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defcmd_in_progress is the state trace for command group processing
- within a command group or not - usable is an indicator if a command
set is valid (allocated/non-empty) - so use a bool for those binary
indication here.
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@osadl.org>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
If you have a CPU that fails to round up and then run 'btc' you'll end
up crashing in kdb becaue we dereferenced NULL. Let's add a check.
It's wise to also set the task to NULL when leaving the debugger so
that if we fail to round up on a later entry into the debugger we
won't backtrace a stale task.
Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
If we're using the default implementation of kgdb_roundup_cpus() that
uses smp_call_function_single_async() we can end up hanging
kgdb_roundup_cpus() if we try to round up a CPU that failed to round
up before.
Specifically smp_call_function_single_async() will try to wait on the
csd lock for the CPU that we're trying to round up. If the previous
round up never finished then that lock could still be held and we'll
just sit there hanging.
There's not a lot of use trying to round up a CPU that failed to round
up before. Let's keep a flag that indicates whether the CPU started
but didn't finish to round up before. If we see that flag set then
we'll skip the next round up.
In general we have a few goals here:
- We never want to end up calling smp_call_function_single_async()
when the csd is still locked. This is accomplished because
flush_smp_call_function_queue() unlocks the csd _before_ invoking
the callback. That means that when kgdb_nmicallback() runs we know
for sure the the csd is no longer locked. Thus when we set
"rounding_up = false" we know for sure that the csd is unlocked.
- If there are no timeouts rounding up we should never skip a round
up.
NOTE #1: In general trying to continue running after failing to round
up CPUs doesn't appear to be supported in the debugger. When I
simulate this I find that kdb reports "Catastrophic error detected"
when I try to continue. I can overrule and continue anyway, but it
should be noted that we may be entering the land of dragons here.
Possibly the "Catastrophic error detected" was added _because_ of the
future failure to round up, but even so this is an area of the code
that hasn't been strongly tested.
NOTE #2: I did a bit of testing before and after this change. I
introduced a 10 second hang in the kernel while holding a spinlock
that I could invoke on a certain CPU with 'taskset -c 3 cat /sys/...".
Before this change if I did:
- Invoke hang
- Enter debugger
- g (which warns about Catastrophic error, g again to go anyway)
- g
- Enter debugger
...I'd hang the rest of the 10 seconds without getting a debugger
prompt. After this change I end up in the debugger the 2nd time after
only 1 second with the standard warning about 'Timed out waiting for
secondary CPUs.'
I'll also note that once the CPU finished waiting I could actually
debug it (aka "btc" worked)
I won't promise that everything works perfectly if the errant CPU
comes back at just the wrong time (like as we're entering or exiting
the debugger) but it certainly seems like an improvement.
NOTE #3: setting 'kgdb_info[cpu].rounding_up = false' is in
kgdb_nmicallback() instead of kgdb_call_nmi_hook() because some
implementations override kgdb_call_nmi_hook(). It shouldn't hurt to
have it in kgdb_nmicallback() in any case.
NOTE #4: this logic is really only needed because there is no API call
like "smp_try_call_function_single_async()" or "smp_csd_is_locked()".
If such an API existed then we'd use it instead, but it seemed a bit
much to add an API like this just for kgdb.
Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
When I had lockdep turned on and dropped into kgdb I got a nice splat
on my system. Specifically it hit:
DEBUG_LOCKS_WARN_ON(current->hardirq_context)
Specifically it looked like this:
sysrq: SysRq : DEBUG
------------[ cut here ]------------
DEBUG_LOCKS_WARN_ON(current->hardirq_context)
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 0 at .../kernel/locking/lockdep.c:2875 lockdep_hardirqs_on+0xf0/0x160
CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 4.19.0 #27
pstate: 604003c9 (nZCv DAIF +PAN -UAO)
pc : lockdep_hardirqs_on+0xf0/0x160
...
