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* perf: Add context field to perf_eventAvi Kivity2011-07-011-2/+8
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The perf_event overflow handler does not receive any caller-derived argument, so many callers need to resort to looking up the perf_event in their local data structure. This is ugly and doesn't scale if a single callback services many perf_events. Fix by adding a context parameter to perf_event_create_kernel_counter() (and derived hardware breakpoints APIs) and storing it in the perf_event. The field can be accessed from the callback as event->overflow_handler_context. All callers are updated. Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1309362157-6596-2-git-send-email-avi@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* perf,hw_breakpoint: Initialize hardware api earlierJason Wessel2010-11-121-0/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When using early debugging, the kernel does not initialize the hw_breakpoint API early enough and causes the late initialization of the kernel debugger to fail. The boot arguments are: earlyprintk=vga ekgdboc=kbd kgdbwait Then simply type "go" at the kdb prompt and boot. The kernel will later emit the message: kgdb: Could not allocate hwbreakpoints And at that point the kernel debugger will cease to work correctly. The solution is to initialize the hw_breakpoint at the same time that all the other perf call backs are initialized instead of using a core_initcall() initialization which happens well after the kernel debugger can make use of hardware breakpoints. Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com> CC: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> CC: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <4CD3396D.1090308@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
* hw-breakpoints: Get the number of available registers on boot dynamicallyFrederic Weisbecker2010-05-011-0/+10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The breakpoint generic layer assumes that archs always know in advance the static number of address registers available to host breakpoints through the HBP_NUM macro. However this is not true for every archs. For example Arm needs to get this information dynamically to handle the compatiblity between different versions. To solve this, this patch proposes to drop the static HBP_NUM macro and let the arch provide the number of available slots through a new hw_breakpoint_slots() function. For archs that have CONFIG_HAVE_MIXED_BREAKPOINTS_REGS selected, it will be called once as the number of registers fits for instruction and data breakpoints together. For the others it will be called first to get the number of instruction breakpoint registers and another time to get the data breakpoint registers, the targeted type is given as a parameter of hw_breakpoint_slots(). Reported-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: K. Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* hw-breakpoints: Separate constraint space for data and instruction breakpointsFrederic Weisbecker2010-05-011-3/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | There are two outstanding fashions for archs to implement hardware breakpoints. The first is to separate breakpoint address pattern definition space between data and instruction breakpoints. We then have typically distinct instruction address breakpoint registers and data address breakpoint registers, delivered with separate control registers for data and instruction breakpoints as well. This is the case of PowerPc and ARM for example. The second consists in having merged breakpoint address space definition between data and instruction breakpoint. Address registers can host either instruction or data address and the access mode for the breakpoint is defined in a control register. This is the case of x86 and Super H. This patch adds a new CONFIG_HAVE_MIXED_BREAKPOINTS_REGS config that archs can select if they belong to the second case. Those will have their slot allocation merged for instructions and data breakpoints. The others will have a separate slot tracking between data and instruction breakpoints. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: K. Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* hw-breakpoints: Tag ptrace breakpoint as exclude_kernelFrederic Weisbecker2010-05-011-0/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Tag ptrace breakpoints with the exclude_kernel attribute set. This will make it easier to set generic policies on breakpoints, when it comes to ensure nobody unpriviliged try to breakpoint on the kernel. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: K. Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* percpu: Add __percpu sparse annotations to hw_breakpointTejun Heo2010-02-271-4/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add __percpu sparse annotations to hw_breakpoint. These annotations are to make sparse consider percpu variables to be in a different address space and warn if accessed without going through percpu accessors. This patch doesn't affect normal builds. In kernel/hw_breakpoint.c, per_cpu(nr_task_bp_pinned, cpu)'s will trigger spurious noderef related warnings from sparse. Changing it to &per_cpu(nr_task_bp_pinned[0], cpu) will work around the problem but deemed to ugly by the maintainer. Leave it alone until better solution can be found. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Cc: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com> LKML-Reference: <4B7B4B7A.9050902@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
* perf: Make bp_len type to u64 generic across the archMahesh Salgaonkar2010-02-041-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Change 'bp_len' type to __u64 to make it work across archs as the s390 architecture watch point length can be upto 2^64. reference: http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/1/25/212 This is an ABI change that is not backward compatible with the previous hardware breakpoint info layout integrated in this development cycle, a rebuilt of perf tools is necessary for versions based on 2.6.33-rc1 - 2.6.33-rc6 to work with a kernel based on this patch. Signed-off-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> Cc: "K. Prasad" <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Martin <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> LKML-Reference: <20100130045518.GA20776@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
