From 62a038d34db26771756cf3689e36de638bedd2c4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "K.Prasad" Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2009 23:43:33 +0530 Subject: hw-breakpoints: introducing generic hardware breakpoint handler interfaces 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 Signed-off-by: K.Prasad Reviewed-by: Alan Stern Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker --- arch/Kconfig | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) (limited to 'arch/Kconfig') diff --git a/arch/Kconfig b/arch/Kconfig index 78a35e9..1adf2d0 100644 --- a/arch/Kconfig +++ b/arch/Kconfig @@ -112,3 +112,7 @@ config HAVE_DMA_API_DEBUG config HAVE_DEFAULT_NO_SPIN_MUTEXES bool + +config HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT + bool + -- cgit v1.1 From 7c68af6e32c73992bad24107311f3433c89016e2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Avi Kivity Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2009 09:40:22 +0300 Subject: core, x86: Add user return notifiers Add a general per-cpu notifier that is called whenever the kernel is about to return to userspace. The notifier uses a thread_info flag and existing checks, so there is no impact on user return or context switch fast paths. This will be used initially to speed up KVM task switching by lazily updating MSRs. Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity LKML-Reference: <1253342422-13811-1-git-send-email-avi@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin --- arch/Kconfig | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) (limited to 'arch/Kconfig') diff --git a/arch/Kconfig b/arch/Kconfig index 7f418bb..4e312ff 100644 --- a/arch/Kconfig +++ b/arch/Kconfig @@ -83,6 +83,13 @@ config KRETPROBES def_bool y depends on KPROBES && HAVE_KRETPROBES +config USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER + bool + depends on HAVE_USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER + help + Provide a kernel-internal notification when a cpu is about to + switch to user mode. + config HAVE_IOREMAP_PROT bool @@ -126,4 +133,7 @@ config HAVE_DMA_API_DEBUG config HAVE_DEFAULT_NO_SPIN_MUTEXES bool +config HAVE_USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER + bool + source "kernel/gcov/Kconfig" -- cgit v1.1 From 24f1e32c60c45c89a997c73395b69c8af6f0a84e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Frederic Weisbecker Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 19:22:48 +0200 Subject: hw-breakpoints: Rewrite the hw-breakpoints layer on top of perf events 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 Cc: Prasad Cc: Alan Stern Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jan Kiszka Cc: Jiri Slaby Cc: Li Zefan Cc: Avi Kivity Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Mike Galbraith Cc: Masami Hiramatsu Cc: Paul Mundt --- arch/Kconfig | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) (limited to 'arch/Kconfig') diff --git a/arch/Kconfig b/arch/Kconfig index acb66439..eef3bbb 100644 --- a/arch/Kconfig +++ b/arch/Kconfig @@ -128,6 +128,9 @@ config HAVE_DEFAULT_NO_SPIN_MUTEXES config HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT bool + depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS + select ANON_INODES + select PERF_EVENTS source "kernel/gcov/Kconfig" -- cgit v1.1