Call trace:
lockdep_hardirqs_on+0xf0/0x160
trace_hardirqs_on+0x188/0x1ac
kgdb_roundup_cpus+0x14/0x3c
kgdb_cpu_enter+0x53c/0x5cc
kgdb_handle_exception+0x180/0x1d4
kgdb_compiled_brk_fn+0x30/0x3c
brk_handler+0x134/0x178
do_debug_exception+0xfc/0x178
el1_dbg+0x18/0x78
kgdb_breakpoint+0x34/0x58
sysrq_handle_dbg+0x54/0x5c
__handle_sysrq+0x114/0x21c
handle_sysrq+0x30/0x3c
qcom_geni_serial_isr+0x2dc/0x30c
...
...
irq event stamp: ...45
hardirqs last enabled at (...44): [...] __do_softirq+0xd8/0x4e4
hardirqs last disabled at (...45): [...] el1_irq+0x74/0x130
softirqs last enabled at (...42): [...] _local_bh_enable+0x2c/0x34
softirqs last disabled at (...43): [...] irq_exit+0xa8/0x100
---[ end trace adf21f830c46e638 ]---
Looking closely at it, it seems like a really bad idea to be calling
local_irq_enable() in kgdb_roundup_cpus(). If nothing else that seems
like it could violate spinlock semantics and cause a deadlock.
Instead, let's use a private csd alongside
smp_call_function_single_async() to round up the other CPUs. Using
smp_call_function_single_async() doesn't require interrupts to be
enabled so we can remove the offending bit of code.
In order to avoid duplicating this across all the architectures that
use the default kgdb_roundup_cpus(), we'll add a "weak" implementation
to debug_core.c.
Looking at all the people who previously had copies of this code,
there were a few variants. I've attempted to keep the variants
working like they used to. Specifically:
* For arch/arc we passed NULL to kgdb_nmicallback() instead of
get_irq_regs().
* For arch/mips there was a bit of extra code around
kgdb_nmicallback()
NOTE: In this patch we will still get into trouble if we try to round
up a CPU that failed to round up before. We'll try to round it up
again and potentially hang when we try to grab the csd lock. That's
not new behavior but we'll still try to do better in a future patch.
Suggested-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
Cc: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
Cc: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Richard Kuo <rkuo@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Paul Burton <paul.burton@mips.com>
Cc: James Hogan <jhogan@kernel.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Cc: Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
The function kgdb_roundup_cpus() was passed a parameter that was
documented as:
> the flags that will be used when restoring the interrupts. There is
> local_irq_save() call before kgdb_roundup_cpus().
Nobody used those flags. Anyone who wanted to temporarily turn on
interrupts just did local_irq_enable() and local_irq_disable() without
looking at them. So we can definitely remove the flags.
Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
Cc: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
Cc: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Richard Kuo <rkuo@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Paul Burton <paul.burton@mips.com>
Cc: James Hogan <jhogan@kernel.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Cc: Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
In preparation to enabling -Wimplicit-fallthrough, mark switch cases
where we are expecting to fall through.
Notice that in this particular case, I replaced the code comments with
a proper "fall through" annotation, which is what GCC is expecting
to find.
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
In preparation to enabling -Wimplicit-fallthrough, mark switch cases
where we are expecting to fall through.
Notice that in this particular case, I replaced the code comments with
a proper "fall through" annotation, which is what GCC is expecting
to find.
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
Replace the whole switch statement with a for loop. This makes the
code clearer and easy to read.
This also addresses the following Coverity warnings:
Addresses-Coverity-ID: 115090 ("Missing break in switch")
Addresses-Coverity-ID: 115091 ("Missing break in switch")
Addresses-Coverity-ID: 114700 ("Missing break in switch")
Suggested-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
[daniel.thompson@linaro.org: Tiny grammar change in description]
Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
gcc 8.1.0 warns with:
kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_support.c: In function ‘kallsyms_symbol_next’:
kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_support.c:239:4: warning: ‘strncpy’ specified bound depends on the length of the source argument [-Wstringop-overflow=]
strncpy(prefix_name, name, strlen(name)+1);
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_support.c:239:31: note: length computed here
Use strscpy() with the destination buffer size, and use ellipses when
displaying truncated symbols.
