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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jwessel/kgdb
Pull KGDB/KDB fixes and cleanups from Jason Wessel:
"Cleanups
- Clean up compile warnings in kgdboc.c and x86/kernel/kgdb.c
- Add module event hooks for simplified debugging with gdb
Fixes
- Fix kdb to stop paging with 'q' on bta and dmesg
- Fix for data that scrolls off the vga console due to line wrapping
when using the kdb pager
New
- The debug core registers for kernel module events which allows a
kernel aware gdb to automatically load symbols and break on entry
to a kernel module
- Allow kgdboc=kdb to setup kdb on the vga console"
* tag 'for_linus-3.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jwessel/kgdb:
tty/console: fix warnings in drivers/tty/serial/kgdboc.c
kdb,vt_console: Fix missed data due to pager overruns
kdb: Fix dmesg/bta scroll to quit with 'q'
kgdboc: Accept either kbd or kdb to activate the vga + keyboard kdb shell
kgdb,x86: fix warning about unused variable
mips,kgdb: fix recursive page fault with CONFIG_KPROBES
kgdb: Add module event hooks
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It is possible to miss data when using the kdb pager. The kdb pager
does not pay attention to the maximum column constraint of the screen
or serial terminal. This result is not incrementing the shown lines
correctly and the pager will print more lines that fit on the screen.
Obviously that is less than useful when using a VGA console where you
cannot scroll back.
The pager will now look at the kdb_buffer string to see how many
characters are printed. It might not be perfect considering you can
output ASCII that might move the cursor position, but it is a
substantially better approximation for viewing dmesg and trace logs.
This also means that the vt screen needs to set the kdb COLUMNS
variable.
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
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If you press 'q' the pager should exit instead of printing everything
from dmesg which can really bog down a 9600 baud serial link.
The same is true for the bta command.
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
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Allow gdb to auto load kernel modules when it is attached,
which makes it trivially easy to debug module init functions
or pre-set breakpoints in a kernel module that has not loaded yet.
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
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This command disables NMI-entry. If NMI source has been previously shared
with a serial console ("debug port"), this effectively releases the port
from KDB exclusive use, and makes the console available for normal use.
Of course, NMI can be reenabled, enable_nmi modparam is used for that:
echo 1 > /sys/module/kdb/parameters/enable_nmi
Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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The new arch callback should manage NMIs that usually cause KGDB to
enter. That is, not all NMIs should be enabled/disabled, but only
those that issue kgdb_handle_exception().
We must mask it as serial-line interrupt can be used as an NMI, so
if the original KGDB-entry cause was say a breakpoint, then every
input to KDB console will cause KGDB to reenter, which we don't want.
Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Currently kernel never set KGDB_REASON_NMI. We do now, when we enter
KGDB/KDB from an NMI.
This is not to be confused with kgdb_nmicallback(), NMI callback is
an entry for the slave CPUs during CPUs roundup, but REASON_NMI is the
entry for the master CPU.
Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
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Having the CPU in the more prompt is completely redundent vs the
standard kdb prompt, and it also wastes 32 bytes on the stack.
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
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This code cleanup was missed in the original kdb merge, and this code
is simply not used at all. The code that was previously used to set
the KDB_FLAG_ONLY_DO_DUMP was removed prior to the initial kdb merge.
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
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The locked variants are prone to deadlocks (suppose we got to the
debugger w/ the logbuf lock held), so let's switch to nolock variants.
Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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The function is no longer needed, so remove it.
Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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The kgdb dmesg command is broken after the printk rework. The old logic
in kdb code makes no sense in terms of current printk/logging storage
format, and KDB simply hangs forever.
This patch revives the command by switching to kmsg_dumper iterator.
The code is now much more simpler and shorter.
Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jwessel/kgdb
Pull KGDB/KDB regression fixes from Jason Wessel:
- Fix a Smatch warning that appeared in the 3.4 merge window
- Fix kgdb test suite with SMP for all archs without HW single stepping
- Fix kgdb sw breakpoints with CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA=y limitations on x86
- Fix oops on kgdb test suite with CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA
- Fix kgdb test suite with SMP for all archs with HW single stepping
* tag 'for_linus-3.4-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jwessel/kgdb:
x86,kgdb: Fix DEBUG_RODATA limitation using text_poke()
kgdb,debug_core: pass the breakpoint struct instead of address and memory
kgdbts: (2 of 2) fix single step awareness to work correctly with SMP
kgdbts: (1 of 2) fix single step awareness to work correctly with SMP
kgdbts: Fix kernel oops with CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA
kdb: Fix smatch warning on dbg_io_ops->is_console
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There is extra state information that needs to be exposed in the
kgdb_bpt structure for tracking how a breakpoint was installed. The
debug_core only uses the the probe_kernel_write() to install
breakpoints, but this is not enough for all the archs. Some arch such
as x86 need to use text_poke() in order to install a breakpoint into a
read only page.
