[Patch 0/4] PPC64-HWBKPT: Hardware Breakpoint interfaces - ver XXI
K.Prasad
prasad at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Tue May 25 19:13:14 EST 2010
Hi All,
Please find a new version of the hw-breakpoint patchset with
changes as described below.
The patchset, passes when tested against breakpoints caused by user-space
instructions but fails against kernel-space instructions (as a result of
emulate_step() failure). They should begin to work fine with further
enhancements to emulate_step().
Changelog - ver XXI
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(Version XIX: linuxppc-dev ref:20100524103136.GA8131 at in.ibm.com)
- Decision to emulate an instruction is now based on whether the causative
instruction is in user_mode() or not.
- Breakpoints don't have to be cleared during sigreturn. A 'double-hit' on
hw_breakpoint_handler() is harmless for non-ptrace instructions.
- Minor changes to enhance code brevity.
Kindly let me know your comments.
Thanks,
K.Prasad
Changelog - ver XX
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(Version XIX: linuxppc-dev ref: 20100524040137.GA20873 at in.ibm.com)
- Non task-bound breakpoints will only be emulated. Breakpoint will be
unregistered with a warning if emulation fails.
Changelog - ver XIX
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(Version XVIII: linuxppc-dev ref: 20100512033055.GA6384 at in.ibm.com)
- Increased coverage of breakpoints during concurrent alignment_exception
and signal handling (which previously had 'blind-spots').
- Support for kernel-thread breakpoints and kernel-space breakpoints inside the
context of a user-space process.
- Patches re-based to commit f4b87dee923342505e1ddba8d34ce9de33e75050, thereby
necessitating minor changes to arch_validate_hwbkpt_settings().
Changelog - ver XVIII
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(Version XVII: linuxppc-dev ref: 20100414034340.GA6571 at in.ibm.com)
- Slight code restructuring for brevity and coding-style corrections.
- emulate_single_step() now notifies DIE_SSTEP to registered handlers;
causes single_step_dabr_instruction() to be invoked after alignment_exception.
- hw-breakpoint restoration variables are cleaned-up before unregistration
through arch_unregister_hw_breakpoint().
- SIGTRAP is no longer generated for non-ptrace user-space breakpoints.
Changelog - ver XVII
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(Version XVI: linuxppc-dev ref: 20100330095809.GA14403 at in.ibm.com)
- CONFIG_HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT is now used to define the scope of the new code
(in lieu of CONFIG_PPC_BOOK3S_64).
- CONFIG_HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT is now dependant upon CONFIG_PERF_EVENTS and
CONFIG_PPC_BOOK3S_64 (to overcome build failures under certain configs).
- Included a target in arch/powerpc/lib/Makefile to build sstep.o when
HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT.
- Added a dummy definition for hw_breakpoint_disable() when !HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT.
- Tested builds under defconfigs for ppc64, cell and g5 (found no patch induced
failures).
Changelog - ver XVI
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(Version XV: linuxppc-dev ref: 20100323140639.GA21836 at in.ibm.com)
- Used a new config option CONFIG_PPC_BOOK3S_64 (in lieu of
CONFIG_PPC64/CPU_FTR_HAS_DABR) to limit the scope of the new code.
- Disabled breakpoints before kexec of the machine using hw_breakpoint_disable().
- Minor optimisation in exception-64s.S to check for data breakpoint exceptions
in DSISR finally (after check for other causes) + changes in code comments and
representation of DSISR_DABRMATCH constant.
- Rebased to commit ae6be51ed01d6c4aaf249a207b4434bc7785853b of linux-2.6.
Changelog - ver XV
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(Version XIV: linuxppc-dev ref: 20100308181232.GA3406 at in.ibm.com)
- Additional patch to disable interrupts during data breakpoint exception
handling.
- Moved HBP_NUM definition to cputable.h under a new CPU_FTR definition
(CPU_FTR_HAS_DABR).