v2: Use strscpy()
Signed-off-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Cc: Jonathan Toppins <jtoppins@redhat.com>
Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Cc: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
Cc: kgdb-bugreport@lists.sourceforge.net
Reviewed-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
Since commit ad67b74d24 ("printk: hash addresses printed with %p"),
all pointers printed with %p are printed with hashed addresses
instead of real addresses in order to avoid leaking addresses in
dmesg and syslog. But this applies to kdb too, with is unfortunate:
Entering kdb (current=0x(ptrval), pid 329) due to Keyboard Entry
kdb> ps
15 sleeping system daemon (state M) processes suppressed,
use 'ps A' to see all.
Task Addr Pid Parent [*] cpu State Thread Command
0x(ptrval) 329 328 1 0 R 0x(ptrval) *sh
0x(ptrval) 1 0 0 0 S 0x(ptrval) init
0x(ptrval) 3 2 0 0 D 0x(ptrval) rcu_gp
0x(ptrval) 4 2 0 0 D 0x(ptrval) rcu_par_gp
0x(ptrval) 5 2 0 0 D 0x(ptrval) kworker/0:0
0x(ptrval) 6 2 0 0 D 0x(ptrval) kworker/0:0H
0x(ptrval) 7 2 0 0 D 0x(ptrval) kworker/u2:0
0x(ptrval) 8 2 0 0 D 0x(ptrval) mm_percpu_wq
0x(ptrval) 10 2 0 0 D 0x(ptrval) rcu_preempt
The whole purpose of kdb is to debug, and for debugging real addresses
need to be known. In addition, data displayed by kdb doesn't go into
dmesg.
This patch replaces all %p by %px in kdb in order to display real
addresses.
Fixes: ad67b74d24 ("printk: hash addresses printed with %p")
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
On a powerpc 8xx, 'btc' fails as follows:
Entering kdb (current=0x(ptrval), pid 282) due to Keyboard Entry
kdb> btc
btc: cpu status: Currently on cpu 0
Available cpus: 0
kdb_getarea: Bad address 0x0
when booting the kernel with 'debug_boot_weak_hash', it fails as well
Entering kdb (current=0xba99ad80, pid 284) due to Keyboard Entry
kdb> btc
btc: cpu status: Currently on cpu 0
Available cpus: 0
kdb_getarea: Bad address 0xba99ad80
On other platforms, Oopses have been observed too, see
https://github.com/linuxppc/linux/issues/139
This is due to btc calling 'btt' with %p pointer as an argument.
This patch replaces %p by %px to get the real pointer value as
expected by 'btt'
Fixes: ad67b74d24 ("printk: hash addresses printed with %p")
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
There are several definitions of those functions/macros in places that
mess with fixed-point load averages. Provide an official version.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix missed conversion in block/blk-iolatency.c]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180828172258.3185-5-hannes@cmpxchg.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Tested-by: Daniel Drake <drake@endlessm.com>
Cc: Christopher Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@fb.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Enderborg <peter.enderborg@sony.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Vinayak Menon <vinmenon@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* minor regression test cleanup
* formatting fixes for end user use of kdb
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Merge tag 'for_linus-4.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jwessel/kgdb
Pull kdb updates from Jason Wessel:
- fix 2032 time access issues and new compiler warnings
- minor regression test cleanup
- formatting fixes for end user use of kdb
* tag 'for_linus-4.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jwessel/kgdb:
kdb: use memmove instead of overlapping memcpy
kdb: use ktime_get_mono_fast_ns() instead of ktime_get_ts()
kdb: bl: don't use tab character in output
kdb: drop newline in unknown command output
kdb: make "mdr" command repeat
kdb: use __ktime_get_real_seconds instead of __current_kernel_time
misc: kgdbts: Display progress of asynchronous tests
gcc discovered that the memcpy() arguments in kdbnearsym() overlap, so
we should really use memmove(), which is defined to handle that correctly:
In function 'memcpy',
inlined from 'kdbnearsym' at /git/arm-soc/kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_support.c:132:4:
/git/arm-soc/include/linux/string.h:353:9: error: '__builtin_memcpy' accessing 792 bytes at offsets 0 and 8 overlaps 784 bytes at offset 8 [-Werror=restrict]
return __builtin_memcpy(p, q, size);
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
The kdb code will print the monotonic time by ktime_get_ts(), but
the ktime_get_ts() will be protected by a sequence lock, that will
introduce one deadlock risk if the lock was already held in the
context from which we entered the debugger.
