Re: [PATCH v9 7/7] arm64: kgdb: Roundup cpus using the debug IPI

[Mark Rutland]

On Mon, Aug 07, 2023 at 11:47:04AM +0100, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> On 2023-08-07 11:28, Mark Rutland wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 01, 2023 at 02:31:51PM -0700, Douglas Anderson wrote:
> > > From: Sumit Garg <sumit.garg@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > 
> > > Let's use the debug IPI for rounding up CPUs in kgdb. When the debug
> > > IPI is backed by an NMI (or pseudo NMI) then this will let us debug
> > > even hard locked CPUs. When the debug IPI isn't backed by an NMI then
> > > this won't really have any huge benefit but it will still work.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Sumit Garg <sumit.garg@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > > 
> > > Changes in v9:
> > > - Remove fallback for when debug IPI isn't available.
> > > - Renamed "NMI IPI" to "debug IPI" since it might not be backed by
> > > NMI.
> > > 
> > >  arch/arm64/kernel/ipi_debug.c |  5 +++++
> > >  arch/arm64/kernel/kgdb.c      | 14 ++++++++++++++
> > >  2 files changed, 19 insertions(+)
> > 
> > This looks fine to me, but I'd feel a bit happier if we had separate
> > SGIs for
> > the backtrace and the KGDB callback as they're logically unrelated.
> 
> Well, we're a bit stuck here.
> 
> We have exactly *one* spare SGI with GICv3, as we lose 8 of them
> to the secure side. One possibility would be to mux some of the
> lesser used IPIs onto two SGIs (one with standard priority, and
> one with NMI priority).

Understood; Doug and I suggested two options for that:

1) Unify/mux the IPI_CPU_STOP and IPI_CPU_CRASH_STOP IPIs

   The only *intended* difference between the two is that IPI_CPU_CRASH_STOP
   calls crash_save_cpu() before trying to stop the CPU, but the
   implementations have diverged significantly for unrelated reasons.

2) Remove IPI_WAKEUP

   We only use IPI_WAKEUP for the ACPI parking protocol, and we could reuse
   another IPI (e.g. IPI_RESCHEDULE) to achieve the same thing witout a
   dedicated IPI.

Thanks,
Mark.