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authorDouglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>2020-05-07 13:08:42 -0700
committerDaniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>2020-05-18 17:49:27 +0100
commitb1a57bbfcc17c87e5cc76695ebb0565380c7501a (patch)
treede1734b69780944b4231116eaa13bd7f47506d97 /lib/Kconfig.kgdb
parent68e55f61c13842baf825958129698c5371db432c (diff)
kgdb: Delay "kgdbwait" to dbg_late_init() by default
Using kgdb requires at least some level of architecture-level initialization. If nothing else, it relies on the architecture to pass breakpoints / crashes onto kgdb. On some architectures this all works super early, specifically it starts working at some point in time before Linux parses early_params's. On other architectures it doesn't. A survey of a few platforms: a) x86: Presumably it all works early since "ekgdboc" is documented to work here. b) arm64: Catching crashes works; with a simple patch breakpoints can also be made to work. c) arm: Nothing in kgdb works until paging_init() -> devicemaps_init() -> early_trap_init() Let's be conservative and, by default, process "kgdbwait" (which tells the kernel to drop into the debugger ASAP at boot) a bit later at dbg_late_init() time. If an architecture has tested it and wants to re-enable super early debugging, they can select the ARCH_HAS_EARLY_DEBUG KConfig option. We'll do this for x86 to start. It should be noted that dbg_late_init() is still called quite early in the system. Note that this patch doesn't affect when kgdb runs its init. If kgdb is set to initialize early it will still initialize when parsing early_param's. This patch _only_ inhibits the initial breakpoint from "kgdbwait". This means: * Without any extra patches arm64 platforms will at least catch crashes after kgdb inits. * arm platforms will catch crashes (and could handle a hardcoded kgdb_breakpoint()) any time after early_trap_init() runs, even before dbg_late_init(). Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200507130644.v4.4.I3113aea1b08d8ce36dc3720209392ae8b815201b@changeid Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
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diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.kgdb b/lib/Kconfig.kgdb
index 933680b59e2d..ffa7a76de086 100644
--- a/lib/Kconfig.kgdb
+++ b/lib/Kconfig.kgdb
@@ -124,4 +124,22 @@ config KDB_CONTINUE_CATASTROPHIC
CONFIG_KDB_CONTINUE_CATASTROPHIC == 2. KDB forces a reboot.
If you are not sure, say 0.
+config ARCH_HAS_EARLY_DEBUG
+ bool
+ default n
+ help
+ If an architecture can definitely handle entering the debugger
+ when early_param's are parsed then it select this config.
+ Otherwise, if "kgdbwait" is passed on the kernel command line it
+ won't actually be processed until dbg_late_init() just after the
+ call to kgdb_arch_late() is made.
+
+ NOTE: Even if this isn't selected by an architecture we will
+ still try to register kgdb to handle breakpoints and crashes
+ when early_param's are parsed, we just won't act on the
+ "kgdbwait" parameter until dbg_late_init(). If you get a
+ crash and try to drop into kgdb somewhere between these two
+ places you might or might not end up being able to use kgdb
+ depending on exactly how far along the architecture has initted.
+
endif # KGDB