Thus we can use the ktime_get_mono_fast_ns() to get the monotonic
time, which is NMI safe access to clock monotonic. Moreover we can
remove the 'struct timespec', which is not y2038 safe.
Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
The "bl" (list breakpoints) command prints a '\t' (tab) character
in its output, but on a console (video device), that just prints
some odd graphics character. Instead of printing a tab character,
just align the output with spaces.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Cc: kgdb-bugreport@lists.sourceforge.net
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
When an unknown command is entered, kdb prints "Unknown kdb command:"
and then the unknown text, including the newline character. This
causes the ending single-quote mark to be printed on the next line
by itself, so just change the ending newline character to a null
character (end of string) so that it won't be "printed."
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Cc: kgdb-bugreport@lists.sourceforge.net
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
The "mdr" command should repeat (continue) when only Enter/Return
is pressed, so make it do so.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Cc: kgdb-bugreport@lists.sourceforge.net
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
kdb is the only user of the __current_kernel_time() interface, which is
not y2038 safe and should be removed at some point.
The kdb code also goes to great lengths to print the time in a
human-readable format from 'struct timespec', again using a non-y2038-safe
re-implementation of the generic time_to_tm() code.
Using __current_kernel_time() here is necessary since the regular
accessors that require a sequence lock might hang when called during the
xtime update. However, this is safe in the particular case since kdb is
only interested in the tv_sec field that is updated atomically.
In order to make this y2038-safe, I'm converting the code to the generic
time64_to_tm helper, but that introduces the problem that we have no
interface like __current_kernel_time() that provides a 64-bit timestamp
in a lockless, safe and architecture-independent way. I have multiple
ideas for how to solve that:
- __ktime_get_real_seconds() is lockless, but can return
incorrect results on 32-bit architectures in the special case that
we are in the process of changing the time across the epoch, either
during the timer tick that overflows the seconds in 2038, or while
calling settimeofday.
- ktime_get_real_fast_ns() would work in this context, but does
require a call into the clocksource driver to return a high-resolution
timestamp. This may have undesired side-effects in the debugger,
since we want to limit the interactions with the rest of the kernel.
- Adding a ktime_get_real_fast_seconds() based on tk_fast_mono
plus tkr->base_real without the tk_clock_read() delta. Not sure about
the value of adding yet another interface here.
- Changing the existing ktime_get_real_seconds() to use
tk_fast_mono on 32-bit architectures rather than xtime_sec. I think
this could work, but am not entirely sure if this is an improvement.
I picked the first of those for simplicity here. It's technically
not correct but probably good enough as the time is only used for the
debugging output and the race will likely never be hit in practice.
Another downside is having to move the declaration into a public header
file.
Let me know if anyone has a different preference.
Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9775309/
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
- Rename from kdb_send_sig_info to kdb_send_sig
As there is no meaningful siginfo sent
- Use SEND_SIG_PRIV instead of generating a siginfo for a kdb
signal. The generated siginfo had a bogus rationale and was
not correct in the face of pid namespaces. SEND_SIG_PRIV
is simpler and actually correct.
- As the code grabs siglock just send the signal with siglock
held instead of dropping siglock and attempting to grab it again.
- Move the sig_valid test into kdb_kill where it can generate
a good error message.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
kallsyms_symbol_next() returns a boolean (true on success). Currently
kdb_read() tests the return value with an inequality that
unconditionally evaluates to true.
This is fixed in the obvious way and, since the conditional branch is
supposed to be unreachable, we also add a WARN_ON().
