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* hw-breakpoints: Change/Enforce some breakpoints policiesFrederic Weisbecker2010-05-011-35/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The current policies of breakpoints in x86 and SH are the following: - task bound breakpoints can only break on userspace addresses - cpu wide breakpoints can only break on kernel addresses The former rule prevents ptrace breakpoints to be set to trigger on kernel addresses, which is good. But as a side effect, we can't breakpoint on kernel addresses for task bound breakpoints. The latter rule simply makes no sense, there is no reason why we can't set breakpoints on userspace while performing cpu bound profiles. We want the following new policies: - task bound breakpoint can set userspace address breakpoints, with no particular privilege required. - task bound breakpoints can set kernelspace address breakpoints but must be privileged to do that. - cpu bound breakpoints can do what they want as they are privileged already. To implement these new policies, this patch checks if we are dealing with a kernel address breakpoint, if so and if the exclude_kernel parameter is set, we tell the user that the breakpoint is invalid, which makes a good generic ptrace protection. If we don't have exclude_kernel, ensure the user has the right privileges as kernel breakpoints are quite sensitive (risk of trap recursion attacks and global performance impacts). [ Paul Mundt: keep addr space check for sh signal delivery and fix double function declaration] Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: K. Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> 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> Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
* Merge branch 'perf/core' into perf/urgentIngo Molnar2010-03-041-10/+7
|\ | | | | | | | | | | Merge reason: Switch from pre-merge topical split to the post-merge urgent track Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| * x86/hw-breakpoints: Remove the name fieldFrederic Weisbecker2010-02-271-7/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Remove the name field from the arch_hw_breakpoint. We never deal with target symbols in the arch level, neither do we need to ever store it. It's a legacy for the previous version of the x86 breakpoint backend. Let's remove it. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
| * Merge commit 'v2.6.33' into perf/coreFrederic Weisbecker2010-02-271-23/+7
| |\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Merge reason: __percpu annotations need the corresponding sparse address space definition upstream. Conflicts: tools/perf/util/probe-event.c (trivial)
| * | x86/hw-breakpoints: Optimize return code from notifier chain in ↵K.Prasad2010-01-291-3/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | hw_breakpoint_handler Processing of debug exceptions in do_debug() can stop if it originated from a hw-breakpoint exception by returning NOTIFY_STOP in most cases. But for certain cases such as: a) user-space breakpoints with pending SIGTRAP signal delivery (as in the case of ptrace induced breakpoints). b) exceptions due to other causes than breakpoints We will continue to process the exception by returning NOTIFY_DONE. Signed-off-by: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Cc: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com> LKML-Reference: <20100128111415.GC13935@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
* | | hw-breakpoints: Remove stub unthrottle callbackFrederic Weisbecker2010-02-281-5/+0
| |/ |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We support event unthrottling in breakpoint events. It means that if we have more than sysctl_perf_event_sample_rate/HZ, perf will throttle, ignoring subsequent events until the next tick. So if ptrace exceeds this max rate, it will omit events, which breaks the ptrace determinism that is supposed to report every triggered breakpoints. This is likely to happen if we set sysctl_perf_event_sample_rate to 1. This patch removes support for unthrottling in breakpoint events to break throttling and restore ptrace determinism. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: 2.6.33.x <stable@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
* | hw-breakpoints: Accept breakpoints on NULL addressFrederic Weisbecker2010-02-191-23/+7
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Before we had a generic breakpoint API, ptrace was accepting breakpoints on NULL address in x86. The new API refuse them, without given strong reasons. We need to follow the previous behaviour as some userspace apps like Wine need such NULL breakpoints to ensure old emulated software protections are still working. This fixes a 2.6.32 - 2.6.33-x ptrace regression. Reported-and-tested-by: Michael Stefaniuc <mstefani@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Acked-by: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Cc: Maneesh Soni <maneesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Alexandre Julliard <julliard@winehq.org> Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: Maciej Rutecki <maciej.rutecki@gmail.com>
