For debuggers to take advantage of the hw-breakpoint framework in the kernel,
it is necessary to expose the API calls via a ptrace interface.
This patch exposes the hardware breakpoints framework as a collection of
virtual registers, accesible using PTRACE_SETHBPREGS and PTRACE_GETHBPREGS
requests. The breakpoints are stored in the debug_info struct of the running
thread.
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: S. Karthikeyan <informkarthik@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
The hw-breakpoint framework in the kernel requires architecture-specific
support in order to install, remove, validate and manage hardware
breakpoints.
This patch adds initial support for this framework to the ARM architecture,
but restricts the number of watchpoints to a single resource to get around
the fact that the Data Fault Address Register is unknown when a watchpoint
debug exception is taken.
On cores with v7 debug, the Kernel can handle breakpoint and watchpoint
exceptions occuring from userspace. Older cores require clients to handle
the exception themselves by registering an appropriate overflow handler
or, in the case of ptrace, handling the raised SIGTRAP.
The memory-mapped extended debug interface is unsupported due to its
unreliability in real implementations.
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: S. Karthikeyan <informkarthik@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
The validate_event function in the ARM perf events backend has the
following problems:
1.) Events that are disabled count towards the cost.
2.) Events associated with other PMUs [for example, software events or
breakpoints] do not count towards the cost, but do fail validation,
causing the group to fail.
This patch changes validate_event so that it ignores events in the
PERF_EVENT_STATE_OFF state or that are scheduled for other PMUs.
Reported-by: Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@arm.com>
Acked-by: Jamie Iles <jamie.iles@picochip.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
With several sections per module, and dozens of modules, the
searches down the linked list of sections would dominate the
lookup time, dwarfing any savings from the binary search
within the section.
A simple move-to-front optimisation exploits the commonality
of the code paths taken, and in simple real-world tests reduces
the number of steps in the search to barely more than 1.
Signed-off-by: Phil Carmody <ext-phil.2.carmody@nokia.com>
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Without these, exit functions cannot be stack-traced, so to speak.
This implies that module unloads that perform allocations (don't
laugh) will cause noisy warnings on the console when kmemleak is
enabled, as it presumes that all code's call chains are traceable.
Similarly, BUGs and WARN_ONs will give additional console spam.
Signed-off-by: Phil Carmody <ext-phil.2.carmody@nokia.com>
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Handle the different nop and call instructions for Thumb-2. Also, we
need to adjust the recorded mcount_loc addresses because they have the
lsb set.
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> [recordmcount.pl change]
Signed-off-by: Rabin Vincent <rabin@rab.in>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
This adds mcount recording and updates dynamic ftrace for ARM to work
with the new ftrace dyamic tracing implementation. It also adds support
for the mcount format used by newer ARM compilers.
With dynamic tracing, mcount() is implemented as a nop. Callsites are
patched on startup with nops, and dynamically patched to call to the
ftrace_caller() routine as needed.
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> [recordmcount.pl change]
Signed-off-by: Rabin Vincent <rabin@rab.in>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Fix the mcount routines to build and run on a kernel built with the
Thumb-2 instruction set by correcting the following errors using the
fixes suggested by Catalin Marinas:
- Problem: The following assembler errors appear at the "adr r0,
ftrace_stub" instruction:
entry-common.S: Assembler messages:
entry-common.S:179: Error: invalid immediate for address calculation (value = 0x00000004)
Fix: The errors don't occur with a non-global symbol, so use one.
- Problem: The "mov lr, pc" does not set the lsb when storing the pc in
lr. The called function returns with "bx lr", and the mode changes
to ARM.
Fix: Add a label on the return address and use "adr lr, BSYM(label)".
We don't modify the old mcount because it won't be built when using
Thumb-2.
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rabin Vincent <rabin@rab.in>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
When building as Thumb-2, the ".type foo, %function" annotation in
ENDPROC seems to be required in order for the assembly routines to be
recognized as Thumb-2 code. If the ENDPROC annotations are not present,
calls to these routines are generated as BLX instead of BL.
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rabin Vincent <rabin@rab.in>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
With a new enough GCC, ARM function tracing can be supported without the
need for frame pointers. This is essential for Thumb-2 support, since
frame pointers aren't available then.
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Rabin Vincent <rabin@rab.in>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
The 2.6.36-rc kernel added three new system calls:
fanotify_init, fanotify_mark, and prlimit64. This patch
wires them up on ARM.
The only non-trivial issue here is the u64 argument to
sys_fanotify_mark(), but it is the 3rd argument and thus
passed in r2/r3 in both kernel and user space, so it causes
no problems.
Tested with a 2.6.36-rc2 EABI kernel on an ixp4xx machine.
Tested-by: Anand Gadiyar <gadiyar@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@it.uu.se>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
This is purely a cosmetic change to the ARM perf backend because the current
comments about the relationship between NMIs, interrupt context and
perf_event_do_pending are misleading.
This patch updates the comments so that they reflect what the code
actually does (which is in line with other architectures).
Acked-by: Jamie Iles <jamie.iles@picochip.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
- Most archs use one callchain buffer per cpu, except x86 that needs
to deal with NMIs. Provide a default perf_callchain_buffer()
implementation that x86 overrides.
- Centralize all the kernel/user regs handling and invoke new arch
handlers from there: perf_callchain_user() / perf_callchain_kernel()
That avoid all the user_mode(), current->mm checks and so...