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
Cc: linux-stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
We are going to split <linux/sched/debug.h> out of <linux/sched.h>, which
will have to be picked up from other headers and a couple of .c files.
Create a trivial placeholder <linux/sched/debug.h> file that just
maps to <linux/sched.h> to make this patch obviously correct and
bisectable.
Include the new header in the files that are going to need it.
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
We are going to split <linux/sched/stat.h> out of <linux/sched.h>, which
will have to be picked up from other headers and a couple of .c files.
Create a trivial placeholder <linux/sched/stat.h> file that just
maps to <linux/sched.h> to make this patch obviously correct and
bisectable.
Include the new header in the files that are going to need it.
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
We are going to move softlockup APIs out of <linux/sched.h>, which
will have to be picked up from other headers and a couple of .c files.
<linux/nmi.h> already includes <linux/sched.h>.
Include the <linux/nmi.h> header in the files that are going to need it.
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
We are going to split <linux/sched/signal.h> out of <linux/sched.h>, which
will have to be picked up from other headers and a couple of .c files.
Create a trivial placeholder <linux/sched/signal.h> file that just
maps to <linux/sched.h> to make this patch obviously correct and
bisectable.
Include the new header in the files that are going to need it.
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
We are going to split <linux/sched/loadavg.h> out of <linux/sched.h>, which
will have to be picked up from a couple of .c files.
Create a trivial placeholder <linux/sched/topology.h> file that just
maps to <linux/sched.h> to make this patch obviously correct and
bisectable.
Include the new header in the files that are going to need it.
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
The <linux/sched.h> header includes various vmacache related defines,
which are arguably misplaced.
Move them to mm_types.h and minimize the sched.h impact by putting
all task vmacache state into a new 'struct vmacache' structure.
No change in functionality.
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
kdb_trap_printk allows to pass normal printk() messages to kdb via
vkdb_printk(). For example, it is used to get backtrace using the
classic show_stack(), see kdb_show_stack().
vkdb_printf() tries to avoid a potential infinite loop by disabling the
trap. But this approach is racy, for example:
CPU1 CPU2
vkdb_printf()
// assume that kdb_trap_printk == 0
saved_trap_printk = kdb_trap_printk;
kdb_trap_printk = 0;
kdb_show_stack()
kdb_trap_printk++;
Problem1: Now, a nested printk() on CPU0 calls vkdb_printf()
even when it should have been disabled. It will not
cause a deadlock but...
// using the outdated saved value: 0
kdb_trap_printk = saved_trap_printk;
kdb_trap_printk--;
Problem2: Now, kdb_trap_printk == -1 and will stay like this.
It means that all messages will get passed to kdb from
now on.
This patch removes the racy saved_trap_printk handling. Instead, the
recursion is prevented by a check for the locked CPU.
The solution is still kind of racy. A non-related printk(), from
another process, might get trapped by vkdb_printf(). And the wanted
printk() might not get trapped because kdb_printf_cpu is assigned. But
this problem existed even with the original code.
A proper solution would be to get_cpu() before setting kdb_trap_printk
and trap messages only from this CPU. I am not sure if it is worth the
effort, though.
In fact, the race is very theoretical. When kdb is running any of the
commands that use kdb_trap_printk there is a single active CPU and the
other CPUs should be in a holding pen inside kgdb_cpu_enter().
The only time this is violated is when there is a timeout waiting for
the other CPUs to report to the holding pen.
Finally, note that the situation is a bit schizophrenic. vkdb_printf()
explicitly allows recursion but only from KDB code that calls
kdb_printf() directly. On the other hand, the generic printk()
recursion is not allowed because it might cause an infinite loop. This
is why we could not hide the decision inside vkdb_printf() easily.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1480412276-16690-4-git-send-email-pmladek@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
kdb_printf_lock does not prevent other CPUs from entering the critical
section because it is ignored when KDB_STATE_PRINTF_LOCK is set.
