Currently if an active CPU fails to respond to a roundup request the CPU
that requested the roundup will become stuck. This needlessly reduces the
robustness of the debugger.
This patch introduces a timeout allowing the system state to be examined
even when the system contains unresponsive processors. It also modifies
kdb's cpu command to make it censor attempts to switch to unresponsive
processors and to report their state as (D)ead.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
This patch adds a kgdb_nmicallin() interface that can be used by
external NMI handlers to call the KGDB/KDB handler. The primary
need for this is for those types of NMI interrupts where all the
CPUs have already received the NMI signal. Therefore no
send_IPI(NMI) is required, and in fact it will cause a 2nd
unhandled NMI to occur. This generates the "Dazed and Confuzed"
messages.
Since all the CPUs are getting the NMI at roughly the same time,
it's not guaranteed that the first CPU that hits the NMI handler
will manage to enter KGDB and set the dbg_master_lock before the
slaves start entering. The new argument "send_ready" was added
for KGDB to signal the NMI handler to release the slave CPUs for
entry into KGDB.
Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Acked-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Reviewed-by: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com>
Reviewed-by: Hedi Berriche <hedi@sgi.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20131002151417.928886849@asylum.americas.sgi.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
The 'ssb' command can only be handled when we have a disassembler, to check for
branches, so remove the 'ssb' command for now.
Signed-off-by: Vincent Stehlé <vincent.stehle@laposte.net>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Although invasive kdb commands are not supported via kgdb, some useful
non-invasive commands like bt* require basic kdb state to be setup before
calling into the kdb code. Factor out some of this code and call it before
and after executing kdb commands via kgdb.
Signed-off-by: Matt Klein <mklein@twitter.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Currently kernel never set KGDB_REASON_NMI. We do now, when we enter
KGDB/KDB from an NMI.
This is not to be confused with kgdb_nmicallback(), NMI callback is
an entry for the slave CPUs during CPUs roundup, but REASON_NMI is the
entry for the master CPU.
Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
These files were getting <linux/module.h> via an implicit non-obvious
path, but we want to crush those out of existence since they cost
time during compiles of processing thousands of lines of headers
for no reason. Give them the lightweight header that just contains
the EXPORT_SYMBOL infrastructure.
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
The DOING_KGDB2 was originally a state variable for one of the two
ways to automatically transition from kdb to kgdb. Purge all these
variables and just use one single state for the transition.
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
When switching from kdb mode to kgdb mode packets were getting lost
depending on the size of the fifo queue of the serial chip. When gdb
initially connects if it is in kdb mode it should entirely send any
character buffer over to the gdbstub when switching connections.
Previously kdb was zero'ing out the character buffer and this could
lead to gdb failing to connect at all, or a lengthy pause could occur
on the initial connect.
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
The kdb shell needs to enforce switching back to the original CPU that
took the exception before restoring normal kernel execution. Resuming
from a different CPU than what took the original exception will cause
problems with spin locks that are freed from the a different processor
than had taken the lock.
The special logic in dbg_cpu_switch() can go away entirely with
because the state of what cpus want to be masters or slaves will
remain unchanged between entry and exit of the debug_core exception
context.
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
The design of the kdb shell requires that every device that can
provide input to kdb have a polling routine that exits immediately if
there is no character available. This is required in order to get the
page scrolling mechanism working.
Changing the kernel debugger I/O API to require all polling character
routines to exit immediately if there is no data allows the kernel
debugger to process multiple input channels.
NO_POLL_CHAR will be the return code to the polling routine when ever
there is no character available.
CC: linux-serial@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
This patch contains only the kdb core. Because the change set was
large, it was split. The next patch in the series includes the
instrumentation into the core kernel which are mainly helper functions
for kdb.
This work is directly derived from kdb v4.4 found at:
ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/kdb/download/v4.4/
The kdb internals have been re-organized to make them mostly platform
independent and to connect everything to the debug core which is used by
gdbstub (which has long been known as kgdb).
The original version of kdb was 58,000 lines worth of changes to
support x86. From that implementation only the kdb shell, and basic
commands for memory access, runcontrol, lsmod, and dmesg where carried
forward.
This is a generic implementation which aims to cover all the current
architectures using the kgdb core: ppc, arm, x86, mips, sparc, sh and
blackfin. More archictectures can be added by implementing the
architecture specific kgdb functions.
[mort@sgi.com: Compile fix with hugepages enabled]
[mort@sgi.com: Clean breakpoint code renaming kdba_ -> kdb_]
[mort@sgi.com: fix new line after printing registers]
[mort@sgi.com: Remove the concept of global vs. local breakpoints]
[mort@sgi.com: Rework kdb_si_swapinfo to use more generic name]
[mort@sgi.com: fix the information dump macros, remove 'arch' from the names]
[sfr@canb.auug.org.au: include fixup to include linux/slab.h]
CC: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Hicks <mort@sgi.com>
Daniel Thompson