- Invert some parameters in perf_callchain_*() helpers: entry to the
left, regs to the right, following the traditional (dst, src).
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Tested-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@amd64.org>
* master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm:
VIDEO: amba clcd: don't disable an already disabled clock
ARM: Tighten check for allowable CPSR values
ARM: 6329/1: wire up sys_accept4() on ARM
ARM: 6328/1: Build with -fno-dwarf2-cfi-asm
ARM: 6326/1: kgdb: fix GDB_MAX_REGS no longer used
Make do_execve() take a const filename pointer so that kernel_execve() compiles
correctly on ARM:
arch/arm/kernel/sys_arm.c:88: warning: passing argument 1 of 'do_execve' discards qualifiers from pointer target type
This also requires the argv and envp arguments to be consted twice, once for
the pointer array and once for the strings the array points to. This is
because do_execve() passes a pointer to the filename (now const) to
copy_strings_kernel(). A simpler alternative would be to cast the filename
pointer in do_execve() when it's passed to copy_strings_kernel().
do_execve() may not change any of the strings it is passed as part of the argv
or envp lists as they are some of them in .rodata, so marking these strings as
const should be fine.
Further kernel_execve() and sys_execve() need to be changed to match.
This has been test built on x86_64, frv, arm and mips.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
sys_accept4() was added in kernel 2.6.28, but ARM was not updated
to include it. The number and types of parameters is such that
no ARM-specific processing is needed, so wiring up sys_accept4()
just requires defining __NR_accept4 and adding a direct call in
the syscall entry table.
Tested with an EABI 2.6.35 kernel and Ulrich Drepper's original
accept4() test program, modified to define __NR_accept4 for ARM.
Using the updated unistd.h also eliminates a warning then building
glibc (2.10.2 and newer) about accept4() being unimplemented.
Signed-off-by: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@it.uu.se>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Mark arguments to certain system calls as being const where they should be but
aren't. The list includes:
(*) The filename arguments of various stat syscalls, execve(), various utimes
syscalls and some mount syscalls.
(*) The filename arguments of some syscall helpers relating to the above.
(*) The buffer argument of various write syscalls.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Add a comment describing the mcount variants and how the callsites look
like.
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Rabin Vincent <rabin@rab.in>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
The mcount implementation currently uses a different indentation style
from the rest of the file (and the rest of the ARM assembly in the
kernel). Clean it up.
Acked-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Rabin Vincent <rabin@rab.in>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (162 commits)
tracing/kprobes: unregister_trace_probe needs to be called under mutex
perf: expose event__process function
perf events: Fix mmap offset determination
perf, powerpc: fsl_emb: Restore setting perf_sample_data.period
perf, powerpc: Convert the FSL driver to use local64_t
perf tools: Don't keep unreferenced maps when unmaps are detected
perf session: Invalidate last_match when removing threads from rb_tree
perf session: Free the ref_reloc_sym memory at the right place
x86,mmiotrace: Add support for tracing STOS instruction
perf, sched migration: Librarize task states and event headers helpers
perf, sched migration: Librarize the GUI class
perf, sched migration: Make the GUI class client agnostic
perf, sched migration: Make it vertically scrollable
perf, sched migration: Parameterize cpu height and spacing
perf, sched migration: Fix key bindings
perf, sched migration: Ignore unhandled task states
perf, sched migration: Handle ignored migrate out events
perf: New migration tool overview
tracing: Drop cpparg() macro
perf: Use tracepoint_synchronize_unregister() to flush any pending tracepoint call
...
Fix up trivial conflicts in Makefile and drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c
* '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
Kernels compiled to ARM do not need to handle Thumb-2 module relocations
as interworking is not allowed. This patch #ifdef's out the handling of
such relocations.
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Reading back the upper and lower values in the R_ARM_THM_CALL and
R_ARM_THM_JUMP24 case was introduced by a previous commit but they are
not needed.
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
The patch adds handling case for the R_ARM_THM_MOVW_ABS_NC and
R_ARM_THM_MOVT_ABS relocations in arch/arm/kernel/module.c. Such
relocations may appear in Thumb-2 compiled kernel modules.
Reported-by: Kyungmin Park <kmpark@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
x86 calls machine_shutdown() from the various machine_*() calls which
take the machine down ready for halting, restarting, etc, and uses
this to bring the system safely to a point where those actions can be
performed. Such actions are stopping the secondary CPUs.
So, change the ARM implementation of these to reflect what x86 does.
This solves kexec problems on ARM SMP platforms, where the secondary
CPUs were left running across the kexec call.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
The TWD local timers are unable to wake up the CPU when it is placed
into a low power mode, eg. C3. Therefore, we need to adapt things
such that the TWD code can cope with this.
We do this by always providing a broadcast tick function, and marking
the fact that the TWD local timer will stop in low power modes. This
means that when the CPU is placed into a low power mode, the core
timer code marks this fact, and allows an IPI to be given to the core.
Tested-by: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
All implementations of cpu_proc_fin() start by disabling interrupts
and then flush caches. Rather than have every processors proc_fin()
implementation do this, move it out into generic code - and move the
cache flush past setup_mm_for_reboot() (so it can benefit from having
caches still enabled.)
This allows cpu_proc_fin() to become independent of the L1/L2 cache
types, and eventually move the L2 cache flushing into the L2 support
code.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