Passing the kgdb_bpt structure to kgdb_arch_set_breakpoint() and
kgdb_arch_remove_breakpoint() allows other archs to set the type
variable which indicates how the breakpoint was installed.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # >= 2.6.36
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
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The Smatch tool warned that the change from commit b8adde8dd
(kdb: Avoid using dbg_io_ops until it is initialized) should
add another null check later in the kdb_printf().
It is worth noting that the second use of dbg_io_ops->is_console
is protected by the KDB_PAGER state variable which would only
get set when kdb is fully active and initialized. If we
ever encounter changes or defects in the KDB_PAGER state
we do not want to crash the kernel in a kdb_printf/printk.
CC: Tim Bird <tim.bird@am.sony.com>
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-asm_system
Pull "Disintegrate and delete asm/system.h" from David Howells:
"Here are a bunch of patches to disintegrate asm/system.h into a set of
separate bits to relieve the problem of circular inclusion
dependencies.
I've built all the working defconfigs from all the arches that I can
and made sure that they don't break.
The reason for these patches is that I recently encountered a circular
dependency problem that came about when I produced some patches to
optimise get_order() by rewriting it to use ilog2().
This uses bitops - and on the SH arch asm/bitops.h drags in
asm-generic/get_order.h by a circuituous route involving asm/system.h.
The main difficulty seems to be asm/system.h. It holds a number of
low level bits with no/few dependencies that are commonly used (eg.
memory barriers) and a number of bits with more dependencies that
aren't used in many places (eg. switch_to()).
These patches break asm/system.h up into the following core pieces:
(1) asm/barrier.h
Move memory barriers here. This already done for MIPS and Alpha.
(2) asm/switch_to.h
Move switch_to() and related stuff here.
(3) asm/exec.h
Move arch_align_stack() here. Other process execution related bits
could perhaps go here from asm/processor.h.
(4) asm/cmpxchg.h
Move xchg() and cmpxchg() here as they're full word atomic ops and
frequently used by atomic_xchg() and atomic_cmpxchg().
(5) asm/bug.h
Move die() and related bits.
(6) asm/auxvec.h
Move AT_VECTOR_SIZE_ARCH here.
Other arch headers are created as needed on a per-arch basis."
Fixed up some conflicts from other header file cleanups and moving code
around that has happened in the meantime, so David's testing is somewhat
weakened by that. We'll find out anything that got broken and fix it..
* tag 'split-asm_system_h-for-linus-20120328' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-asm_system: (38 commits)
Delete all instances of asm/system.h
Remove all #inclusions of asm/system.h
Add #includes needed to permit the removal of asm/system.h
Move all declarations of free_initmem() to linux/mm.h
Disintegrate asm/system.h for OpenRISC
Split arch_align_stack() out from asm-generic/system.h
Split the switch_to() wrapper out of asm-generic/system.h
Move the asm-generic/system.h xchg() implementation to asm-generic/cmpxchg.h
Create asm-generic/barrier.h
Make asm-generic/cmpxchg.h #include asm-generic/cmpxchg-local.h
Disintegrate asm/system.h for Xtensa
Disintegrate asm/system.h for Unicore32 [based on ver #3, changed by gxt]
Disintegrate asm/system.h for Tile
Disintegrate asm/system.h for Sparc
Disintegrate asm/system.h for SH
Disintegrate asm/system.h for Score
Disintegrate asm/system.h for S390
Disintegrate asm/system.h for PowerPC
Disintegrate asm/system.h for PA-RISC
Disintegrate asm/system.h for MN10300
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Remove all #inclusions of asm/system.h preparatory to splitting and killing
it. Performed with the following command:
perl -p -i -e 's!^#\s*include\s*<asm/system[.]h>.*\n!!' `grep -Irl '^#\s*include\s*<asm/system[.]h>' *`
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jwessel/kgdb
Pull KGDB/KDB updates from Jason Wessel:
"Fixes:
- Fix KDB keyboard repeat scan codes and leaked keyboard events
- Fix kernel crash with kdb_printf() for users who compile new
kdb_printf()'s in early code
- Return all segment registers to gdb on x86_64
Features:
- KDB/KGDB hook the reboot notifier and end user can control if it
stops, detaches or does nothing (updated docs as well)
- Notify users who use CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA to use hw breakpoints"
* tag 'for_linus-3.4-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jwessel/kgdb:
kdb: Add message about CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA on failure to install breakpoint
kdb: Avoid using dbg_io_ops until it is initialized
kgdb,debug_core: add the ability to control the reboot notifier
KDB: Fix usability issues relating to the 'enter' key.
