[RFC PATCH 6/7] x86/kexec: Debugging support: Dump registers on exception

[Andy Shevchenko]

On Tue, Nov 05, 2024 at 01:58:40PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 11/5/24 13:37, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > What is the point of writing this code in assembly in the first place? A
> > much more logical thing to do is to just push the registers you haven't
> > pushed already onto the stack and call a C function to do the actual
> > dumping? It isn't like it is in any shape, way or form performance
> > critical.
> 
> arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.c has some code that you can crib, both for
> writing to a text screen (not that useful anymore with EFI framebuffers) and
> serial port. If you factor it a little bit then you can probably even share
> the code directly.
> 
> (__putstr perhaps should have a __putchar() factored out of it?)
> 
> Then you can just do the obvious (have your assembly stub point %rdi to the
> base of the register dump; set the frame order to whatever you'd like,
> except rip/err/exc, or reverse the order if you prefer by changing the
> loop):
> 
> static inline __noreturn void die(void)
> {
> 	while (1)
> 		asm volatile("hlt");
> }
> 
> void dump_register_frame(const unsigned long frame[])
> {
> 	static const char regnames[][5] = {
> 		"rax:", "rcx:", "rdx:", "rbx:",
> 		"rsp:", "rbp:", "rsi:", "rdi:",
> 		"r8: ", "r9: ", "r10:", "r11:",
> 		"r12:", "r13:", "r14:", "r15:",
> 		"cr2:", "Exc:", "Err:", "rip:"
> 	};
> 
> 	for (size_t i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(regnames); i++) {
> 		__putstr(regnames[i]);
> 		__puthex(frame[i]);
> 		__putstr("\n");
> 	}
> 
> 	/* Only return from int3 */
> 	if (frame[17] != 3)
> 		die();
> }

+ a mil here!

Please, use existing early_serial_console infra. Also we have
debug_putaddr() / debug_puthex() / debug_putstr() which are
probably ones you want to use.

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko