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com> Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
2012-03-22kgdb,debug-core,gdbstub: Hook the reboot notifier for debugger detachJason Wessel1-0/+17
The gdbstub and kdb should get detached if the system is rebooting. Calling gdbstub_exit() will set the proper debug core state and send a message to any debugger that is connected to correctly detach. An attached debugger will receive the exit code from include/linux/reboot.h based on SYS_HALT, SYS_REBOOT, etc... Reported-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com> Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
2011-07-26atomic: use <linux/atomic.h>Arun Sharma1-1/+1
This allows us to move duplicated code in <asm/atomic.h> (atomic_inc_not_zero() for now) to <linux/atomic.h> Signed-off-by: Arun Sharma <asharma@fb.com> Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Acked-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-03-31Fix common misspellingsLucas De Marchi1-1/+1
Fixes generated by 'codespell' and manually reviewed. Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>
2010-10-29debug_core,x86,blackfin: Clean up hw debug disable APIDongdong Deng1-13/+3
The kgdb_disable_hw_debug() was an architecture specific function for disabling all hardware breakpoints on a per cpu basis when entering the debug core. This patch will remove the weak function kdbg_disable_hw_debug() and change it into a call back which lives with the rest of hw breakpoint call backs in struct kgdb_arch. Signed-off-by: Dongdong Deng <dongdong.deng@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
2010-10-22kdb,debug_core: adjust master cpu switch logic against new debug_core lockingJason Wessel1-14/+2
The kdb shell needs to enforce switching back to the original CPU that took the exception before restoring normal kernel execution. Resuming from a different CPU than what took the original exception will cause problems with spin locks that are freed from the a different processor than had taken the lock. The special logic in dbg_cpu_switch() can go away entirely with because the state of what cpus want to be masters or slaves will remain unchanged between entry and exit of the debug_core exception context. Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
2010-10-22debug_core: refactor locking for master/slave cpusJason Wessel1-50/+55
For quite some time there have been problems with memory barriers and various races with NMI on multi processor systems using the kernel debugger. The algorithm for entering the kernel debug core and resuming kernel execution was racy and had several known edge case problems with attempting to debug something on a heavily loaded system using breakpoints that are hit repeatedly and quickly. The prior "locking" design entry worked as follows: * The atomic counter kgdb_active was used with atomic exchange in order to elect a master cpu out of all the cpus that may have taken a debug exception. * The master cpu increments all elements of passive_cpu_wait[]. * The master cpu issues the round up cpus message. * Each "slave cpu" that enters the debug core increments its own element in cpu_in_kgdb[]. * Each "slave cpu" spins on passive_cpu_wait[] until it becomes 0. * The master cpu debugs the system. The new scheme removes the two arrays of atomic counters and replaces them with 2 single counters. One counter is used to count the number of cpus waiting to become a master cpu (because one or more hit an exception). The second counter is use to indicate how many cpus have entered as slave cpus. The new entry logic works as follows: * One or more cpus enters via kgdb_handle_exception() and increments the masters_in_kgdb. Each cpu attempts to get the spin lock called dbg_master_lock. * The master cpu sets kgdb_active to the current cpu. * The master cpu takes the spinlock dbg_slave_lock. * The master cpu asks to round up all the other cpus. * Each slave cpu that is not already in kgdb_handle_exception() will enter and increment slaves_in_kgdb. Each slave will now spin try_locking on dbg_slave_lock. * The master cpu waits for the sum of masters_in_kgdb and slaves_in_kgdb to be equal to the sum of the online cpus. * The master cpu debugs the system. In the new design the kgdb_active can only be changed while holding dbg_master_lock. Stress testing has not turned up any further entry/exit races that existed in the prior locking design. The prior locking design suffered from atomic variables not being truly atomic (in the capacity as used by kgdb) along with memory barrier races. Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com> Acked-by: Dongdong Deng <dongdong.deng@windriver.com>
2010-10-22debug_core: disable hw_breakpoints on all cores in kgdb_cpu_enter()Dongdong Deng1-2/+5
