[RFC v2] powerpc: xmon: Add address lookup for percpu symbols

Boqun Feng boqun.feng at gmail.com
Tue Nov 22 20:20:09 AEDT 2016


Currently, in xmon, there is no obvious way to get an address for a
percpu symbol for a particular cpu. Having such an ability would be good
for debugging the system when percpu variables got involved.

Therefore, this patch introduces a new xmon command "lp" to lookup the
address for percpu symbols. Usage of "lp" is similar to "ls", except
that we could add a cpu number to choose the variable of which cpu we
want to lookup. If no cpu number is given, lookup for current cpu.

Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng at gmail.com>
---
v1 --> v2:

o	Using per_cpu_ptr() and this_cpu_ptr() instead of
	per_cpu_offset() and my_cpu_offset, because the latter
	are undefined on !SMP kernel.

o	Only print the address of percpu symbols, i.e. symbols
	in [__per_cpu_start, __per_cpu_end)

 arch/powerpc/xmon/xmon.c | 35 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 34 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/xmon/xmon.c b/arch/powerpc/xmon/xmon.c
index 760545519a0b..2747c94400a2 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/xmon/xmon.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/xmon/xmon.c
@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@
 
 #include <asm/opal.h>
 #include <asm/firmware.h>
+#include <asm/sections.h>
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_PPC64
 #include <asm/hvcall.h>
@@ -229,6 +230,7 @@ Commands:\n\
   f	flush cache\n\
   la	lookup symbol+offset of specified address\n\
   ls	lookup address of specified symbol\n\
+  lp s [#]	lookup address of percpu symbol s for current cpu, or cpu #\n\
   m	examine/change memory\n\
   mm	move a block of memory\n\
   ms	set a block of memory\n\
@@ -2943,7 +2945,8 @@ static void
 symbol_lookup(void)
 {
 	int type = inchar();
-	unsigned long addr;
+	unsigned long addr, cpu;
+	void __percpu *ptr = NULL;
 	static char tmp[64];
 
 	switch (type) {
@@ -2967,6 +2970,36 @@ symbol_lookup(void)
 		catch_memory_errors = 0;
 		termch = 0;
 		break;
+	case 'p':
+		getstring(tmp, 64);
+		if (setjmp(bus_error_jmp) == 0) {
+			catch_memory_errors = 1;
+			sync();
+			ptr = (void __percpu *)kallsyms_lookup_name(tmp);
+			sync();
+		}
+
+		if (ptr && ptr >= (void __percpu *)__per_cpu_start
+			&& ptr < (void __percpu *)__per_cpu_end) {
+
+			if (scanhex(&cpu) && cpu < num_possible_cpus())
+				addr = (unsigned long)per_cpu_ptr(ptr, cpu);
+			else {
+				cpu = raw_smp_processor_id();
+				addr = (unsigned long)this_cpu_ptr(ptr);
+			}
+
+			printf("%s for cpu 0x%lx: %lx\n", tmp, cpu, addr);
+
+		} else {
+			printf("Percpu symbol '%s' not found.\n", tmp);
+		}
+
+
+
+		catch_memory_errors = 0;
+		termch = 0;
+		break;
 	}
 }
 
-- 
2.10.1



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