The problematic situation might look like:
CPU0 CPU1
vkdb_printf()
if (!KDB_STATE(PRINTF_LOCK))
KDB_STATE_SET(PRINTF_LOCK);
spin_lock_irqsave(&kdb_printf_lock, flags);
vkdb_printf()
if (!KDB_STATE(PRINTF_LOCK))
BANG: The PRINTF_LOCK state is set and CPU1 is entering the critical
section without spinning on the lock.
The problem is that the code tries to implement locking using two state
variables that are not handled atomically. Well, we need a custom
locking because we want to allow reentering the critical section on the
very same CPU.
Let's use solution from Petr Zijlstra that was proposed for a similar
scenario, see
https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161018171513.734367391@infradead.org
This patch uses the same trick with cmpxchg(). The only difference is
that we want to handle only recursion from the same context and
therefore we disable interrupts.
In addition, KDB_STATE_PRINTF_LOCK is removed. In fact, we are not able
to set it a non-racy way.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1480412276-16690-3-git-send-email-pmladek@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
kdb_event state variable is only set but never checked in the kernel
code.
http://www.spinics.net/lists/kdb/msg01733.html suggests that this
variable affected WARN_CONSOLE_UNLOCKED() in the original
implementation. But this check never went upstream.
The semantic is unclear and racy. The value is updated after the
kdb_printf_lock is acquired and after it is released. It should be
symmetric at minimum. The value should be manipulated either inside or
outside the locked area.
Fortunately, it seems that the original function is gone and we could
simply remove the state variable.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1480412276-16690-2-git-send-email-pmladek@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Suggested-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
We've got a delay loop waiting for secondary CPUs. That loop uses
loops_per_jiffy. However, loops_per_jiffy doesn't actually mean how
many tight loops make up a jiffy on all architectures. It is quite
common to see things like this in the boot log:
Calibrating delay loop (skipped), value calculated using timer
frequency.. 48.00 BogoMIPS (lpj=24000)
In my case I was seeing lots of cases where other CPUs timed out
entering the debugger only to print their stack crawls shortly after the
kdb> prompt was written.
Elsewhere in kgdb we already use udelay(), so that should be safe enough
to use to implement our timeout. We'll delay 1 ms for 1000 times, which
should give us a full second of delay (just like the old code wanted)
but allow us to notice that we're done every 1 ms.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: simplifications, per Daniel]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1477091361-2039-1-git-send-email-dianders@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Cc: Brian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [4.0+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Commit 4bcc595ccd ("printk: reinstate KERN_CONT for printing
continuation lines") allows to define more message headers for a single
message. The motivation is that continuous lines might get mixed.
Therefore it make sense to define the right log level for every piece of
a cont line.
This patch introduces printk_skip_headers() that will skip all headers
and uses it in the kdb code instead of printk_skip_level().
This approach helps to fix other printk_skip_level() users
independently.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1478695291-12169-3-git-send-email-pmladek@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Cc: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>
Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.com>
Cc: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>
Cc: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>
Cc: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
It may be useful to debug writes to the readonly sections of memory,
so provide a cmdline "rodata=off" to allow for this. This can be
expanded in the future to support "log" and "write" modes, but that
will need to be architecture-specific.
This also makes KDB software breakpoints more usable, as read-only
mappings can now be disabled on any kernel.
Suggested-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: David Brown <david.brown@linaro.org>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: Emese Revfy <re.emese@gmail.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mathias Krause <minipli@googlemail.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: PaX Team <pageexec@freemail.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com
Cc: linux-arch <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1455748879-21872-3-git-send-email-keescook@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Makes it easier to handle init vs core cleanly, though the change is
fairly invasive across random architectures.
It simplifies the rbtree code immediately, however, while keeping the
core data together in the same cachline (now iff the rbtree code is
enabled).
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
On non-developer devices, kgdb prevents the device from rebooting
after a panic.
Incase of panics and exceptions, to allow the device to reboot, prevent
entering debug mode to avoid getting stuck waiting for the user to
interact with debugger.