The slave cpus do not have the hw breakpoints disabled upon entry to the debug_core and as a result could cause unrecoverable recursive faults on badly placed breakpoints, or get out of sync with the arch specific hw breakpoint operations. This patch addresses the problem by invoking kgdb_disable_hw_debug() earlier in kgdb_enter_cpu for each cpu that enters the debug core. The hw breakpoint dis/enable flow should be: master_debug_cpu slave_debug_cpu \ / kgdb_cpu_enter | kgdb_disable_hw_debug --> uninstall pre-enabled hw_breakpoint | do add/rm dis/enable operates to hw_breakpoints on master_debug_cpu.. | correct_hw_break --> correct/install the enabled hw_breakpoint | leave_kgdb Signed-off-by: Dongdong Deng <dongdong.deng@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
2010-10-22debug_core: stop rcu warnings on kernel resumeJason Wessel1-0/+2
When returning from the kernel debugger reset the rcu jiffies_stall value to prevent the rcu stall detector from sending NMI events which invoke a stack dump for each cpu in the system. Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
2010-10-22debug_core: move all watch dog syncs to a single functionJason Wessel1-6/+9
Move the various clock and watch dog syncs to a single function in advance of adding another sync for the rcu stall detector. Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
2010-08-19Input: sysrq - drop tty argument from sysrq ops handlersDmitry Torokhov1-1/+1
Noone is using tty argument so let's get rid of it. Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Acked-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
2010-08-05Merge branch 'for_linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-0/+2
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jwessel/linux-2.6-kgdb * 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jwessel/linux-2.6-kgdb: debug_core,kdb: fix crash when arch does not have single step kgdb,x86: use macro HBP_NUM to replace magic number 4 kgdb,mips: remove unused kgdb_cpu_doing_single_step operations mm,kdb,kgdb: Add a debug reference for the kdb kmap usage KGDB: Remove set but unused newPC ftrace,kdb: Allow dumping a specific cpu's buffer with ftdump ftrace,kdb: Extend kdb to be able to dump the ftrace buffer kgdb,powerpc: Replace hardcoded offset by BREAK_INSTR_SIZE arm,kgdb: Add ability to trap into debugger on notify_die gdbstub: do not directly use dbg_reg_def[] in gdb_cmd_reg_set() gdbstub: Implement gdbserial 'p' and 'P' packets kgdb,arm: Individual register get/set for arm kgdb,mips: Individual register get/set for mips kgdb,x86: Individual register get/set for x86 kgdb,kdb: individual register set and and get API gdbstub: Optimize kgdb's "thread:" response for the gdb serial protocol kgdb: remove custom hex_to_bin()implementation
2010-08-05debug_core,kdb: fix crash when arch does not have single stepJason Wessel1-0/+2
When an arch such as mips and microblaze does not implement either HW or software single stepping the debug core should re-enter kdb. The kdb code will properly ignore the single step operation. Attempting to single step the kernel without software or hardware support causes unpredictable kernel crashes. Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
2010-08-04Merge branch 'master' into for-nextJiri Kosina1-1/+1
2010-07-21debug_core,kdb: fix kgdb_connected bit set in the wrong placeJason Wessel1-1/+1
Immediately following an exit from the kdb shell the kgdb_connected variable should be set to zero, unless there are breakpoints planted. If the kgdb_connected variable is not zeroed out with kdb, it is impossible to turn off kdb. This patch is merely a work around for now, the real fix will check for the breakpoints. Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
2010-07-19update email addressPavel Machek1-1/+1
pavel@suse.cz no longer works, replace it with working address. Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2010-05-20x86, kgdb, init: Add early and late debug statesJason Wessel1-0/+16
The kernel debugger can operate well before mm_init(), but the x86 hardware breakpoint code which uses the perf api requires that the kernel allocators are initialized. This means the kernel debug core needs to provide an optional arch specific call back to allow the initialization functions to run after the kernel has been further initialized. The kdb shell already had a similar restriction with an early initialization and late initialization. The kdb_init() was moved into the debug core's version of the late init which is called dbg_late_init(); CC: kgdb-bugreport@lists.sourceforge.net Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
2010-05-20kdb,debug_core: Allow the debug core to receive a panic notificationJason Wessel1-0/+19
It is highly desirable to trap into kdb on panic. The debug core will attempt to register as the first in line for the panic notifier. CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> CC: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> CC: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
2010-05-20debug_core,kdb: Allow the debug core to process a recursive debug entryJason Wessel1-0/+7
This allows kdb to debug a crash with in the kms code with a single level recursive re-entry. Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
