[PATCH 0/3] arm64/hw_breakpoint: Enable FEAT_Debugv8p9

Anshuman Khandual anshuman.khandual at arm.com
Mon Sep 30 21:35:59 PDT 2024


This series enables FEAT_Debugv8p9 thus extending breakpoint and watchpoint
support upto 64. This series is based on v6.12-rc1 after applying the KVM
FEAT_FGT2 FGU series.

https://lore.kernel.org/all/20241001024356.1096072-1-anshuman.khandual@arm.com/

Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet at lwn.net>
Cc: Marc Zyngier <maz at kernel.org>
Cc: Oliver Upton <oliver.upton at linux.dev>
Cc: James Morse <james.morse at arm.com>
Cc: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose at arm.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will at kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Brown <broonie at kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland at arm.com>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org
Cc: kvmarm at lists.linux.dev
Cc: linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org

Changes in V1:

- Changed FTR_STRICT to FTR_NONSTRICT for the following ID_AA64DFR1_EL1
  register fields - ABL_CMPs, DPFZS, PMICNTR, CTX_CMPs, WRPs and BRPs

Changes in RFC V2:

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/20240620092607.267132-1-anshuman.khandual@arm.com/

- This series has been split from RFC V1 dealing only with arm64 breakpoints
- Restored back DBG_MDSCR_MASK definition (unrelated change)
- Added preempt_disable()/enable() blocks between selecting banks and registers

Changes in RFC:

https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240405080008.1225223-1-anshuman.khandual@arm.com/

Anshuman Khandual (3):
  arm64/cpufeature: Add field details for ID_AA64DFR1_EL1 register
  arm64/boot: Enable EL2 requirements for FEAT_Debugv8p9
  arm64/hw_breakpoint: Enable FEAT_Debugv8p9

 Documentation/arch/arm64/booting.rst    | 19 ++++++++++
 arch/arm64/include/asm/debug-monitors.h |  1 +
 arch/arm64/include/asm/el2_setup.h      | 27 +++++++++++++
 arch/arm64/include/asm/hw_breakpoint.h  | 50 ++++++++++++++++++++-----
 arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_arm.h        |  1 +
 arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c          | 21 ++++++++---
 arch/arm64/kernel/debug-monitors.c      | 16 ++++++--
 arch/arm64/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c       | 33 ++++++++++++++++
 8 files changed, 149 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)

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2.25.1




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