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Linus Torvalds
3cfb07743a KGDB/KDB fixes and cleanups
Cleanups
    Remove kdb ssb command - there is no in kernel disassembler to support it
    Remove kdb ll command - Always caused a kernel oops and there were no
        bug reports so no one was using this command
    Use kernel ARRAY_SIZE macro instead of array computations
 
  Fixes
    Stop oops in kdb if user executes kdb_defcmd with args
    kdb help command truncated text
    ppc64 support for kgdbts
    Add missing kconfig option from original kdb port for dealing with
       catastrophic kernel crashes such that you can reboot automatically
       on continue from kdb
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Merge tag 'for_linux-3.9' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jwessel/kgdb

Pull KGDB/KDB fixes and cleanups from Jason Wessel:
 "For a change we removed more code than we added.  If people aren't
  using it we shouldn't be carrying it.  :-)

  Cleanups:
   - Remove kdb ssb command - there is no in kernel disassembler to
     support it

   - Remove kdb ll command - Always caused a kernel oops and there were
     no bug reports so no one was using this command

   - Use kernel ARRAY_SIZE macro instead of array computations

  Fixes:
   - Stop oops in kdb if user executes kdb_defcmd with args

   - kdb help command truncated text

   - ppc64 support for kgdbts

   - Add missing kconfig option from original kdb port for dealing with
     catastrophic kernel crashes such that you can reboot automatically
     on continue from kdb"

* tag 'for_linux-3.9' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jwessel/kgdb:
  kdb: Remove unhandled ssb command
  kdb: Prevent kernel oops with kdb_defcmd
  kdb: Remove the ll command
  kdb_main: fix help print
  kdb: Fix overlap in buffers with strcpy
  Fixed dead ifdef block by adding missing Kconfig option.
  kdb: Setup basic kdb state before invoking commands via kgdb
  kdb: use ARRAY_SIZE where possible
  kgdb/kgdbts: support ppc64
  kdb: A fix for kdb command table expansion
2013-03-02 08:31:39 -08:00
Matt Klein
00370b8f8d kdb: Setup basic kdb state before invoking commands via kgdb
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>
2013-03-02 08:52:17 -06:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
16559ae48c kgdb: remove #include <linux/serial_8250.h> from kgdb.h
There's no reason kgdb.h itself needs to include the 8250 serial port
header file.  So push it down to the _very_ limited number of individual
drivers that need the values in that file, and fix up the places where
people really wanted serial_core.h and platform_device.h.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-02-04 15:35:26 -08:00
Jason Wessel
2366e04784 kgdb,debug-core,gdbstub: Hook the reboot notifier for debugger detach
The gdbstub and kdb should get detached if the system is rebooting.
Calling gdbstub_exit() will set the proper debug core state and send a
message to any debugger that is connected to correctly detach.

An attached debugger will receive the exit code from
include/linux/reboot.h based on SYS_HALT, SYS_REBOOT, etc...

Reported-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
2012-03-22 15:07:15 -05:00
Jan Kiszka
9fbe465efc kgdb: Respect that flush op is optional
Not all kgdb I/O drivers implement a flush operation. Adjust
gdbstub_exit accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
2012-03-22 15:07:15 -05:00
Andy Shevchenko
50e1499f46 kgdb: follow rename pack_hex_byte() to hex_byte_pack()
There is no functional change.

Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Koichi Yasutake <yasutake.koichi@jp.panasonic.com>
Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-10-31 17:30:56 -07:00
Jason Wessel
f679c4985b kdb,kgdb: Implement switch and pass buffer from kdb -> gdb
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>
2011-08-01 13:23:59 -05:00
David Howells
d57f078b19 KGDB: Notify GDB of machine halt, reboot or power off
Notify GDB of the machine halting, rebooting or powering off by sending it an
exited command (remote protocol command 'W').  This is done by calling:

	void gdbstub_exit(int status)

from the arch's machine_{halt,restart,power_off}() functions with an
appropriate exit status to be reported to GDB.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2011-03-18 16:54:31 +00:00
Linus Torvalds
89a6c8cb9e Merge branch 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jwessel/linux-2.6-kgdb
* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jwessel/linux-2.6-kgdb:
  debug_core,kdb: fix crash when arch does not have single step
  kgdb,x86: use macro HBP_NUM to replace magic number 4
  kgdb,mips: remove unused kgdb_cpu_doing_single_step operations
  mm,kdb,kgdb: Add a debug reference for the kdb kmap usage
  KGDB: Remove set but unused newPC
  ftrace,kdb: Allow dumping a specific cpu's buffer with ftdump
  ftrace,kdb: Extend kdb to be able to dump the ftrace buffer
  kgdb,powerpc: Replace hardcoded offset by BREAK_INSTR_SIZE
  arm,kgdb: Add ability to trap into debugger on notify_die
  gdbstub: do not directly use dbg_reg_def[] in gdb_cmd_reg_set()
  gdbstub: Implement gdbserial 'p' and 'P' packets
  kgdb,arm: Individual register get/set for arm
  kgdb,mips: Individual register get/set for mips
  kgdb,x86: Individual register get/set for x86
  kgdb,kdb: individual register set and and get API
  gdbstub: Optimize kgdb's "thread:" response for the gdb serial protocol
  kgdb: remove custom hex_to_bin()implementation
2010-08-05 15:59:48 -07:00
Jason Wessel
6d855b1d83 gdbstub: do not directly use dbg_reg_def[] in gdb_cmd_reg_set()
Presently the usable registers definitions on x86 are not contiguous
for kgdb.  The x86 kgdb uses a case statement for the sparse register
accesses.  The array which defines the registers (dbg_reg_def) should
not be used directly in order to safely work with sparse register
definitions.