kgdb,debug-core,gdbstub: Hook the reboot notifier for debugger detach
kgdb: Respect that flush op is optional
kgdb: x86: Return all segment registers also in 64-bit mode
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On x86, if CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA is set, one cannot set breakpoints
via KDB. Apparently this is a well-known problem, as at least one distribution
now ships with both KDB enabled and CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA=y for security reasons.
This patch adds an printk message to the breakpoint failure case,
in order to provide suggestions about how to use the debugger.
Reported-by: Tim Bird <tim.bird@am.sony.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Acked-by: Tim Bird <tim.bird@am.sony.com>
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This fixes a bug with setting a breakpoint during kdb initialization
(from kdb_cmds). Any call to kdb_printf() before the initialization
of the kgdboc serial console driver (which happens much later during
bootup than kdb_init), results in kernel panic due to the use of
dbg_io_ops before it is initialized.
Signed-off-by: Tim Bird <tim.bird@am.sony.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
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Sometimes it is desirable to stop the kernel debugger before allowing
a system to reboot either with kdb or kgdb. This patch adds the
ability to turn the reboot notifier on and off or enter the debugger
and stop kernel execution before rebooting.
It is possible to change the setting after booting the kernel with the
following:
echo 1 > /sys/module/debug_core/parameters/kgdbreboot
It is also possible to change this setting using kdb / kgdb to
manipulate the variable directly.
Using KDB:
mm kgdbreboot 1
Using gdb:
set kgdbreboot=1
Reported-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
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This fixes the following problems:
1) Typematic-repeat of 'enter' gives warning message
and leaks make/break if KDB exits. Repeats
look something like 0x1c 0x1c .... 0x9c
2) Use of 'keypad enter' gives warning message and
leaks the ENTER break/make code out if KDB exits.
KP ENTER repeats look someting like 0xe0 0x1c
0xe0 0x1c ... 0xe0 0x9c.
3) Lag on the order of seconds between "break" and "make" when
expecting the enter "break" code. Seen under virtualized
environments such as VMware ESX.
The existing special enter handler tries to glob the enter break code,
but this fails if the other (KP) enter was used, or if there was a key
repeat. It also fails if you mashed some keys along with enter, and
you ended up with a non-enter make or non-enter break code coming
after the enter make code. So first, we modify the handler to handle
these cases. But performing these actions on every enter is annoying
since now you can't hold ENTER down to scroll <more>d messages in
KDB. Since this special behaviour is only necessary to handle the
exiting KDB ('g' + ENTER) without leaking scancodes to the OS. This
cleanup needs to get executed anytime the kdb_main loop exits.
Tested on QEMU. Set a bp on atkbd.c to verify no scan code was leaked.
Cc: Andrei Warkentin <andreiw@vmware.com>
[jason.wessel@windriver.com: move cleanup calls to kdb_main.c]
Signed-off-by: Andrei Warkentin <andrey.warkentin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
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The gdbstub and kdb should get detached if the system is rebooting.
Calling gdbstub_exit() will set the proper debug core state and send a
message to any debugger that is connected to correctly detach.
An attached debugger will receive the exit code from
include/linux/reboot.h based on SYS_HALT, SYS_REBOOT, etc...
Reported-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
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Not all kgdb I/O drivers implement a flush operation. Adjust
gdbstub_exit accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
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Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
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module_ref contains two "unsigned int" fields.
Thats now too small, since some machines can open more than 2^32 files.
Check commit 518de9b39e8 (fs: allow for more than 2^31 files) for
reference.
We can add an aligned(2 * sizeof(unsigned long)) attribute to force
alloc_percpu() allocating module_ref areas in single cache lines.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
CC: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
CC: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
CC: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
CC: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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Change from direct comparison of ->pid with zero to is_idle_task().
