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authorFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>2009-09-09 21:22:48 +0400
committerFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>2009-11-08 17:34:42 +0300
commit24f1e32c60c45c89a997c73395b69c8af6f0a84e (patch)
tree4f30f16e18cb4abbcf96b3b331e6a3f01bfa26e6 /arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c
parent2da3e160cb3d226d87b907fab26850d838ed8d7c (diff)
downloadlinux-24f1e32c60c45c89a997c73395b69c8af6f0a84e.tar.xz
hw-breakpoints: Rewrite the hw-breakpoints layer on top of perf events
This patch rebase the implementation of the breakpoints API on top of perf events instances. Each breakpoints are now perf events that handle the register scheduling, thread/cpu attachment, etc.. The new layering is now made as follows: ptrace kgdb ftrace perf syscall \ | / / \ | / / / Core breakpoint API / / | / | / Breakpoints perf events | | Breakpoints PMU ---- Debug Register constraints handling (Part of core breakpoint API) | | Hardware debug registers Reasons of this rewrite: - Use the centralized/optimized pmu registers scheduling, implying an easier arch integration - More powerful register handling: perf attributes (pinned/flexible events, exclusive/non-exclusive, tunable period, etc...) Impact: - New perf ABI: the hardware breakpoints counters - Ptrace breakpoints setting remains tricky and still needs some per thread breakpoints references. Todo (in the order): - Support breakpoints perf counter events for perf tools (ie: implement perf_bpcounter_event()) - Support from perf tools Changes in v2: - Follow the perf "event " rename - The ptrace regression have been fixed (ptrace breakpoint perf events weren't released when a task ended) - Drop the struct hw_breakpoint and store generic fields in perf_event_attr. - Separate core and arch specific headers, drop asm-generic/hw_breakpoint.h and create linux/hw_breakpoint.h - Use new generic len/type for breakpoint - Handle off case: when breakpoints api is not supported by an arch Changes in v3: - Fix broken CONFIG_KVM, we need to propagate the breakpoint api changes to kvm when we exit the guest and restore the bp registers to the host. Changes in v4: - Drop the hw_breakpoint_restore() stub as it is only used by KVM - EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL hw_breakpoint_restore() as KVM can be built as a module - Restore the breakpoints unconditionally on kvm guest exit: TIF_DEBUG_THREAD doesn't anymore cover every cases of running breakpoints and vcpu->arch.switch_db_regs might not always be set when the guest used debug registers. (Waiting for a reliable optimization) Changes in v5: - Split-up the asm-generic/hw-breakpoint.h moving to linux/hw_breakpoint.h into a separate patch - Optimize the breakpoints restoring while switching from kvm guest to host. We only want to restore the state if we have active breakpoints to the host, otherwise we don't care about messed-up address registers. - Add asm/hw_breakpoint.h to Kbuild - Fix bad breakpoint type in trace_selftest.c Changes in v6: - Fix wrong header inclusion in trace.h (triggered a build error with CONFIG_FTRACE_SELFTEST Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de> Cc: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c26
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 25 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c
index 72edac026a78..5bafdec34441 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c
@@ -53,7 +53,6 @@
#include <asm/syscalls.h>
#include <asm/ds.h>
#include <asm/debugreg.h>
-#include <asm/hw_breakpoint.h>
asmlinkage extern void ret_from_fork(void);
@@ -244,8 +243,6 @@ void release_thread(struct task_struct *dead_task)
BUG();
}
}
- if (unlikely(dead_task->thread.debugreg7))
- flush_thread_hw_breakpoint(dead_task);
}
static inline void set_32bit_tls(struct task_struct *t, int tls, u32 addr)
@@ -309,9 +306,7 @@ int copy_thread(unsigned long clone_flags, unsigned long sp,
savesegment(ds, p->thread.ds);
err = -ENOMEM;
- if (unlikely(test_tsk_thread_flag(me, TIF_DEBUG)))
- if (copy_thread_hw_breakpoint(me, p, clone_flags))
- goto out;
+ memset(p->thread.ptrace_bps, 0, sizeof(p->thread.ptrace_bps));
if (unlikely(test_tsk_thread_flag(me, TIF_IO_BITMAP))) {
p->thread.io_bitmap_ptr = kmalloc(IO_BITMAP_BYTES, GFP_KERNEL);
@@ -351,8 +346,6 @@ out:
kfree(p->thread.io_bitmap_ptr);
p->thread.io_bitmap_max = 0;
}
- if (err)
- flush_thread_hw_breakpoint(p);
return err;
}
@@ -508,23 +501,6 @@ __switch_to(struct task_struct *prev_p, struct task_struct *next_p)
*/
if (preload_fpu)
__math_state_restore();
- /*
- * There's a problem with moving the arch_install_thread_hw_breakpoint()
- * call before current is updated. Suppose a kernel breakpoint is
- * triggered in between the two, the hw-breakpoint handler will see that
- * the 'current' task does not have TIF_DEBUG flag set and will think it
- * is leftover from an old task (lazy switching) and will erase it. Then
- * until the next context switch, no user-breakpoints will be installed.
- *
- * The real problem is that it's impossible to update both current and
- * physical debug registers at the same instant, so there will always be
- * a window in which they disagree and a breakpoint might get triggered.
- * Since we use lazy switching, we are forced to assume that a
- * disagreement means that current is correct and the exception is due
- * to lazy debug register switching.
- */
- if (unlikely(test_tsk_thread_flag(next_p, TIF_DEBUG)))
- arch_install_thread_hw_breakpoint(next_p);
return prev_p;
}