Specifically there was a problem when gdb accesses ORIG_AX, which is
accessed only through the case statement.

This patch encodes register memory using the size information provided
from the debugger which avoids the need to look up the size of the
register.  The dbg_set_reg() function always further validates the
inputs from the debugger.

Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Dongdong Deng <dongdong.deng@windriver.com>
2010-08-05 09:22:22 -05:00
Jason Wessel
55751145dc gdbstub: Implement gdbserial 'p' and 'P' packets
The gdbserial 'p' and 'P' packets allow gdb to individually get and
set registers instead of querying for all the available registers.

Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
2010-08-05 09:22:21 -05:00
Jason Wessel
534af10823 kgdb,kdb: individual register set and and get API
The kdb shell specification includes the ability to get and set
architecture specific registers by name.

For the time being individual register get and set will be implemented
on a per architecture basis.  If an architecture defines
DBG_MAX_REG_NUM > 0 then kdb and the gdbstub will use the capability
for individually getting and setting architecture specific registers.

Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
2010-08-05 09:22:20 -05:00
Jason Wessel
84a0bd5b28 gdbstub: Optimize kgdb's "thread:" response for the gdb serial protocol
The gdb debugger understands how to parse short versions of the thread
reference string as long as the bytes are paired in sets of two
characters.  The kgdb implementation was always sending 8 leading
zeros which could be omitted, and further optimized in the case of
non-negative thread numbers.  The negative numbers are used to
reference a specific cpu in the case of kgdb.

An example of the previous i386 stop packet looks like:
    T05thread:00000000000003bb;

New stop packet response:
    T05thread:03bb;

The previous ThreadInfo response looks like:
    m00000000fffffffe,0000000000000001,0000000000000002,0000000000000003,0000000000000004,0000000000000005,0000000000000006,0000000000000007,000000000000000c,0000000000000088,000000000000008a,000000000000008b,000000000000008c,000000000000008d,000000000000008e,00000000000000d4,00000000000000d5,00000000000000dd

New ThreadInfo response:
    mfffffffe,01,02,03,04,05,06,07,0c,88,8a,8b,8c,8d,8e,d4,d5,dd

A few bytes saved means better response time when using kgdb over a
serial line.

Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
2010-08-05 09:22:19 -05:00
Andy Shevchenko
a9fa20a7af kgdb: remove custom hex_to_bin()implementation
Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <ext-andriy.shevchenko@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
2010-08-05 09:22:19 -05:00
Jiri Kosina
d790d4d583 Merge branch 'master' into for-next 2010-08-04 15:14:38 +02:00
Jason Wessel
fb82c0ff27 repair gdbstub to match the gdbserial protocol specification
The gdbserial protocol handler should return an empty packet instead
of an error string when ever it responds to a command it does not
implement.

The problem cases come from a debugger client sending
qTBuffer, qTStatus, qSearch, qSupported.

The incorrect response from the gdbstub leads the debugger clients to
not function correctly.  Recent versions of gdb will not detach correctly as a result of this behavior.

Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Dongdong Deng <dongdong.deng@windriver.com>
2010-07-21 19:27:05 -05:00
Pavel Machek
a2531293db update email address
pavel@suse.cz no longer works, replace it with working address.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2010-07-19 10:56:54 +02:00
Jason Wessel
a0de055cf6 kgdb: gdb "monitor" -> kdb passthrough
One of the driving forces behind integrating another front end (kdb)
to the debug core is to allow front end commands to be accessible via
gdb's monitor command.  It is true that you could write gdb macros to
get certain data, but you may want to just use gdb to access the
commands that are available in the kdb front end.

This patch implements the Rcmd gdb stub packet.  In gdb you access
this with the "monitor" command.  For instance you could type "monitor
help", "monitor lsmod" or "monitor ps A" etc...

There is no error checking or command restrictions on what you can and
cannot access at this point.  Doing something like trying to set
breakpoints with the monitor command is going to cause nothing but
problems.  Perhaps in the future only the commands that are actually
known to work with the gdb monitor command will be available.

Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
2010-05-20 21:04:24 -05:00
Jason Wessel
f5316b4aea kgdb,8250,pl011: Return immediately from console poll
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>
2010-05-20 21:04:22 -05:00
Jason Wessel
dcc7871128 kgdb: core changes to support kdb
These are the minimum changes to the kgdb core in order to enable an
API to connect a new front end (kdb) to the debug core.

This patch introduces the dbg_kdb_mode variable controls where the
user level I/O is routed.  It will be routed to the gdbstub (kgdb) or
to the kdb front end which is a simple shell available over the kgdboc
connection.

You can switch back and forth between kdb or the gdb stub mode of
operation dynamically.  From gdb stub mode you can blindly type
"$3#33", or from the kdb mode you can enter "kgdb" to switch to the
gdb stub.

The logic in the debug core depends on kdb to look for the typical gdb
connection sequences and return immediately with KGDB_PASS_EVENT if a
gdb serial command sequence is detected.  That should allow a
reasonably seamless transition between kdb -> gdb without leaving the
kernel exception state.  The two gdb serial queries that kdb is
responsible for detecting are the "?" and "qSupported" packets.

CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Acked-by: Martin Hicks <mort@sgi.com>
2010-05-20 21:04:21 -05:00
Jason Wessel
53197fc495 Separate the gdbstub from the debug core
Split the former kernel/kgdb.c into debug_core.c which contains the
kernel debugger exception logic and to the gdbstub.c which contains
the logic for allowing gdb to talk to the debug core.

This also created a private include file called debug_core.h which
contains all the definitions to glue the debug_core to any other
debugger connections.

CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
2010-05-20 21:04:19 -05:00