[PATCH 3/6] arm64: Add support for hooks to handle undefined instructions

[Catalin Marinas]

On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 03:30:11PM +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 03:21:09PM +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> > On 26 August 2014 15:13, Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com> wrote:
> > > On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 11:28:47AM +0100, Punit Agrawal wrote:
> > >> Add support to register hooks for undefined instructions. The handlers
> > >> will be called when the undefined instruction and the processor state
> > >> (as contained in pstate) match criteria used at registration.
> > >>
> > >> Note: The patch only deals with ARM instruction encodings and needs
> > >> fixing to handle thumb instructions as well.
> > >
> > > [...]
> > >
> > >> +static int call_undef_hook(struct pt_regs *regs)
> > >> +{
> > >> +     struct undef_hook *hook;
> > >> +     unsigned long flags;
> > >> +     u32 instr;
> > >> +     int (*fn)(struct pt_regs *regs, u32 instr) = NULL;
> > >> +     void __user *pc = (void __user *)instruction_pointer(regs);
> > >> +
> > >> +     /*
> > >> +      * Currently, undefined instruction patching is only supported
> > >> +      * for user mode. Also, as we're not emulating any thumb
> > >> +      * instructions lets not add thumb instruction decoding until
> > >> +      * it is needed.
> > >> +      */
> > >> +     if (!compat_user_mode(regs) || compat_thumb_mode(regs))
> > >> +             return 1;
> > >
> > > What do you mean by `undefined instruction patching'? I don't see anything
> > > in the mechanism that means this can't be reused for kernel code, then we
> > > just register the SWP emulation hook for userspace only using the mode (like
> > > we do for kgdb).
> > 
> > You need this patch in order to be able to return from an undef
> > exception taken in EL1:
> > 
> > --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S
> > +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S
> > @@ -287,7 +287,9 @@ el1_undef:
> >          */
> >         enable_dbg
> >         mov     x0, sp
> > -       b       do_undefinstr
> > +       bl      do_undefinstr
> > +
> > +       kernel_exit 1
> >  el1_dbg:
> >         /*
> >          * Debug exception handling
> 
> Hmm, I'm surprised we don't already need something like this for KGDB...

We don't expect undef exceptions at EL1, so far they are fatal as we
don't have any hooks for them. Doesn't KGDB use dedicated breakpoint
instructions?

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Catalin