- Filtering of extraneous exceptions (due to accesses outside symbol length) is
by-passed for ptrace requests.
- Removed flush_ptrace_hw_breakpoint() from __switch_to() due to incorrect
coding placement.
- Changes to code comments as per community reviews for previous version.
- Minor coding-style changes in hw_breakpoint.c as per review comments.
- Re-based to commit ae6be51ed01d6c4aaf249a207b4434bc7785853b of linux-2.6
Changelog - ver XIV
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(Version XIII: linuxppc-dev ref: 20100215055605.GB3670 at in.ibm.com)
- Removed the 'name' field from 'struct arch_hw_breakpoint'.
- All callback invocations through bp->overflow_handler() are replaced with
perf_bp_event().
- Removed the check for pre-existing single-stepping mode in
hw_breakpoint_handler() as this check is unreliable while in kernel-space.
Side effect of this change is the non-triggering of hw-breakpoints while
single-stepping kernel through KGDB or Xmon.
- Minor code-cleanups and addition of comments in hw_breakpoint_handler() and
single_step_dabr_instruction().
- Re-based to commit 25cf84cf377c0aae5dbcf937ea89bc7893db5176 of linux-2.6
Changelog - ver XIII
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(Version XII: linuxppc-dev ref: 20100121084640.GA3252 at in.ibm.com)
- Fixed a bug for user-space breakpoints (triggered following the failure of a
breakpoint request).
- Re-based on commit 724e6d3fe8003c3f60bf404bf22e4e331327c596 of linux-2.6
Changelog - ver XII
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(Version XI: linuxppc-dev ref: 20100119091234.GA9971 at in.ibm.com)
- Unset MSR_SE only if kernel was not previously in single-step mode.
- Pre-emption is now enabled before returning from the hw-breakpoint exception
handler.
- Variables to track the source of single-step exception (breakpoint from kernel,
user-space vs single-stepping due to other requests) are added.
- Extraneous hw-breakpoint exceptions (due to memory accesses lying outside
monitored symbol length) is now done for both kernel and user-space
(previously only user-space).
- single_step_dabr_instruction() now returns NOTIFY_DONE if kernel was in
single-step mode even before the hw-breakpoint. This enables other users of
single-step mode to be notified of the exception.
- User-space instructions are not emulated from kernel-space, they are instead
single-stepped.
Changelog - ver XI
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(Version X: linuxppc-dev ref: 20091211160144.GA23156 at in.ibm.com)
- Conditionally unset MSR_SE in the single-step handler
- Added comments to explain the duration and need for pre-emption
disable following hw-breakpoint exception.
Changelog - ver X
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- Re-write the PPC64 patches for the new implementation of hw-breakpoints that
uses the perf-layer.
- Rebased to commit 7622fc234190a37d4e9fe3ed944a2b61a63fca03 of -tip.
Changelog - ver IX
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- Invocation of user-defined callback will be 'trigger-after-execute' (except
for ptrace).
- Creation of a new global per-CPU breakpoint structure to help invocation of
user-defined callback from single-step handler.
(Changes made now)
- Validation before registration will fail only if the address does not match
the kernel symbol's (if specified) resolved address
(through kallsyms_lookup_name()).
- 'symbolsize' value is expected to within the range contained by the symbol's
starting address and the end of a double-word boundary (8 Bytes).
- PPC64's arch-dependant code is now aware of 'cpumask' in 'struct hw_breakpoint'
and can accomodate requests for a subset of CPUs in the system.
- Introduced arch_disable_hw_breakpoint() required for
<enable><disable>_hw_breakpoint() APIs.
Changelog - ver VIII
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- Reverting changes to allow one-shot breakpoints only for ptrace requests.
- Minor changes in sanity checking in arch_validate_hwbkpt_settings().
- put_cpu_no_resched() is no longer available. Converted to put_cpu().
Changelog - ver VII
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- Allow the one-shot behaviour for exception handlers to be defined by the user.