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux
* 'modsplit-Oct31_2011' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux: (230 commits)
Revert "tracing: Include module.h in define_trace.h"
irq: don't put module.h into irq.h for tracking irqgen modules.
bluetooth: macroize two small inlines to avoid module.h
ip_vs.h: fix implicit use of module_get/module_put from module.h
nf_conntrack.h: fix up fallout from implicit moduleparam.h presence
include: replace linux/module.h with "struct module" wherever possible
include: convert various register fcns to macros to avoid include chaining
crypto.h: remove unused crypto_tfm_alg_modname() inline
uwb.h: fix implicit use of asm/page.h for PAGE_SIZE
pm_runtime.h: explicitly requires notifier.h
linux/dmaengine.h: fix implicit use of bitmap.h and asm/page.h
miscdevice.h: fix up implicit use of lists and types
stop_machine.h: fix implicit use of smp.h for smp_processor_id
of: fix implicit use of errno.h in include/linux/of.h
of_platform.h: delete needless include <linux/module.h>
acpi: remove module.h include from platform/aclinux.h
miscdevice.h: delete unnecessary inclusion of module.h
device_cgroup.h: delete needless include <linux/module.h>
net: sch_generic remove redundant use of <linux/module.h>
net: inet_timewait_sock doesnt need <linux/module.h>
...
Fix up trivial conflicts (other header files, and removal of the ab3550 mfd driver) in
- drivers/media/dvb/frontends/dibx000_common.c
- drivers/media/video/{mt9m111.c,ov6650.c}
- drivers/mfd/ab3550-core.c
- include/linux/dmaengine.h
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There is no functional change.
Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Koichi Yasutake <yasutake.koichi@jp.panasonic.com>
Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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These files were getting <linux/module.h> via an implicit non-obvious
path, but we want to crush those out of existence since they cost
time during compiles of processing thousands of lines of headers
for no reason. Give them the lightweight header that just contains
the EXPORT_SYMBOL infrastructure.
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jwessel/linux-2.6-kgdb
* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jwessel/linux-2.6-kgdb:
kdb,kgdb: Allow arbitrary kgdb magic knock sequences
kdb: Remove all references to DOING_KGDB2
kdb,kgdb: Implement switch and pass buffer from kdb -> gdb
kdb: cleanup unused variables missed in the original kdb merge
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The first packet that gdb sends when the kernel is in kdb mode seems
to change with every release of gdb. Instead of continuing to add
many different gdb packets, change kdb to automatically look for any
thing that looks like a gdb packet.
Example 1 cold start test:
echo g > /proc/sysrq-trigger
$D#44+
Example 2 cold start test:
echo g > /proc/sysrq-trigger
$3#33
The second one should re-enter kdb's shell right away and is purely a
test.
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
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The DOING_KGDB2 was originally a state variable for one of the two
ways to automatically transition from kdb to kgdb. Purge all these
variables and just use one single state for the transition.
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
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When switching from kdb mode to kgdb mode packets were getting lost
depending on the size of the fifo queue of the serial chip. When gdb
initially connects if it is in kdb mode it should entirely send any
character buffer over to the gdbstub when switching connections.
Previously kdb was zero'ing out the character buffer and this could
lead to gdb failing to connect at all, or a lengthy pause could occur
on the initial connect.
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
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The BTARGS and BTSYMARG variables do not have any function in the
mainline version of kdb.
Reported-by: Tim Bird <tim.bird@am.sony.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
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This allows us to move duplicated code in <asm/atomic.h>
(atomic_inc_not_zero() for now) to <linux/atomic.h>
Signed-off-by: Arun Sharma <asharma@fb.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Fixes generated by 'codespell' and manually reviewed.
Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jwessel/linux-2.6-kgdb
* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jwessel/linux-2.6-kgdb:
kdb: add usage string of 'per_cpu' command
kgdb,x86_64: fix compile warning found with sparse
kdb: code cleanup to use macro instead of value
kgdboc,kgdbts: strlen() doesn't count the terminator
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Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
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It's better to use macro KDB_BASE_CMD_MAX instead of 50
Signed-off-by: Jovi Zhang <bookjovi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
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Notify GDB of the machine halting, rebooting or powering off by sending it an
exited command (remote protocol command 'W'). This is done by calling:
void gdbstub_exit(int status)
from the arch's machine_{halt,restart,power_off}() functions with an
appropriate exit status to be reported to GDB.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
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Conflicts:
MAINTAINERS
arch/arm/mach-omap2/pm24xx.c
drivers/scsi/bfa/bfa_fcpim.c
Needed to update to apply fixes for which the old branch was too
outdated.