* hw-breakpoints: Use overflow handler instead of the event callbackFrederic Weisbecker2009-12-061-3/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* x86/hw-breakpoints: Don't lose GE flag while disabling a breakpointFrederic Weisbecker2009-11-261-8/+14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | When we schedule out a breakpoint from the cpu, we also incidentally remove the "Global exact breakpoint" flag from the breakpoint control register. It makes us losing the fine grained precision about the origin of the instructions that may trigger breakpoint exceptions for the other breakpoints running in this cpu. Reported-by: Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <1259211878-6013-1-git-send-regression-fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* x86: Rename global percpu symbol dr7 to cpu_dr7Tejun Heo2009-11-251-5/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Percpu symbols now occupy the same namespace as other global symbols and as such short global symbols without subsystem prefix tend to collide with local variables. dr7 percpu variable used by x86 was hit by this. Rename it to cpu_dr7. The rename also makes it more consistent with its fellow cpu_debugreg percpu variable. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>, Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> LKML-Reference: <20091125115856.GA17856@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
* hw-breakpoint: Attribute authorship of hw-breakpoint related filesK.Prasad2009-11-231-0/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* hw-breakpoints, x86: Fix modular KVM buildIngo Molnar2009-11-141-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This build error: arch/x86/kvm/x86.c:3655: error: implicit declaration of function 'hw_breakpoint_restore' Happens because in the CONFIG_KVM=m case there's no 'CONFIG_KVM' define in the kernel - it's CONFIG_KVM_MODULE in that case. Make the prototype available unconditionally. 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: Fix broken a.out format dumpFrederic Weisbecker2009-11-101-0/+35
| | | | | | | | | | | | Fix the broken a.out format dump. For now we only dump the ptrace breakpoints. TODO: Dump every perf breakpoints for the current thread, not only ptrace based ones. Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: "K. Prasad" <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
* hw-breakpoints: Rewrite the hw-breakpoints layer on top of perf eventsFrederic Weisbecker2009-11-081-136/+255
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* x86: hw_breakpoint.c arch_check_va_in_kernelspace and hw_breakpoint_handler ↵Jaswinder Singh Rajput2009-06-171-3/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | should be static arch_check_va_in_kernelspace() and hw_breakpoint_handler() is used only by same file so it should be static. Also fixed non-ANSI function declaration of function 'arch_uninstall_thread_hw_breakpoint' Fixed following sparse warnings : arch/x86/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c:124:42: warning: non-ANSI function declaration of function 'arch_uninstall_thread_hw_breakpoint' arch/x86/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c:169:5: warning: symbol 'arch_check_va_in_kernelspace' was not declared. Should it be static? arch/x86/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c:313:15: warning: symbol 'hw_breakpoint_handler' was not declared. Should it be static? Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com> Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Cc: "K.Prasad" <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <1245230059.2662.4.camel@ht.satnam> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* Merge branch 'linus' into tracing/hw-breakpointsIngo Molnar2009-06-171-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Conflicts: arch/x86/Kconfig arch/x86/kernel/traps.c arch/x86/power/cpu.c arch/x86/power/cpu_32.c kernel/Makefile Semantic conflict: arch/x86/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c Merge reason: Resolve the conflicts, move from put_cpu_no_sched() to put_cpu() in arch/x86/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* hw-breakpoints: reset bits in dr6 after the corresponding exception is handledK.Prasad2009-06-021-2/+11
| | | | | | | | | | | This patch resets the bit in dr6 after the corresponding exception is handled in code, so that we keep a clean track of the current virtual debug status register. [ Impact: keep track of breakpoints triggering completion ] Signed-off-by: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
* hw-breakpoints: x86 architecture implementation of Hardware Breakpoint ↵K.Prasad2009-06-021-0/+382
interfaces This patch introduces the arch-specific implementation of the generic hardware breakpoints in kernel/hw_breakpoint.c inside x86 specific directories. It contains functions which help to validate and serve requests using Hardware Breakpoint registers on x86 processors. [ fweisbec@gmail.com: fix conflict against kmemcheck ] 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>