To avoid entering the debugger on panic/exception without any extra
configuration, panic_timeout is being used which can be set via
/proc/sys/kernel/panic at run time and CONFIG_PANIC_TIMEOUT sets the
default value.
Setting panic_timeout indicates that the user requested machine to
perform unattended reboot after panic. We dont want to get stuck waiting
for the user input incase of panic.
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: kgdb-bugreport@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Android Kernel Team <kernel-team@android.com>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Colin Cross <ccross@android.com>
[Kiran: Added context to commit message.
panic_timeout is used instead of break_on_panic and
break_on_exception to honor CONFIG_PANIC_TIMEOUT
Modified the commit as per community feedback]
Signed-off-by: Kiran Raparthy <kiran.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
All current callers of kdb_getstr() can pass constant pointers via the
prompt argument. This patch adds a const qualification to make explicit
the fact that this is safe.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Currently kdb allows the output of comamnds to be filtered using the
| grep feature. This is useful but does not permit the output emitted
shortly after a string match to be examined without wading through the
entire unfiltered output of the command. Such a feature is particularly
useful to navigate function traces because these traces often have a
useful trigger string *before* the point of interest.
This patch reuses the existing filtering logic to introduce a simple
forward search to kdb that can be triggered from the more prompt.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Currently when the "| grep" feature is used to filter the output of a
command then the prompt is not displayed for the subsequent command.
Likewise any characters typed by the user are also not echoed to the
display. This rather disconcerting problem eventually corrects itself
when the user presses Enter and the kdb_grepping_flag is cleared as
kdb_parse() tries to make sense of whatever they typed.
This patch resolves the problem by moving the clearing of this flag
from the middle of command processing to the beginning.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Issuing a stack dump feels ergonomically wrong when entering due to NMI.
Entering due to NMI is normally a reaction to a user request, either the
NMI button on a server or a "magic knock" on a UART. Therefore the
backtrace behaviour on entry due to NMI should be like SysRq-g (no stack
dump) rather than like oops.
Note also that the stack dump does not offer any information that
cannot be trivial retrieved using the 'bt' command.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Currently when kdb traps printk messages then the raw log level prefix
(consisting of '\001' followed by a numeral) does not get stripped off
before the message is issued to the various I/O handlers supported by
kdb. This causes annoying visual noise as well as causing problems
grepping for ^. It is also a change of behaviour compared to normal usage
of printk() usage. For example <SysRq>-h ends up with different output to
that of kdb's "sr h".
This patch addresses the problem by stripping log levels from messages
before they are issued to the I/O handlers. printk() which can also
act as an i/o handler in some cases is special cased; if the caller
provided a log level then the prefix will be preserved when sent to
printk().
The addition of non-printable characters to the output of kdb commands is a
regression, albeit and extremely elderly one, introduced by commit
04d2c8c83d ("printk: convert the format for KERN_<LEVEL> to a 2 byte
pattern"). Note also that this patch does *not* restore the original
behaviour from v3.5. Instead it makes printk() from within a kdb command
display the message without any prefix (i.e. like printk() normally does).
Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
There was a follow on replacement patch against the prior
"kgdb: Timeout if secondary CPUs ignore the roundup".
See: https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/1/7/442
This patch is the delta vs the patch that was committed upstream:
* Fix an off-by-one error in kdb_cpu().
* Replace NR_CPUS with CONFIG_NR_CPUS to tell checkpatch that we
really want a static limit.
* Removed the "KGDB: " prefix from the pr_crit() in debug_core.c
(kgdb-next contains a patch which introduced pr_fmt() to this file
to the tag will now be applied automatically).
Cc: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
The output of KDB 'summary' command should report MemTotal, MemFree
and Buffers output in kB. Current codes report in unit of pages.
A define of K(x) as
is defined in the code, but not used.
This patch would apply the define to convert the values to kB.
Please include me on Cc on replies. I do not subscribe to linux-kernel.
Signed-off-by: Jay Lan <jlan@sgi.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
First two are minor fallout from the param rework which went in this merge
window.