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When the number of dyanmic kdb commands exceeds KDB_BASE_CMD_MAX, the
kernel will fault.
Signed-off-by: Jovi Zhang <bookjovi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
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Call kfree in the error path as well as the success path in kdb_ll().
Signed-off-by: Jovi Zhang <bookjovi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
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"gadget", "through", "command", "maintain", "maintain", "controller", "address",
"between", "initiali[zs]e", "instead", "function", "select", "already",
"equal", "access", "management", "hierarchy", "registration", "interest",
"relative", "memory", "offset", "already",
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
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The kgdb_disable_hw_debug() was an architecture specific function for
disabling all hardware breakpoints on a per cpu basis when entering
the debug core.
This patch will remove the weak function kdbg_disable_hw_debug() and
change it into a call back which lives with the rest of hw breakpoint
call backs in struct kgdb_arch.
Signed-off-by: Dongdong Deng <dongdong.deng@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
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The kdb_current legally be equal to NULL in the early boot of the x86
arch. The problem pcan be observed by booting with the kernel arguments:
earlyprintk=vga ekgdboc=kbd kgdbwait
The kdb shell will oops on entry and recursively fault because it
cannot get past the final stage of shell initialization.
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
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Rusty pointed out that the per_cpu command uses up lots of space on
the stack and the cpu supress mask is probably not needed.
This patch removes the need for the supress mask as well as fixing up
the following problems with the kdb per_cpu command:
* The per_cpu command should allow an address as an argument
* When you have more data than can be displayed on one screen allow
the user to break out of the print loop.
Reported-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
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The kdb shell needs to enforce switching back to the original CPU that
took the exception before restoring normal kernel execution. Resuming
from a different CPU than what took the original exception will cause
problems with spin locks that are freed from the a different processor
than had taken the lock.
The special logic in dbg_cpu_switch() can go away entirely with
because the state of what cpus want to be masters or slaves will
remain unchanged between entry and exit of the debug_core exception
context.
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
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For quite some time there have been problems with memory barriers and
various races with NMI on multi processor systems using the kernel
debugger. The algorithm for entering the kernel debug core and
resuming kernel execution was racy and had several known edge case
problems with attempting to debug something on a heavily loaded system
using breakpoints that are hit repeatedly and quickly.
The prior "locking" design entry worked as follows:
* The atomic counter kgdb_active was used with atomic exchange in
order to elect a master cpu out of all the cpus that may have
taken a debug exception.
* The master cpu increments all elements of passive_cpu_wait[].
* The master cpu issues the round up cpus message.
* Each "slave cpu" that enters the debug core increments its own
element in cpu_in_kgdb[].
* Each "slave cpu" spins on passive_cpu_wait[] until it becomes 0.
* The master cpu debugs the system.
The new scheme removes the two arrays of atomic counters and replaces
them with 2 single counters. One counter is used to count the number
of cpus waiting to become a master cpu (because one or more hit an
exception). The second counter is use to indicate how many cpus have
entered as slave cpus.
The new entry logic works as follows:
* One or more cpus enters via kgdb_handle_exception() and increments
the masters_in_kgdb. Each cpu attempts to get the spin lock called
dbg_master_lock.
* The master cpu sets kgdb_active to the current cpu.
* The master cpu takes the spinlock dbg_slave_lock.
* The master cpu asks to round up all the other cpus.
* Each slave cpu that is not already in kgdb_handle_exception()
will enter and increment slaves_in_kgdb. Each slave will now spin
try_locking on dbg_slave_lock.
* The master cpu waits for the sum of masters_in_kgdb and slaves_in_kgdb
to be equal to the sum of the online cpus.
* The master cpu debugs the system.
In the new design the kgdb_active can only be changed while holding
dbg_master_lock. Stress testing has not turned up any further
entry/exit races that existed in the prior locking design. The prior
locking design suffered from atomic variables not being truly atomic
(in the capacity as used by kgdb) along with memory barrier races.
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Acked-by: Dongdong Deng <dongdong.deng@windriver.com>
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