[RFC PATCH 0/6] riscv: add initial support for hardware breakpoints
Jesse Taube
jesse at rivosinc.com
Tue Jul 22 10:38:23 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:
- Ptrace regset support
- Virtualization of 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/
Himanshu Chauhan (2):
riscv: Add SBI debug trigger extension and function ids
riscv: Introduce support for hardware break/watchpoints
Jesse Taube (4):
riscv: Add insn.c, consolidate instruction decoding
riscv: insn: __read_insn use copy_from_X_nofault
riscv: hw_breakpoint: Use icount for single stepping
riscv: ptrace: Add hw breakpoint support
arch/riscv/Kconfig | 12 +
arch/riscv/include/asm/bug.h | 12 -
arch/riscv/include/asm/hw_breakpoint.h | 60 +++
arch/riscv/include/asm/insn.h | 131 ++++-
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 | 3 +-
arch/riscv/kernel/Makefile | 2 +
arch/riscv/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c | 681 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
arch/riscv/kernel/insn.c | 153 ++++++
arch/riscv/kernel/kgdb.c | 102 +---
arch/riscv/kernel/probes/kprobes.c | 1 +
arch/riscv/kernel/process.c | 4 +
arch/riscv/kernel/ptrace.c | 93 ++++
arch/riscv/kernel/traps.c | 11 +-
arch/riscv/kernel/traps_misaligned.c | 93 +---
17 files changed, 1208 insertions(+), 190 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
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