Currently, when ptrace needs to modify a breakpoint, like disabling
it, changing its address, type or len, it calls
modify_user_hw_breakpoint(). This latter will perform the heavy and
racy task of unregistering the old breakpoint and registering a new
one.
This is racy as someone else might steal the reserved breakpoint
slot under us, which is undesired as the breakpoint is only
supposed to be modified, sometimes in the middle of a debugging
workflow. We don't want our slot to be stolen in the middle.
So instead of unregistering/registering the breakpoint, just
disable it while we modify its breakpoint fields and re-enable it
after if necessary.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <1260347148-5519-1-git-send-regression-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Today's linux-next build failed with:
kernel/hw_breakpoint.c:86: error: 'task_bp_pinned' redeclared as different kind of symbol
...
Caused by commit dd17c8f729 ("percpu:
remove per_cpu__ prefix") from the percpu tree interacting with
commit 56053170ea ("hw-breakpoints:
Fix task-bound breakpoint slot allocation") from the tip tree.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
LKML-Reference: <20091208182515.bb6dda4a.sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Whatever the context nature of a breakpoint, we always perform the
following constraint checks before allocating it a slot:
- Check the number of pinned breakpoint bound the concerned cpus
- Check the max number of task-bound breakpoints that are belonging
to a task.
- Add both and see if we have a reamining slot for the new breakpoint
This is the right thing to do when we are about to register a cpu-only
bound breakpoint. But not if we are dealing with a task bound
breakpoint. What we want in this case is:
- Check the number of pinned breakpoint bound the concerned cpus
- Check the number of breakpoints that already belong to the task
in which the breakpoint to register is bound to.
- Add both
This fixes a regression that makes the "firefox -g" command fail to
register breakpoints once we deal with a secondary thread.
Reported-by: Walt <w41ter@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
struct perf_event::event callback was called when a breakpoint
triggers. But this is a rather opaque callback, pretty
tied-only to the breakpoint API and not really integrated into perf
as it triggers even when we don't overflow.
We prefer to use overflow_handler() as it fits into the perf events
rules, being called only when we overflow.
Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: "K. Prasad" <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Drop the callback and task parameters from modify_user_hw_breakpoint().
For now we have no user that need to modify a breakpoint to the point
of changing its handler or its task context.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: "K. Prasad" <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Kernel breakpoints are created using functions in which we pass
breakpoint parameters as individual variables: address, length
and type.
Although it fits well for x86, this just does not scale across
architectures that may support this api later as these may have
more or different needs. Pass in a perf_event_attr structure
instead because it is meant to evolve as much as possible into
a generic hardware breakpoint parameter structure.
Reported-by: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1259294154-5197-2-git-send-regression-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
In-kernel user breakpoints are created using functions in which
we pass breakpoint parameters as individual variables: address,
length and type.
Although it fits well for x86, this just does not scale across
archictectures that may support this api later as these may have
more or different needs. Pass in a perf_event_attr structure
instead because it is meant to evolve as much as possible into
a generic hardware breakpoint parameter structure.
Reported-by: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1259294154-5197-1-git-send-regression-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
If the new percpu tree is combined with the perf events tree
the following new warning triggers:
kernel/hw_breakpoint.c: In function 'toggle_bp_task_slot':
kernel/hw_breakpoint.c:151: warning: 'task_bp_pinned' is used uninitialized in this function
Because it's not valid anymore to define a local variable
and a percpu variable (even if it's file scope local) with
the same name.
Rename the local variable to resolve this.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
LKML-Reference: <200911260701.nAQ71owx016356@imap1.linux-foundation.org>
[ v2: added changelog ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This simplifies the error handling when we create a breakpoint.
We don't need to check the NULL return value corner case anymore
since we have improved perf_event_create_kernel_counter() to
always return an error code in the failure case.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <1259210142-5714-3-git-send-regression-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Perf tools create perf events as disabled in the beginning.
Breakpoints are then considered like ptrace temporary
breakpoints, only meant to reserve a breakpoint slot until we
get all the necessary informations from the user.
In this case, we don't check the address that is breakpointed as
it is NULL in the ptrace case.
But perf tools don't have the same purpose, events are created
disabled to wait for all events to be created before enabling
all of them. We want to check the breakpoint parameters in this
case.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <1258987355-8751-2-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Attribute authorship to developers of hw-breakpoint related
files.
Signed-off-by: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20091123154713.GA5593@in.ibm.com>
[ v2: moved it to latest -tip ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Remove asm/processor.h and asm/debugreg.h as these headers are
not used anymore in the hw-breakpoints core file.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <1258863695-10464-3-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The hw-breakpoint sample module has been broken during the
hw-breakpoint internals refactoring. Propagate the changes
to it.
Reported-by: "K. Prasad" <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Allow or refuse to build a counter using the breakpoints pmu following
given constraints.
We keep track of the pmu users by using three per cpu variables:
- nr_cpu_bp_pinned stores the number of pinned cpu breakpoints counters
in the given cpu
- nr_bp_flexible stores the number of non-pinned breakpoints counters
in the given cpu.
- task_bp_pinned stores the number of pinned task breakpoints in a cpu
The latter is not a simple counter but gathers the number of tasks that
have n pinned breakpoints.
Considering HBP_NUM the number of available breakpoint address
registers:
task_bp_pinned[0] is the number of tasks having 1 breakpoint
task_bp_pinned[1] is the number of tasks having 2 breakpoints
[...]
task_bp_pinned[HBP_NUM - 1] is the number of tasks having the
maximum number of registers (HBP_NUM).
