[PATCH 0/2] arm64: kgdb/kdb: Fix pending single-step debugging issues

From: Sumit Garg
Date: Mon Apr 11 2022 - 05:38:51 EST


This patch-set reworks pending fixes from Wei's series [1] to make
single-step debugging via kgdb/kdb on arm64 work as expected. There was
a prior discussion on ML [2] regarding if we should keep the interrupts
enabled during single-stepping but it turns out that in case of kgdb, it
is risky to enable interrupts as sometimes a resume after single
stepping an interrupt handler leads to following unbalanced locking
issue:

[ 300.328300] WARNING: bad unlock balance detected!
[ 300.328608] 5.18.0-rc1-00016-g3e732ebf7316-dirty #6 Not tainted
[ 300.329058] -------------------------------------
[ 300.329298] sh/173 is trying to release lock (dbg_slave_lock) at:
[ 300.329718] [<ffffd57c951c016c>] kgdb_cpu_enter+0x7ac/0x820
[ 300.330029] but there are no more locks to release!
[ 300.330265]
[ 300.330265] other info that might help us debug this:
[ 300.330668] 4 locks held by sh/173:
[ 300.330891] #0: ffff4f5e454d8438 (sb_writers#3){.+.+}-{0:0}, at: vfs_write+0x98/0x204
[ 300.331735] #1: ffffd57c973bc2f0 (dbg_slave_lock){+.+.}-{2:2}, at: kgdb_cpu_enter+0x5b4/0x820
[ 300.332259] #2: ffffd57c973a9460 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:2}, at: kgdb_cpu_enter+0xe0/0x820
[ 300.332717] #3: ffffd57c973bc2a8 (dbg_master_lock){....}-{2:2}, at: kgdb_cpu_enter+0x1ec/0x820

So, I choose to keep interrupts disabled specifically for kgdb. This
series has been rebased to Linux 5.18-rc1 and I have dropped Doug's
review and test tags as there is significant rework involved.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20200509214159.19680-1-liwei391@xxxxxxxxxx/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAD=FV=Voyfq3Qz0T3RY+aYWYJ0utdH=P_AweB=13rcV8GDBeyQ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/

Sumit Garg (2):
arm64: kgdb: Fix incorrect single stepping into the irq handler
arm64: kgdb: Set PSTATE.SS to 1 to re-enable single-step

arch/arm64/include/asm/debug-monitors.h | 1 +
arch/arm64/kernel/debug-monitors.c | 5 ++++
arch/arm64/kernel/kgdb.c | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++++--
3 files changed, 39 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

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