v7 debug introduced OS Save and Restore mechanism. On a v7 debug SinglePower
system, i.e a system without a separate core and debug power domain, which does
not support external debug over powerdown, it is implementation defined whether
OS Save and Restore is implemented.
v7.1 debug requires OS Save and Restore mechanism. v6 debug and v6.1 debug do
not implement it.
A new global variable bool has_ossr is introduced and is determined in
arch_hw_breakpoint_init() like debug_arch or the number of BRPs/WRPs.
The logic how to check if OS Save and Restore is supported has changed with
this patch. In reset_ctrl_regs() a mask consisting of OSLM[1] (OSLSR.3) and
OSLM[0] (OSLSR.0) was used to check if the system supports OS Save and
Restore. In the new function core_has_os_save_restore() only OSLM[0] is used.
It is not necessary to check OSLM[1] too since it is v7.1 debug specific and
v7.1 debug requires OS Save and Restore and thus OS Lock.
Signed-off-by: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
The coprocessor register CRn for accesses to the debug register can be a
different one than C0. Take this into account for the ARM_DBG_READ and
the ARM_DBG_WRITE macro.
The inline assembler calls which used a coprocessor register CRn other
than C0 are replaced by the ARM_DBG_READ or ARM_DBG_WRITE macro.
Tested-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
ARM debug architecture 7.1 mandates that the DFAR is updated on a
watchpoint debug exception to contain the faulting virtual address
of the memory access. This allows us to determine which watchpoints
have fired and therefore report useful information to userspace.
This patch adds support for using the DFAR in the watchpoint handler,
which allows us to support multiple watchpoints on CPUs implementing
the new debug architecture.
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
This patch adds initial support for Cortex-A15 (debug architecture v7.1)
to the hw_breakpoint ARM backend.
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
The single-stepping code is currently different depending on whether
we are stepping over a breakpoint or a watchpoint. There is no good
reason for this, so let's sort it out.
This patch adds functions for enabling/disabling single-step for
a particular hw_breakpoint and integrates this with the exception
handling code.
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
The watchpoint single-stepping code calls register_user_hw_breakpoint to
register a mismatch breakpoint for stepping over the watchpoint. This is
performed with preemption disabled, which is unsafe as we may end up scheduling
whilst in_atomic(). Furthermore, using the perf API is rather overkill since
we are already in the hw-breakpoint backend and only require access to reserved
breakpoints anyway.
This patch reworks the watchpoint stepping code so that we don't require
another perf_event for the mismatch breakpoint. Instead, we hold a separate
arch_hw_breakpoint_ctrl struct inside the watchpoint which is used exclusively
for stepping. We can check whether or not stepping is enabled when installing
or uninstalling the watchpoint and operate on the breakpoint accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
For debuggers to take advantage of the hw-breakpoint framework in the kernel,
it is necessary to expose the API calls via a ptrace interface.
This patch exposes the hardware breakpoints framework as a collection of
virtual registers, accesible using PTRACE_SETHBPREGS and PTRACE_GETHBPREGS
requests. The breakpoints are stored in the debug_info struct of the running
thread.
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: S. Karthikeyan <informkarthik@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
The hw-breakpoint framework in the kernel requires architecture-specific
support in order to install, remove, validate and manage hardware
breakpoints.
This patch adds initial support for this framework to the ARM architecture,
but restricts the number of watchpoints to a single resource to get around
the fact that the Data Fault Address Register is unknown when a watchpoint
debug exception is taken.
On cores with v7 debug, the Kernel can handle breakpoint and watchpoint
exceptions occuring from userspace. Older cores require clients to handle
the exception themselves by registering an appropriate overflow handler
or, in the case of ptrace, handling the raised SIGTRAP.
The memory-mapped extended debug interface is unsupported due to its
unreliability in real implementations.
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: S. Karthikeyan <informkarthik@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Dietmar Eggemann