[PATCH 0/8] riscv: add initial support for hardware breakpoints
Jesse Taube
jesse at rivosinc.com
Fri Aug 22 10:47:07 PDT 2025
This patchset adds initial support for hardware breakpoints and
watchpoints to the RISC-V architecture. The framework is built on
top of perf subsystem and SBI debug trigger extension.
Currently following features are not supported and are in works:
- icount for single stepping
- Virtualization of debug triggers
- kernel space debug triggers
The SBI debug trigger extension can be found at:
https://github.com/riscv-non-isa/riscv-sbi-doc/blob/master/src/ext-debug-triggers.adoc
The Sdtrig ISA is part of RISC-V debug specification which can be
found at:
https://github.com/riscv/riscv-debug-spec
based off the original RFC by Himanshu Chauhan here:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240222125059.13331-1-hchauhan@ventanamicro.com/
Second RFC by Jesse Taube here:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20250722173829.984082-1-jesse@rivosinc.com/
Himanshu Chauhan (2):
riscv: Add SBI debug trigger extension and function ids
riscv: Introduce support for hardware break/watchpoints
Jesse Taube (6):
riscv: Add insn.c, consolidate instruction decoding
riscv: insn: Add get_insn_nofault
riscv: hw_breakpoint: Use icount for single stepping
riscv: ptrace: Add hw breakpoint support
riscv: ptrace: Add hw breakpoint regset
selftests: riscv: Add test for hardware breakpoints
arch/riscv/Kconfig | 2 +
arch/riscv/include/asm/bug.h | 12 -
arch/riscv/include/asm/hw_breakpoint.h | 59 ++
arch/riscv/include/asm/insn.h | 132 ++-
arch/riscv/include/asm/kdebug.h | 3 +-
arch/riscv/include/asm/processor.h | 4 +
arch/riscv/include/asm/sbi.h | 33 +-
arch/riscv/include/uapi/asm/ptrace.h | 9 +
arch/riscv/kernel/Makefile | 2 +
arch/riscv/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c | 763 ++++++++++++++++++
arch/riscv/kernel/insn.c | 165 ++++
arch/riscv/kernel/kgdb.c | 102 +--
arch/riscv/kernel/probes/kprobes.c | 1 +
arch/riscv/kernel/process.c | 4 +
arch/riscv/kernel/ptrace.c | 169 ++++
arch/riscv/kernel/traps.c | 11 +-
arch/riscv/kernel/traps_misaligned.c | 93 +--
include/uapi/linux/elf.h | 2 +
tools/include/uapi/linux/elf.h | 1 +
tools/perf/tests/tests.h | 3 +-
tools/testing/selftests/riscv/Makefile | 2 +-
.../selftests/riscv/breakpoints/.gitignore | 1 +
.../selftests/riscv/breakpoints/Makefile | 13 +
.../riscv/breakpoints/breakpoint_test.c | 246 ++++++
24 files changed, 1641 insertions(+), 191 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 arch/riscv/include/asm/hw_breakpoint.h
create mode 100644 arch/riscv/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c
create mode 100644 arch/riscv/kernel/insn.c
create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/riscv/breakpoints/.gitignore
create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/riscv/breakpoints/Makefile
create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/riscv/breakpoints/breakpoint_test.c
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