[PATCH 0/3] ARM: KDB FIQ debugger
John Stultz
john.stultz at linaro.org
Thu May 9 20:10:48 EDT 2013
Hey all,
Just wanted to try to revive Anton's KDB FIQ patches
which have been sent out a number of times since last October
and have gotten almost no response at all.
I've simply updated them to apply to Linus' current HEAD,
and figured I'd send them out again to try to spur some
interest.
Any feedback would be appreciated!
thanks
-john
Short description of the KDB/FIQ debugger:
The FIQ debugger is a facility that can be used to debug situations when
the kernel stuck in uninterruptable sections, e.g. the kernel infinitely
loops or deadlocked in an interrupt or with interrupts disabled. On some
development boards there is even a special NMI button, which is very
useful for debugging weird kernel hangs.
And FIQ is basically an NMI, it has a higher priority than IRQs, and upon
IRQ exception FIQs are not disabled. It is still possible to disable FIQs
(as well as some "NMIs" on other architectures), but via special means.
Old changelogs and a full rationale for these patches can be found here:
v1-v5, rationale: http://lkml.org/lkml/2012/9/10/2
v6: http://lkml.org/lkml/2012/9/10/2
v7: http://lkml.org/lkml/2012/9/13/367
v8: http://lkml.org/lkml/2012/9/19/525
v9: http://lkml.org/lkml/2012/9/24/538
Cc: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov at linaro.org>
Cc: Russell King <linux at arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre at linaro.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel at windriver.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org
Cc: kernel-team at android.com
Anton Vorontsov (3):
ARM: Move some macros from entry-armv to entry-header
ARM: Add KGDB/KDB FIQ debugger generic code
ARM: versatile: Make able to use UART ports for KGDB FIQ debugger
arch/arm/Kconfig | 19 +++++
arch/arm/include/asm/kgdb.h | 7 ++
arch/arm/kernel/Makefile | 1 +
arch/arm/kernel/entry-armv.S | 169 +-----------------------------------
arch/arm/kernel/entry-header.S | 171 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
arch/arm/kernel/kgdb_fiq.c | 118 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
arch/arm/kernel/kgdb_fiq_entry.S | 87 +++++++++++++++++++
arch/arm/mach-versatile/Makefile | 1 +
arch/arm/mach-versatile/kgdb_fiq.c | 55 ++++++++++++
9 files changed, 460 insertions(+), 168 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 arch/arm/kernel/kgdb_fiq.c
create mode 100644 arch/arm/kernel/kgdb_fiq_entry.S
create mode 100644 arch/arm/mach-versatile/kgdb_fiq.c
--
1.8.1.2
More information about the linux-arm-kernel
mailing list