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>
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>
Fix the following sparse warnings:
kdb_main.c:328:5: warning: symbol 'kdbgetu64arg' was not declared. Should it be static?
kgdboc.c:246:12: warning: symbol 'kgdboc_early_init' was not declared. Should it be static?
kgdb.c:652:26: warning: incorrect type in argument 1 (different address spaces)
kgdb.c:652:26: expected void const *ptr
kgdb.c:652:26: got struct perf_event *[noderef] <asn:3>*pev
The one in kgdb.c required the (void * __force) because of the return
code from register_wide_hw_breakpoint looking like:
return (void __percpu __force *)ERR_PTR(err);
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Nothing should try to use kdb_commands directly as sometimes it is
null. Instead, use the for_each_kdbcmd() iterator.
This particular problem dates back to the initial kdb merge (2.6.35),
but at that point nothing was dynamically unregistering commands from
the kdb shell.
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
In order to allow kernel modules to dynamically add a command to the
kdb shell the kdb_register, kdb_register_repeat, kdb_unregister, and
kdb_printf need to be exported as GPL symbols.
Any kernel module that adds a dynamic kdb shell function should only
need to include linux/kdb.h.
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
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>
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>
* 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
gcc-4.6: kernel/*: Fix unused but set warnings
mutex: Fix annotations to include it in kernel-locking docbook
pid: make setpgid() system call use RCU read-side critical section
MAINTAINERS: Add RCU's public git tree
No real bugs I believe, just some dead code.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: andi@firstfloor.org
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Sysrq operations do not accept tty argument anymore so no need to pass
it to us.
[Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>: fix build breakage in drm code
caused by sysrq using bool but not including linux/types.h]
[Sachin Sant <sachinp@in.ibm.com>: fix build breakage in s390 keyboadr
driver]
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>
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>
If CONFIG_KGDB_KDB is set and CONFIG_KALLSYMS is not set the kernel
will fail to build with the error:
kernel/built-in.o: In function `kallsyms_symbol_next':
kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_support.c:237: undefined reference to `kdb_walk_kallsyms'
kernel/built-in.o: In function `kallsyms_symbol_complete':
kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_support.c:193: undefined reference to `kdb_walk_kallsyms'
The kdb_walk_kallsyms needs a #ifdef proper header to match the C
implementation. This patch also fixes the compiler warnings in
kdb_support.c when compiling without CONFIG_KALLSYMS set. The
compiler warnings are a result of the kallsyms_lookup() macro not
initializing the two of the pass by reference variables.
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Reported-by: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
* 'timers-timekeeping-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
um: Fix read_persistent_clock fallout
kgdb: Do not access xtime directly
powerpc: Clean up obsolete code relating to decrementer and timebase
powerpc: Rework VDSO gettimeofday to prevent time going backwards
clocksource: Add __clocksource_updatefreq_hz/khz methods
x86: Convert common clocksources to use clocksource_register_hz/khz
timekeeping: Make xtime and wall_to_monotonic static
hrtimer: Cleanup direct access to wall_to_monotonic
um: Convert to use read_persistent_clock
timkeeping: Fix update_vsyscall to provide wall_to_monotonic offset
powerpc: Cleanup xtime usage
powerpc: Simplify update_vsyscall
time: Kill off CONFIG_GENERIC_TIME
time: Implement timespec_add
x86: Fix vtime/file timestamp inconsistencies
Trivial conflicts in Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
Much less trivial conflicts in arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c resolved as
per Thomas' earlier merge commit 47916be4e2 ("Merge branch
'powerpc.cherry-picks' into timers/clocksource")
* 'kms-merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jwessel/linux-2.6-kgdb:
kgdb,docs: Update the kgdb docs to include kms
drm_fb_helper: Preserve capability to use atomic kms
i915: when kgdb is active display compression should be off
drm/i915: use new fb debug hooks
drm: add KGDB/KDB support
fb: add hooks to handle KDB enter/exit
kgdboc: Add call backs to allow kernel mode switching
vt,console,kdb: automatically set kdb LINES variable
vt,console,kdb: implement atomic console enter/leave functions
* '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
The kernel console interface stores the number of lines it is
configured to use. The kdb debugger can greatly benefit by knowing how
many lines there are on the console for the pager functionality
without having the end user compile in the setting or have to
repeatedly change it at run time.
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
CC: David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
CC: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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>
Presently the usable registers definitions on x86 are not contiguous
for kgdb. The x86 kgdb uses a case statement for the sparse register
accesses. The array which defines the registers (dbg_reg_def) should
not be used directly in order to safely work with sparse register
definitions.
Specifically there was a problem when gdb accesses ORIG_AX, which is
accessed only through the case statement.
This patch encodes register memory using the size information provided
from the debugger which avoids the need to look up the size of the
register. The dbg_set_reg() function always further validates the
inputs from the debugger.
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Dongdong Deng <dongdong.deng@windriver.com>
The gdbserial 'p' and 'P' packets allow gdb to individually get and
set registers instead of querying for all the available registers.
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
The kdb shell specification includes the ability to get and set
architecture specific registers by name.
For the time being individual register get and set will be implemented
on a per architecture basis. If an architecture defines
DBG_MAX_REG_NUM > 0 then kdb and the gdbstub will use the capability
for individually getting and setting architecture specific registers.
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
The gdb debugger understands how to parse short versions of the thread
reference string as long as the bytes are paired in sets of two
characters. The kgdb implementation was always sending 8 leading
zeros which could be omitted, and further optimized in the case of
non-negative thread numbers. The negative numbers are used to
reference a specific cpu in the case of kgdb.
An example of the previous i386 stop packet looks like:
T05thread:00000000000003bb;
New stop packet response:
T05thread:03bb;
The previous ThreadInfo response looks like:
m00000000fffffffe,0000000000000001,0000000000000002,0000000000000003,0000000000000004,0000000000000005,0000000000000006,0000000000000007,000000000000000c,0000000000000088,000000000000008a,000000000000008b,000000000000008c,000000000000008d,000000000000008e,00000000000000d4,00000000000000d5,00000000000000dd
New ThreadInfo response:
mfffffffe,01,02,03,04,05,06,07,0c,88,8a,8b,8c,8d,8e,d4,d5,dd
A few bytes saved means better response time when using kgdb over a
serial line.
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
The kdb code should not toggle the sysrq state in case an end user
wants to try and resume the normal kernel execution.
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Acked-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
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>
In the process of merging kdb to the mainline, the kdb lsmod command
stopped printing the base load address of kernel modules. This is
needed for using kdb in conjunction with external tools such as gdb.
Simply restore the functionality by adding a kdb_printf for the base
load address of the kernel modules.
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
The gdbserial protocol handler should return an empty packet instead
of an error string when ever it responds to a command it does not
implement.
The problem cases come from a debugger client sending
qTBuffer, qTStatus, qSearch, qSupported.
The incorrect response from the gdbstub leads the debugger clients to
not function correctly. Recent versions of gdb will not detach correctly as a result of this behavior.
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Dongdong Deng <dongdong.deng@windriver.com>
Without this patch the "ll" linked-list traversal command won't
terminate when you hit q/Q.
Signed-off-by: Martin Hicks <mort@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
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>
Linus changed the structure, and luckily this didn't compile any more.
Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Cc: Martin Hicks <mort@sgi.com>
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>
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>
Certain calls from the kdb shell will call out to printk(), and any of
these calls should get vectored back to the kdb_printf() so that the
kdb pager and processing can be used, as well as to properly channel
I/O to the polled I/O devices.
CC: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Acked-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
If kdb is open on a serial port that is not actually a console make
sure to call the poll routines to emit and receive characters.
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Acked-by: Martin Hicks <mort@sgi.com>
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>
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>
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>
This patch adds in the kdb PS/2 keyboard driver. This was mostly a
direct port from the original kdb where I cleaned up the code against
checkpatch.pl and added the glue to stitch it into kgdb.
This patch also enables early kdb debug via kgdbwait and the keyboard.
All the access to configure kdb using either a serial console or the
keyboard is done via kgdboc.
If you want to use only the keyboard and want to break in early you
would add to your kernel command arguments:
kgdboc=kbd kgdbwait
If you wanted serial and or the keyboard access you could use:
kgdboc=kbd,ttyS0
You can also configure kgdboc as a kernel module or at run time with
the sysfs where you can activate and deactivate kgdb.
Turn it on:
echo kbd,ttyS0 > /sys/module/kgdboc/parameters/kgdboc
Turn it off:
echo "" > /sys/module/kgdboc/parameters/kgdboc
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Reviewed-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
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>
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>
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>
This patch contains only the kdb core. Because the change set was
large, it was split. The next patch in the series includes the
instrumentation into the core kernel which are mainly helper functions
for kdb.
This work is directly derived from kdb v4.4 found at:
ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/kdb/download/v4.4/
The kdb internals have been re-organized to make them mostly platform
independent and to connect everything to the debug core which is used by
gdbstub (which has long been known as kgdb).
The original version of kdb was 58,000 lines worth of changes to
support x86. From that implementation only the kdb shell, and basic
commands for memory access, runcontrol, lsmod, and dmesg where carried
forward.
This is a generic implementation which aims to cover all the current
architectures using the kgdb core: ppc, arm, x86, mips, sparc, sh and
blackfin. More archictectures can be added by implementing the
architecture specific kgdb functions.
[mort@sgi.com: Compile fix with hugepages enabled]
[mort@sgi.com: Clean breakpoint code renaming kdba_ -> kdb_]
[mort@sgi.com: fix new line after printing registers]
[mort@sgi.com: Remove the concept of global vs. local breakpoints]
[mort@sgi.com: Rework kdb_si_swapinfo to use more generic name]
[mort@sgi.com: fix the information dump macros, remove 'arch' from the names]
[sfr@canb.auug.org.au: include fixup to include linux/slab.h]
CC: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Hicks <mort@sgi.com>
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>
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>
Jason Wessel