Software stepping checks for the correct handler by iterating over a list
of dynamically registered handlers and calling all of them until one
handles the exception.
This is the only generic way to handle software stepping handlers in arm64
as the exception does not provide an immediate that could be checked,
contrary to software breakpoints.
However, the registration mechanism is not exported and has only
two current users : the KGDB stepping handler, and the uprobe single step
handler.
Given that one comes from user mode and the other from kernel mode, call
the appropriate one by checking the source EL of the exception.
Add a stand-in that returns DBG_HOOK_ERROR when the configuration
options are not enabled.
Remove `arch_init_uprobes()` as it is not useful anymore and is
specific to arm64.
Unify the naming of the handler to XXX_single_step_handler(), making it
clear they are related.
Signed-off-by: Ada Couprie Diaz <ada.coupriediaz@arm.com>
Tested-by: Luis Claudio R. Goncalves <lgoncalv@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250707114109.35672-5-ada.coupriediaz@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Software breakpoints pass an immediate value in ESR ("comment") that can
be used to call a specialized handler (KGDB, KASAN...).
We do so in two different ways :
- During early boot, `early_brk64` statically checks against known
immediates and calls the corresponding handler,
- During init, handlers are dynamically registered into a list. When
called, the generic software breakpoint handler will iterate over
the list to find the appropriate handler.
The dynamic registration does not provide any benefit here as it is not
exported and all its uses are within the arm64 tree. It also depends on an
RCU list, whose safe access currently relies on the non-preemptible state
of `do_debug_exception`.
Replace the list iteration logic in `call_break_hooks` to call
the breakpoint handlers statically if they are enabled, like in
`early_brk64`.
Expose the handlers in their respective headers to be reachable from
`arch/arm64/kernel/debug-monitors.c` at link time.
Unify the naming of the software breakpoint handlers to XXX_brk_handler(),
making it clear they are related and to differentiate from the
hardware breakpoints.
Signed-off-by: Ada Couprie Diaz <ada.coupriediaz@arm.com>
Tested-by: Luis Claudio R. Goncalves <lgoncalv@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250707114109.35672-4-ada.coupriediaz@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
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Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Alexios Zavras <alexios.zavras@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal <allison@lohutok.net>
Reviewed-by: Enrico Weigelt <info@metux.net>
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190602204653.811534538@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Current versions of gdb do not interoperate cleanly with kgdb on arm64
systems because gdb and kgdb do not use the same register description.
This patch modifies kgdb to work with recent releases of gdb (>= 7.8.1).
Compatibility with gdb (after the patch is applied) is as follows:
gdb-7.6 and earlier Ok
gdb-7.7 series Works if user provides custom target description
gdb-7.8(.0) Works if user provides custom target description
gdb-7.8.1 and later Ok
When commit 44679a4f14 ("arm64: KGDB: Add step debugging support") was
introduced it was paired with a gdb patch that made an incompatible
change to the gdbserver protocol. This patch was eventually merged into
the gdb sources:
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=commit;h=a4d9ba85ec5597a6a556afe26b712e878374b9dd
The change to the protocol was mostly made to simplify big-endian support
inside the kernel gdb stub. Unfortunately the gdb project released
gdb-7.7.x and gdb-7.8.0 before the protocol incompatibility was identified
and reversed:
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=commit;h=bdc144174bcb11e808b4e73089b850cf9620a7ee
This leaves us in a position where kgdb still uses the no-longer-used
protocol; gdb-7.8.1, which restored the original behaviour, was
released on 2014-10-29.
I don't believe it is possible to detect/correct the protocol
incompatiblity which means the kernel must take a view about which
version of the gdb remote protocol is "correct". This patch takes the
view that the original/current version of the protocol is correct
and that version found in gdb-7.7.x and gdb-7.8.0 is anomalous.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Some of the KGDB macros used for generating the BRK instructions had the
wrong spelling for DBG and KGDB abbreviations.
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Add KGDB debug support for kernel debugging.
With this patch, basic KGDB debugging is possible.GDB register
layout is updated and GDB tool can establish connection with
target and can set/clear breakpoints.
Signed-off-by: Vijaya Kumar K <Vijaya.Kumar@caviumnetworks.com>
Reviewed-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
