Re: [PATCH v5 4/5] arm64: kgdb: Round up cpus using IPI as NMI

From: Marc Zyngier
Date: Mon Oct 19 2020 - 08:15:52 EST


On 2020-10-14 12:12, Sumit Garg wrote:
arm64 platforms with GICv3 or later supports pseudo NMIs which can be
leveraged to round up CPUs which are stuck in hard lockup state with
interrupts disabled that wouldn't be possible with a normal IPI.

So instead switch to round up CPUs using IPI turned as NMI. And in
case a particular arm64 platform doesn't supports pseudo NMIs,
this IPI will act as a normal IPI which maintains existing kgdb
functionality.

Signed-off-by: Sumit Garg <sumit.garg@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/arm64/include/asm/kgdb.h | 8 ++++++++
arch/arm64/kernel/ipi_nmi.c | 5 ++++-
arch/arm64/kernel/kgdb.c | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
3 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kgdb.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kgdb.h
index 21fc85e..6f3d3af 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kgdb.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kgdb.h
@@ -24,6 +24,14 @@ static inline void arch_kgdb_breakpoint(void)
extern void kgdb_handle_bus_error(void);
extern int kgdb_fault_expected;

+#ifdef CONFIG_KGDB
+extern void ipi_kgdb_nmicallback(int cpu, void *regs);
+#else
+static inline void ipi_kgdb_nmicallback(int cpu, void *regs)
+{
+}
+#endif
+
#endif /* !__ASSEMBLY__ */

/*
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/ipi_nmi.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/ipi_nmi.c
index a959256..e0a9e03 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/ipi_nmi.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/ipi_nmi.c
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@

#include <linux/interrupt.h>
#include <linux/irq.h>
+#include <linux/kgdb.h>
#include <linux/smp.h>

#include <asm/nmi.h>
@@ -26,7 +27,9 @@ void arch_send_call_nmi_func_ipi_mask(cpumask_t *mask)

static irqreturn_t ipi_nmi_handler(int irq, void *data)
{
- /* nop, NMI handlers for special features can be added here. */
+ unsigned int cpu = smp_processor_id();
+
+ ipi_kgdb_nmicallback(cpu, get_irq_regs());

Please add a return value to ipi_kgdb_nmicallback(), and check it
before returning IRQ_HANDLED.

Thinking a bit more about the whole thing, you should have a way to
avoid requesting the NMI if there is no user for it (there is nothing
worse than an enabled interrupt without handlers...).


return IRQ_HANDLED;
}
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/kgdb.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/kgdb.c
index 1a157ca3..0991275 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/kgdb.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/kgdb.c
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@

#include <asm/debug-monitors.h>
#include <asm/insn.h>
+#include <asm/nmi.h>
#include <asm/traps.h>

struct dbg_reg_def_t dbg_reg_def[DBG_MAX_REG_NUM] = {
@@ -353,3 +354,23 @@ int kgdb_arch_remove_breakpoint(struct kgdb_bkpt *bpt)
return aarch64_insn_write((void *)bpt->bpt_addr,
*(u32 *)bpt->saved_instr);
}
+
+void ipi_kgdb_nmicallback(int cpu, void *regs)
+{
+ if (atomic_read(&kgdb_active) != -1)
+ kgdb_nmicallback(cpu, regs);
+}
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_SMP

There is no such thing as an arm64 UP kernel.

+void kgdb_roundup_cpus(void)
+{
+ struct cpumask mask;
+
+ cpumask_copy(&mask, cpu_online_mask);
+ cpumask_clear_cpu(raw_smp_processor_id(), &mask);
+ if (cpumask_empty(&mask))
+ return;
+
+ arch_send_call_nmi_func_ipi_mask(&mask);

Surely you can come up with a less convoluted name for this function.
arm64_send_nmi() would be plenty in my opinion.

+}
+#endif

Thanks,

M.
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