[PATCH v9 7/7] arm64: kgdb: Roundup cpus using the debug IPI

Mark Rutland mark.rutland at arm.com
Mon Aug 7 03:28:52 PDT 2023


On Thu, Jun 01, 2023 at 02:31:51PM -0700, Douglas Anderson wrote:
> From: Sumit Garg <sumit.garg at linaro.org>
> 
> Let's use the debug IPI for rounding up CPUs in kgdb. When the debug
> IPI is backed by an NMI (or pseudo NMI) then this will let us debug
> even hard locked CPUs. When the debug IPI isn't backed by an NMI then
> this won't really have any huge benefit but it will still work.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sumit Garg <sumit.garg at linaro.org>
> Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders at chromium.org>
> ---
> 
> Changes in v9:
> - Remove fallback for when debug IPI isn't available.
> - Renamed "NMI IPI" to "debug IPI" since it might not be backed by NMI.
> 
>  arch/arm64/kernel/ipi_debug.c |  5 +++++
>  arch/arm64/kernel/kgdb.c      | 14 ++++++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 19 insertions(+)

This looks fine to me, but I'd feel a bit happier if we had separate SGIs for
the backtrace and the KGDB callback as they're logically unrelated.

Thanks,
Mark.

> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/ipi_debug.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/ipi_debug.c
> index 6984ed507e1f..5794894d94f1 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/ipi_debug.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/ipi_debug.c
> @@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
>  
>  #include <linux/interrupt.h>
>  #include <linux/irq.h>
> +#include <linux/kgdb.h>
>  #include <linux/nmi.h>
>  #include <linux/smp.h>
>  
> @@ -40,6 +41,7 @@ void arch_trigger_cpumask_backtrace(const cpumask_t *mask, bool exclude_self)
>  static irqreturn_t ipi_debug_handler(int irq, void *data)
>  {
>  	irqreturn_t ret = IRQ_NONE;
> +	unsigned int cpu = smp_processor_id();
>  
>  	/*
>  	 * NOTE: Just like in arch_trigger_cpumask_backtrace(), we're calling
> @@ -49,6 +51,9 @@ static irqreturn_t ipi_debug_handler(int irq, void *data)
>  	if (nmi_cpu_backtrace(get_irq_regs()))
>  		ret = IRQ_HANDLED;
>  
> +	if (!kgdb_nmicallback(cpu, get_irq_regs()))
> +		ret = IRQ_HANDLED;
> +
>  	return ret;
>  }
>  
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/kgdb.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/kgdb.c
> index 4e1f983df3d1..9c4c47507cd4 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/kgdb.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/kgdb.c
> @@ -20,6 +20,8 @@
>  #include <asm/patching.h>
>  #include <asm/traps.h>
>  
> +#include "ipi_debug.h"
> +
>  struct dbg_reg_def_t dbg_reg_def[DBG_MAX_REG_NUM] = {
>  	{ "x0", 8, offsetof(struct pt_regs, regs[0])},
>  	{ "x1", 8, offsetof(struct pt_regs, regs[1])},
> @@ -356,3 +358,15 @@ int kgdb_arch_remove_breakpoint(struct kgdb_bkpt *bpt)
>  	return aarch64_insn_write((void *)bpt->bpt_addr,
>  			*(u32 *)bpt->saved_instr);
>  }
> +
> +void kgdb_roundup_cpus(void)
> +{
> +	struct cpumask mask;
> +
> +	cpumask_copy(&mask, cpu_online_mask);
> +	cpumask_clear_cpu(raw_smp_processor_id(), &mask);
> +	if (cpumask_empty(&mask))
> +		return;
> +
> +	arm64_debug_ipi(&mask);
> +}
> -- 
> 2.41.0.rc2.161.g9c6817b8e7-goog
> 



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