2010-05-20kgdb: Add the ability to schedule a breakpoint via a taskletJason Wessel1-0/+26
Some kgdb I/O modules require the ability to create a breakpoint tasklet, such as kgdboc and external modules such as kgdboe. The breakpoint tasklet is used as an asynchronous entry point into the debugger which will have a different function scope than the current execution path where it might not be safe to have an inline breakpoint. This is true of some of the kgdb I/O drivers which share code with kgdb and rest of the kernel users. Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
2010-05-20x86,kgdb: Add low level debug hookJason Wessel1-1/+1
The only way the debugger can handle a trap in inside rcu_lock, notify_die, or atomic_notifier_call_chain without a triple fault is to have a low level "first opportunity handler" in the int3 exception handler. Generally this will be something the vast majority of folks will not need, but for those who need it, it is added as a kernel .config option called KGDB_LOW_LEVEL_TRAP. CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> CC: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> CC: x86@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
2010-05-20kgdb: remove post_primary_code referencesJason Wessel1-8/+0
Remove all the references to the kgdb_post_primary_code. This function serves no useful purpose because you can obtain the same information from the "struct kgdb_state *ks" from with in the debugger, if for some reason you want the data. Also remove the unintentional duplicate assignment for ks->ex_vector. Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
2010-05-20kgdb: gdb "monitor" -> kdb passthroughJason Wessel1-1/+1
One of the driving forces behind integrating another front end (kdb) to the debug core is to allow front end commands to be accessible via gdb's monitor command. It is true that you could write gdb macros to get certain data, but you may want to just use gdb to access the commands that are available in the kdb front end. This patch implements the Rcmd gdb stub packet. In gdb you access this with the "monitor" command. For instance you could type "monitor help", "monitor lsmod" or "monitor ps A" etc... There is no error checking or command restrictions on what you can and cannot access at this point. Doing something like trying to set breakpoints with the monitor command is going to cause nothing but problems. Perhaps in the future only the commands that are actually known to work with the gdb monitor command will be available. Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
2010-05-20kgdb,8250,pl011: Return immediately from console pollJason Wessel1-0/+2
The design of the kdb shell requires that every device that can provide input to kdb have a polling routine that exits immediately if there is no character available. This is required in order to get the page scrolling mechanism working. Changing the kernel debugger I/O API to require all polling character routines to exit immediately if there is no data allows the kernel debugger to process multiple input channels. NO_POLL_CHAR will be the return code to the polling routine when ever there is no character available. CC: linux-serial@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
2010-05-20kgdb: core changes to support kdbJason Wessel1-17/+90
These are the minimum changes to the kgdb core in order to enable an API to connect a new front end (kdb) to the debug core. This patch introduces the dbg_kdb_mode variable controls where the user level I/O is routed. It will be routed to the gdbstub (kgdb) or to the kdb front end which is a simple shell available over the kgdboc connection. You can switch back and forth between kdb or the gdb stub mode of operation dynamically. From gdb stub mode you can blindly type "$3#33", or from the kdb mode you can enter "kgdb" to switch to the gdb stub. The logic in the debug core depends on kdb to look for the typical gdb connection sequences and return immediately with KGDB_PASS_EVENT if a gdb serial command sequence is detected. That should allow a reasonably seamless transition between kdb -> gdb without leaving the kernel exception state. The two gdb serial queries that kdb is responsible for detecting are the "?" and "qSupported" packets. CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com> Acked-by: Martin Hicks <mort@sgi.com>
2010-05-20Separate the gdbstub from the debug coreJason Wessel1-955/+39
Split the former kernel/kgdb.c into debug_core.c which contains the kernel debugger exception logic and to the gdbstub.c which contains the logic for allowing gdb to talk to the debug core. This also created a private include file called debug_core.h which contains all the definitions to glue the debug_core to any other debugger connections. CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
2010-05-20Move kernel/kgdb.c to kernel/debug/debug_core.cJason Wessel1-0/+1764
Move kgdb.c in preparation to separate the gdbstub from the debug core and exception handling. CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>