Next three are a series which fixes a longstanding (but never previously
reported and unlikely , so no CC stable) race between kallsyms and freeing
the init section.
Finally, a minor cleanup as our module refcount will now be -1 during
unload.
Thanks,
Rusty.
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Merge tag 'fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux
Pull module and param fixes from Rusty Russell:
"Surprising number of fixes this merge window :(
The first two are minor fallout from the param rework which went in
this merge window.
The next three are a series which fixes a longstanding (but never
previously reported and unlikely , so no CC stable) race between
kallsyms and freeing the init section.
Finally, a minor cleanup as our module refcount will now be -1 during
unload"
* tag 'fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux:
module: make module_refcount() a signed integer.
module: fix race in kallsyms resolution during module load success.
module: remove mod arg from module_free, rename module_memfree().
module_arch_freeing_init(): new hook for archs before module->module_init freed.
param: fix uninitialized read with CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
param: initialize store function to NULL if not available.
James Bottomley points out that it will be -1 during unload. It's
only used for diagnostics, so let's not hide that as it could be a
clue as to what's gone wrong.
Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Acked-and-documention-added-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu <maasami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
-Convert printk( to pr_foo()
-Add pr_fmt
-Coalesce formats
Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
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>
Currently kiosk mode must be explicitly requested by the bootloader or
userspace. It is convenient to be able to change the default value in a
similar manner to CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ_DEFAULT_MASK.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Currently all kdb commands are enabled whenever kdb is deployed. This
makes it difficult to deploy kdb to help debug certain types of
systems.
Android phones provide one example; the FIQ debugger found on some
Android devices has a deliberately weak set of commands to allow the
debugger to enabled very late in the production cycle.
Certain kiosk environments offer another interesting case where an
engineer might wish to probe the system state using passive inspection
commands without providing sufficient power for a passer by to root it.
Without any restrictions, obtaining the root rights via KDB is a matter of
a few commands, and works everywhere. For example, log in as a normal
user:
cbou:~$ id
uid=1001(cbou) gid=1001(cbou) groups=1001(cbou)
Now enter KDB (for example via sysrq):
Entering kdb (current=0xffff8800065bc740, pid 920) due to Keyboard Entry
kdb> ps
23 sleeping system daemon (state M) processes suppressed,
use 'ps A' to see all.
Task Addr Pid Parent [*] cpu State Thread Command
0xffff8800065bc740 920 919 1 0 R 0xffff8800065bca20 *bash
0xffff880007078000 1 0 0 0 S 0xffff8800070782e0 init
[...snip...]
0xffff8800065be3c0 918 1 0 0 S 0xffff8800065be6a0 getty
0xffff8800065b9c80 919 1 0 0 S 0xffff8800065b9f60 login
0xffff8800065bc740 920 919 1 0 R 0xffff8800065bca20 *bash
All we need is the offset of cred pointers. We can look up the offset in
the distro's kernel source, but it is unnecessary. We can just start
dumping init's task_struct, until we see the process name:
kdb> md 0xffff880007078000
0xffff880007078000 0000000000000001 ffff88000703c000 ................
0xffff880007078010 0040210000000002 0000000000000000 .....!@.........
[...snip...]
0xffff8800070782b0 ffff8800073e0580 ffff8800073e0580 ..>.......>.....
0xffff8800070782c0 0000000074696e69 0000000000000000 init............
^ Here, 'init'. Creds are just above it, so the offset is 0x02b0.
Now we set up init's creds for our non-privileged shell:
kdb> mm 0xffff8800065bc740+0x02b0 0xffff8800073e0580
0xffff8800065bc9f0 = 0xffff8800073e0580
kdb> mm 0xffff8800065bc740+0x02b8 0xffff8800073e0580
0xffff8800065bc9f8 = 0xffff8800073e0580
And thus gaining the root:
kdb> go
cbou:~$ id
uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root)
cbou:~$ bash
root:~#
p.s. No distro enables kdb by default (although, with a nice KDB-over-KMS
feature availability, I would expect at least some would enable it), so
it's not actually some kind of a major issue.
Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