A new 'is_one_shot' flag is added to 'struct arch_hw_breakpoint'.
Changelog - ver VI
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The task of identifying 'genuine' breakpoint exceptions from those caused by
'out-of-range' accesses turned out to be more tricky than originally thought.
Some changes to this effect were made in version IV of this patchset, but they
were not sufficient for user-space. Basically the breakpoint address received
through ptrace is always aligned to 8-bytes since ptrace receives an encoded
'data' (consisting of address | translation_enable | bkpt_type), and the size of
the symbol is not known. However for kernel-space addresses, the symbol-size can
be determined using kallsyms_lookup_size_offset() and this is used to check if
DAR (in the exception context) is
'bkpt_address <= DAR <= (bkpt_address + symbol_size)', failing which we conclude
it as a stray exception.
The following changes are made to enable check:
- Addition of a symbolsize field in 'struct arch_hw_breakpoint' field.
- Store the size of the 'watched' kernel symbol into 'symbolsize' field in
arch_store_info(0 routine.
- Verify if the above described condition is true when is_one_shot is FALSE in
hw_breakpoint_handler().
Changelog - ver V
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- Breakpoint requests from ptrace (for user-space) are designed to be one-shot
in PPC64. The patch contains changes to retain this behaviour by returning early
in hw_breakpoint_handler() [without re-initialising DABR] and unregistering the
user-space request in ptrace_triggered(). It is safe to make a
unregister_user_hw_breakpoint() call from the breakpoint exception context
[through ptrace_triggered()] without giving rise to circular locking-dependancy.
This is because there can be no kernel code running on the CPU (which received
the exception) with the same spinlock held.
- Minor change in 'type' member of 'struct arch_hw_breakpoint' from u8 to 'int'.
Changelog - ver IV
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- While DABR register requires double-word (8 bytes) aligned addresses, i.e.
the breakpoint is active over a range of 8 bytes, PPC64 allows byte-level
addressability. This may lead to stray exceptions which have to be ignored in
hw_breakpoint_handler(), when DAR != (Breakpoint request address). However DABR
will be populated with the requested breakpoint address aligned to the previous
double-word address. The code is now modified to store user-requested address
in 'bp->info.address' but update the DABR with a double-word aligned address.
- Please note that the Data Breakpoint facility in Xmon is broken as of 2.6.29
and the same has not been integrated into this facility as described in Ver I.
Changelog - ver III
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- Patches are based on commit 08f16e060bf54bdc34f800ed8b5362cdeda75d8b of -tip
tree.
- The declarations in arch/powerpc/include/asm/hw_breakpoint.h are done only if
CONFIG_PPC64 is defined. This eliminates the need to conditionally include this
header file.
- load_debug_registers() is done in start_secondary() i.e. during CPU
initialisation.
- arch_check_va_<> routines in hw_breakpoint.c are now replaced with a much
simpler is_kernel_addr() check in arch_validate_hwbkpt_settings()
- Return code of hw_breakpoint_handler() when triggered due to Lazy debug
register switching is now changed to NOTIFY_STOP.
- The ptrace code no longer sets the TIF_DEBUG task flag as it is proposed to
be done in register_user_hw_breakpoint() routine.
- hw_breakpoint_handler() is now modified to use hbp_kernel_pos value to
determine if the trigger was a user/kernel space address. The DAR register
value is checked with the address stored in 'struct hw_breakpoint' to avoid
handling of exceptions that belong to kprobe/Xmon.
Changelog - ver II
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- Split the monolithic patch into six logical patches
- Changed the signature of arch_check_va_in_<user><kernel>space functions. They
are now marked static.
- HB_NUM is now called as HBP_NUM (to preserve a consistent short-name
convention)
- Introduced hw_breakpoint_disable() and changes to kexec code to disable
breakpoints before a reboot.
- Minor changes in ptrace code to use macro-defined constants instead of
numbers.
- Introduced a new constant definition INSTRUCTION_LEN in reg.h
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