[PATCH v7 1/5] powerpc: Allow clearing and restoring registers independent of saved breakpoint state

Jordan Niethe jniethe5 at gmail.com
Wed Nov 10 11:37:13 AEDT 2021


For the coming temporary mm used for instruction patching, the
breakpoint registers need to be cleared to prevent them from
accidentally being triggered. As soon as the patching is done, the
breakpoints will be restored. The breakpoint state is stored in the per
cpu variable current_brk[]. Add a pause_breakpoints() function which will
clear the breakpoint registers without touching the state in
current_bkr[]. Add a pair function unpause_breakpoints() which will move
the state in current_brk[] back to the registers.

Signed-off-by: Jordan Niethe <jniethe5 at gmail.com>
---
v7: New to series
---
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/debug.h |  2 ++
 arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c    | 36 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
 2 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/debug.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/debug.h
index 86a14736c76c..83f2dc3785e8 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/debug.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/debug.h
@@ -46,6 +46,8 @@ static inline int debugger_fault_handler(struct pt_regs *regs) { return 0; }
 #endif
 
 void __set_breakpoint(int nr, struct arch_hw_breakpoint *brk);
+void pause_breakpoints(void);
+void unpause_breakpoints(void);
 bool ppc_breakpoint_available(void);
 #ifdef CONFIG_PPC_ADV_DEBUG_REGS
 extern void do_send_trap(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long address,
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c
index 406d7ee9e322..22ed72430683 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c
@@ -688,6 +688,7 @@ DEFINE_INTERRUPT_HANDLER(do_break)
 
 static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct arch_hw_breakpoint, current_brk[HBP_NUM_MAX]);
 
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_PPC_ADV_DEBUG_REGS
 /*
  * Set the debug registers back to their default "safe" values.
@@ -865,10 +866,8 @@ static inline int set_breakpoint_8xx(struct arch_hw_breakpoint *brk)
 	return 0;
 }
 
-void __set_breakpoint(int nr, struct arch_hw_breakpoint *brk)
+static void ____set_breakpoint(int nr, struct arch_hw_breakpoint *brk)
 {
-	memcpy(this_cpu_ptr(&current_brk[nr]), brk, sizeof(*brk));
-
 	if (dawr_enabled())
 		// Power8 or later
 		set_dawr(nr, brk);
@@ -882,6 +881,12 @@ void __set_breakpoint(int nr, struct arch_hw_breakpoint *brk)
 		WARN_ON_ONCE(1);
 }
 
+void __set_breakpoint(int nr, struct arch_hw_breakpoint *brk)
+{
+	memcpy(this_cpu_ptr(&current_brk[nr]), brk, sizeof(*brk));
+	____set_breakpoint(nr, brk);
+}
+
 /* Check if we have DAWR or DABR hardware */
 bool ppc_breakpoint_available(void)
 {
@@ -894,6 +899,31 @@ bool ppc_breakpoint_available(void)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ppc_breakpoint_available);
 
+/* Disable the breakpoint in hardware without touching current_brk[] */
+void pause_breakpoints(void)
+{
+	struct arch_hw_breakpoint brk = {0};
+	int i;
+
+	if (!ppc_breakpoint_available())
+		return;
+
+	for (i = 0; i < nr_wp_slots(); i++)
+		____set_breakpoint(i, &brk);
+}
+
+/* Renable the breakpoint in hardware from current_brk[] */
+void unpause_breakpoints(void)
+{
+	int i;
+
+	if (!ppc_breakpoint_available())
+		return;
+
+	for (i = 0; i < nr_wp_slots(); i++)
+		____set_breakpoint(i, this_cpu_ptr(&current_brk[i]));
+}
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_PPC_TRANSACTIONAL_MEM
 
 static inline bool tm_enabled(struct task_struct *tsk)
-- 
2.25.1



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