* perf, hw_breakpoint, kgdb: Do not take mutex for kernel debuggerJason Wessel2010-01-301-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch fixes the regression in functionality where the kernel debugger and the perf API do not nicely share hw breakpoint reservations. The kernel debugger cannot use any mutex_lock() calls because it can start the kernel running from an invalid context. A mutex free version of the reservation API needed to get created for the kernel debugger to safely update hw breakpoint reservations. The possibility for a breakpoint reservation to be concurrently processed at the time that kgdb interrupts the system is improbable. Should this corner case occur the end user is warned, and the kernel debugger will prohibit updating the hardware breakpoint reservations. Any time the kernel debugger reserves a hardware breakpoint it will be a system wide reservation. Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com> Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: kgdb-bugreport@lists.sourceforge.net Cc: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org LKML-Reference: <1264719883-7285-3-git-send-email-jason.wessel@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* hw-breakpoints: Handle bad modify_user_hw_breakpoint off-case return valueFrederic Weisbecker2009-12-111-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | While converting modify_user_hw_breakpoint() return value, we forgot to handle the off-case. It's not returning a pointer anymore. This solves the build warning reported by Stephen Rothwell against linux-next. Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com> LKML-Reference: <1260529122-6260-1-git-send-regression-fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
* hw-breakpoints: Modify breakpoints without unregistering themFrederic Weisbecker2009-12-091-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* hw-breakpoints: Zeroe the breakpoint attrs on initializationFrederic Weisbecker2009-12-071-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | The perf attrs used to set up breakpoint parameters are often allocated in the stack and not zeroed out before calling hw_breakpoint_init(). Handle it from this helper to avoid random attributes set by the stack. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
* hw-breakpoints: Use overflow handler instead of the event callbackFrederic Weisbecker2009-12-061-14/+11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* hw-breakpoints: Drop callback and task parameters from modify helperFrederic Weisbecker2009-12-061-7/+2
| | | | | | | | | 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>
* hw-breakpoints: Use struct perf_event_attr to define kernel breakpointsFrederic Weisbecker2009-11-271-20/+15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* hw-breakpoints: Use struct perf_event_attr to define user breakpointsFrederic Weisbecker2009-11-271-20/+16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* hw-breakpoints: Fix misordered ifdefFrederic Weisbecker2009-11-241-1/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fix a misplaced ifdef. We need the perf event headers also in off-case to avoid the following build error: include/linux/hw_breakpoint.h:94: error: expected declaration specifiers or '...' before 'perf_callback_t' include/linux/hw_breakpoint.h:102: error: expected declaration specifiers or '...' before 'perf_callback_t' include/linux/hw_breakpoint.h:109: error: expected declaration specifiers or '...' before 'perf_callback_t' include/linux/hw_breakpoint.h:116: error: expected declaration specifiers or '...' before 'perf_callback_t' Reported-by: Kisskb-bot by Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com> LKML-Reference: <1259011812-8093-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* hw-breakpoints: Include only linux/perf_event.h from kernel part of bp headersFrederic Weisbecker2009-11-231-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | As userspace only needs the breakpoints enum types from the breakpoints headers. 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: <1258987355-8751-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* hw-breakpoints: Separate the kernel part from breakpoint headersFrederic Weisbecker2009-11-221-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | So that we can include this header from userspace tools, like perf tools, to get the breakpoint types and len definitions. 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: <1258863695-10464-4-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* hw-breakpoints: Fix build on !perf architecturesIngo Molnar2009-11-141-1/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | the arch/alpha build fails with: In file included from tip/kernel/exit.c:52: tip/include/linux/hw_breakpoint.h: In function 'hw_breakpoint_addr': tip/include/linux/hw_breakpoint.h:21: error: 'struct perf_event' has no member named 'attr' [...] Move these helper inlines inside the CONFIG_HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT ifdef. Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com> LKML-Reference: <1258114575-32655-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* hw-breakpoints: Provide an off-case for counter_arch_bp()Frederic Weisbecker2009-11-141-5/+10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | If an arch doesn't support the hw breakpoints, counter_arch_bp() has no off case to cover the missing breakpoint info structure from the perf event. The result is a build error in non-x86 configs. Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com> LKML-Reference: <1258114575-32655-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
* hw-breakpoints: Rewrite the hw-breakpoints layer on top of perf eventsFrederic Weisbecker2009-11-081-124/+119
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* hw-breakpoint: Move asm-generic/hw_breakpoint.h to linux/hw_breakpoint.hFrederic Weisbecker2009-11-051-0/+136
We plan to make the breakpoints parameters generic among architectures. For that it's better to move the asm-generic header to a generic linux header. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
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