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Dongdong Deng d7ba979d45 debug_core,x86,blackfin: Clean up hw debug disable API
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>
2010-10-29 13:14:41 -05:00
Jason Wessel 495363d380 kdb,debug_core: adjust master cpu switch logic against new debug_core locking
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>
2010-10-22 15:34:13 -05:00
Jason Wessel dfee3a7b92 debug_core: refactor locking for master/slave cpus
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>
2010-10-22 15:34:13 -05:00
Dongdong Deng c1bb9a9c19 debug_core: disable hw_breakpoints on all cores in kgdb_cpu_enter()
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>
2010-10-22 15:34:12 -05:00
Jason Wessel fb70b5888b debug_core: stop rcu warnings on kernel resume
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>
2010-10-22 15:34:10 -05:00
Jason Wessel 16cdc628c3 debug_core: move all watch dog syncs to a single function
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>
2010-10-22 15:34:10 -05:00
Dmitry Torokhov 1495cc9df4 Input: sysrq - drop tty argument from sysrq ops handlers
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>
2010-08-19 22:07:06 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 89a6c8cb9e Merge branch 'for_linus' of 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
2010-08-05 15:59:48 -07:00
Jason Wessel 3fa43aba08 debug_core,kdb: fix crash when arch does not have single step
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>
2010-08-05 09:22:25 -05:00
Jiri Kosina d790d4d583 Merge branch 'master' into for-next 2010-08-04 15:14:38 +02:00
Jason Wessel b0679c63db debug_core,kdb: fix kgdb_connected bit set in the wrong place
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>
2010-07-21 19:27:07 -05:00
Pavel Machek a2531293db update email address
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>
2010-07-19 10:56:54 +02:00
Jason Wessel 0b4b3827db x86, kgdb, init: Add early and late debug states
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>
2010-05-20 21:04:29 -05:00
Jason Wessel 4402c153cb kdb,debug_core: Allow the debug core to receive a panic notification
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>
2010-05-20 21:04:28 -05:00
Jason Wessel 6d90634076 debug_core,kdb: Allow the debug core to process a recursive debug entry
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>
2010-05-20 21:04:27 -05:00
Jason Wessel 1cee5e35f1 kgdb: Add the ability to schedule a breakpoint via a tasklet
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>
2010-05-20 21:04:26 -05:00
Jason Wessel f503b5ae53 x86,kgdb: Add low level debug hook
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>
2010-05-20 21:04:25 -05:00
Jason Wessel 98ec1878ca kgdb: remove post_primary_code references
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>
2010-05-20 21:04:25 -05:00
Jason Wessel a0de055cf6 kgdb: gdb "monitor" -> kdb passthrough
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>
2010-05-20 21:04:24 -05:00
Jason Wessel f5316b4aea kgdb,8250,pl011: Return immediately from console poll
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>
2010-05-20 21:04:22 -05:00
Jason Wessel dcc7871128 kgdb: core changes to support kdb
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>
2010-05-20 21:04:21 -05:00
Jason Wessel 53197fc495 Separate the gdbstub from the debug core
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>
2010-05-20 21:04:19 -05:00
Jason Wessel c433820971 Move kernel/kgdb.c to kernel/debug/debug_core.c
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>
2010-05-20 21:04:18 -05:00