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/x86/power/cpu.c | 6 ------ 1 file changed, 6 deletions(-) (limited to 'arch/x86/power') diff --git a/arch/x86/power/cpu.c b/arch/x86/power/cpu.c index e09a44f..0a979f3 100644 --- a/arch/x86/power/cpu.c +++ b/arch/x86/power/cpu.c @@ -105,7 +105,6 @@ static void __save_processor_state(struct saved_context *ctxt) ctxt->cr4 = read_cr4(); ctxt->cr8 = read_cr8(); #endif - hw_breakpoint_disable(); } /* Needed by apm.c */ @@ -144,11 +143,6 @@ static void fix_processor_context(void) #endif load_TR_desc(); /* This does ltr */ load_LDT(¤t->active_mm->context); /* This does lldt */ - - /* - * Now maybe reload the debug registers - */ - load_debug_registers(); } /** -- cgit v1.1