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Diffstat (limited to 'arch/arm64')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/arm64/include/asm/kgdb.h | 45 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/arm64/kernel/kgdb.c | 14 |
2 files changed, 50 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kgdb.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kgdb.h index f69f69c..da84645 100644 --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kgdb.h +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kgdb.h @@ -38,25 +38,54 @@ extern int kgdb_fault_expected; #endif /* !__ASSEMBLY__ */ /* - * gdb is expecting the following registers layout. + * gdb remote procotol (well most versions of it) expects the following + * register layout. * * General purpose regs: * r0-r30: 64 bit * sp,pc : 64 bit - * pstate : 64 bit - * Total: 34 + * pstate : 32 bit + * Total: 33 + 1 * FPU regs: * f0-f31: 128 bit - * Total: 32 - * Extra regs * fpsr & fpcr: 32 bit - * Total: 2 + * Total: 32 + 2 * + * To expand a little on the "most versions of it"... when the gdb remote + * protocol for AArch64 was developed it depended on a statement in the + * Architecture Reference Manual that claimed "SPSR_ELx is a 32-bit register". + * and, as a result, allocated only 32-bits for the PSTATE in the remote + * protocol. In fact this statement is still present in ARM DDI 0487A.i. + * + * Unfortunately "is a 32-bit register" has a very special meaning for + * system registers. It means that "the upper bits, bits[63:32], are + * RES0.". RES0 is heavily used in the ARM architecture documents as a + * way to leave space for future architecture changes. So to translate a + * little for people who don't spend their spare time reading ARM architecture + * manuals, what "is a 32-bit register" actually means in this context is + * "is a 64-bit register but one with no meaning allocated to any of the + * upper 32-bits... *yet*". + * + * Perhaps then we should not be surprised that this has led to some + * confusion. Specifically a patch, influenced by the above translation, + * that extended PSTATE to 64-bit was accepted into gdb-7.7 but the patch + * was reverted in gdb-7.8.1 and all later releases, when this was + * discovered to be an undocumented protocol change. + * + * So... it is *not* wrong for us to only allocate 32-bits to PSTATE + * here even though the kernel itself allocates 64-bits for the same + * state. That is because this bit of code tells the kernel how the gdb + * remote protocol (well most versions of it) describes the register state. + * + * Note that if you are using one of the versions of gdb that supports + * the gdb-7.7 version of the protocol you cannot use kgdb directly + * without providing a custom register description (gdb can load new + * protocol descriptions at runtime). */ -#define _GP_REGS 34 +#define _GP_REGS 33 #define _FP_REGS 32 -#define _EXTRA_REGS 2 +#define _EXTRA_REGS 3 /* * general purpose registers size in bytes. * pstate is only 4 bytes. subtract 4 bytes diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/kgdb.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/kgdb.c index b67531a..b5f063e 100644 --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/kgdb.c +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/kgdb.c @@ -58,7 +58,17 @@ struct dbg_reg_def_t dbg_reg_def[DBG_MAX_REG_NUM] = { { "x30", 8, offsetof(struct pt_regs, regs[30])}, { "sp", 8, offsetof(struct pt_regs, sp)}, { "pc", 8, offsetof(struct pt_regs, pc)}, - { "pstate", 8, offsetof(struct pt_regs, pstate)}, + /* + * struct pt_regs thinks PSTATE is 64-bits wide but gdb remote + * protocol disagrees. Therefore we must extract only the lower + * 32-bits. Look for the big comment in asm/kgdb.h for more + * detail. + */ + { "pstate", 4, offsetof(struct pt_regs, pstate) +#ifdef CONFIG_CPU_BIG_ENDIAN + + 4 +#endif + }, { "v0", 16, -1 }, { "v1", 16, -1 }, { "v2", 16, -1 }, @@ -128,6 +138,8 @@ sleeping_thread_to_gdb_regs(unsigned long *gdb_regs, struct task_struct *task) memset((char *)gdb_regs, 0, NUMREGBYTES); thread_regs = task_pt_regs(task); memcpy((void *)gdb_regs, (void *)thread_regs->regs, GP_REG_BYTES); + /* Special case for PSTATE (check comments in asm/kgdb.h for details) */ + dbg_get_reg(33, gdb_regs + GP_REG_BYTES, thread_regs); } void kgdb_arch_set_pc(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long pc) |