When a breakpoint counter is created and wants an access to the pmu,
we evaluate the following constraints:
== Non-pinned counter ==
- If attached to a single cpu, check:
(per_cpu(nr_bp_flexible, cpu) || (per_cpu(nr_cpu_bp_pinned, cpu)
+ max(per_cpu(task_bp_pinned, cpu)))) < HBP_NUM
-> If there are already non-pinned counters in this cpu, it
means there is already a free slot for them.
Otherwise, we check that the maximum number of per task
breakpoints (for this cpu) plus the number of per cpu
breakpoint (for this cpu) doesn't cover every registers.
- If attached to every cpus, check:
(per_cpu(nr_bp_flexible, *) || (max(per_cpu(nr_cpu_bp_pinned, *))
+ max(per_cpu(task_bp_pinned, *)))) < HBP_NUM
-> This is roughly the same, except we check the number of per
cpu bp for every cpu and we keep the max one. Same for the
per tasks breakpoints.
== Pinned counter ==
- If attached to a single cpu, check:
((per_cpu(nr_bp_flexible, cpu) > 1)
+ per_cpu(nr_cpu_bp_pinned, cpu)
+ max(per_cpu(task_bp_pinned, cpu))) < HBP_NUM
-> Same checks as before. But now the nr_bp_flexible, if any,
must keep one register at least (or flexible breakpoints will
never be be fed).
- If attached to every cpus, check:
((per_cpu(nr_bp_flexible, *) > 1)
+ max(per_cpu(nr_cpu_bp_pinned, *))
+ max(per_cpu(task_bp_pinned, *))) < HBP_NUM
Changes in v2:
- Counter -> event rename
Changes in v5:
- Fix unreleased non-pinned task-bound-only counters. We only released
it in the first cpu. (Thanks to Paul Mackerras for reporting that)
Changes in v6:
- Currently, events scheduling are done in this order: cpu context
pinned + cpu context non-pinned + task context pinned + task context
non-pinned events. Then our current constraints are right theoretically
but not in practice, because non-pinned counters may be scheduled
before we can apply every possible pinned counters. So consider
non-pinned counters as pinned for now.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
This patch rebase the implementation of the breakpoints API on top of
perf events instances.
Each breakpoints are now perf events that handle the
register scheduling, thread/cpu attachment, etc..
The new layering is now made as follows:
ptrace kgdb ftrace perf syscall
\ | / /
\ | / /
/
Core breakpoint API /
/
| /
| /
Breakpoints perf events
|
|
Breakpoints PMU ---- Debug Register constraints handling
(Part of core breakpoint API)
|
|
Hardware debug registers
Reasons of this rewrite:
- Use the centralized/optimized pmu registers scheduling,
implying an easier arch integration
- More powerful register handling: perf attributes (pinned/flexible
events, exclusive/non-exclusive, tunable period, etc...)
Impact:
- New perf ABI: the hardware breakpoints counters
- Ptrace breakpoints setting remains tricky and still needs some per
thread breakpoints references.
Todo (in the order):
- Support breakpoints perf counter events for perf tools (ie: implement
perf_bpcounter_event())
- Support from perf tools
Changes in v2:
- Follow the perf "event " rename
- The ptrace regression have been fixed (ptrace breakpoint perf events
weren't released when a task ended)
- Drop the struct hw_breakpoint and store generic fields in
perf_event_attr.
- Separate core and arch specific headers, drop
asm-generic/hw_breakpoint.h and create linux/hw_breakpoint.h
- Use new generic len/type for breakpoint
- Handle off case: when breakpoints api is not supported by an arch
Changes in v3:
- Fix broken CONFIG_KVM, we need to propagate the breakpoint api
changes to kvm when we exit the guest and restore the bp registers
to the host.
Changes in v4:
- Drop the hw_breakpoint_restore() stub as it is only used by KVM
- EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL hw_breakpoint_restore() as KVM can be built as a
module
- Restore the breakpoints unconditionally on kvm guest exit:
TIF_DEBUG_THREAD doesn't anymore cover every cases of running
breakpoints and vcpu->arch.switch_db_regs might not always be
set when the guest used debug registers.
(Waiting for a reliable optimization)
Changes in v5:
- Split-up the asm-generic/hw-breakpoint.h moving to
linux/hw_breakpoint.h into a separate patch
- Optimize the breakpoints restoring while switching from kvm guest
to host. We only want to restore the state if we have active
breakpoints to the host, otherwise we don't care about messed-up
address registers.
- Add asm/hw_breakpoint.h to Kbuild
- Fix bad breakpoint type in trace_selftest.c
Changes in v6:
- Fix wrong header inclusion in trace.h (triggered a build
error with CONFIG_FTRACE_SELFTEST
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
This patch introduces the generic Hardware Breakpoint interfaces for both user
and kernel space requests.
This core Api handles the hardware breakpoints through new helpers. It
handles the user-space breakpoints and kernel breakpoints in front of
arch implementation.
One can choose kernel wide breakpoints using the following helpers
and passing them a generic struct hw_breakpoint:
- register_kernel_hw_breakpoint()
- unregister_kernel_hw_breakpoint()
- modify_kernel_hw_breakpoint()
On the other side, you can choose per task breakpoints.
- register_user_hw_breakpoint()
- unregister_user_hw_breakpoint()
- modify_user_hw_breakpoint()
[ fweisbec@gmail.com: fix conflict against perfcounter ]
Original-patch-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Frederic Weisbecker