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This patch rebase the implementation of the breakpoints API on top of
perf events instances.
Each breakpoints are now perf events that handle the
register scheduling, thread/cpu attachment, etc..
The new layering is now made as follows:
ptrace kgdb ftrace perf syscall
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Core breakpoint API /
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Breakpoints perf events
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Breakpoints PMU ---- Debug Register constraints handling
(Part of core breakpoint API)
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Hardware debug registers
Reasons of this rewrite:
- Use the centralized/optimized pmu registers scheduling,
implying an easier arch integration
- More powerful register handling: perf attributes (pinned/flexible
events, exclusive/non-exclusive, tunable period, etc...)
Impact:
- New perf ABI: the hardware breakpoints counters
- Ptrace breakpoints setting remains tricky and still needs some per
thread breakpoints references.
Todo (in the order):
- Support breakpoints perf counter events for perf tools (ie: implement
perf_bpcounter_event())
- Support from perf tools
Changes in v2:
- Follow the perf "event " rename
- The ptrace regression have been fixed (ptrace breakpoint perf events
weren't released when a task ended)
- Drop the struct hw_breakpoint and store generic fields in
perf_event_attr.
- Separate core and arch specific headers, drop
asm-generic/hw_breakpoint.h and create linux/hw_breakpoint.h
- Use new generic len/type for breakpoint
- Handle off case: when breakpoints api is not supported by an arch
Changes in v3:
- Fix broken CONFIG_KVM, we need to propagate the breakpoint api
changes to kvm when we exit the guest and restore the bp registers
to the host.
Changes in v4:
- Drop the hw_breakpoint_restore() stub as it is only used by KVM
- EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL hw_breakpoint_restore() as KVM can be built as a
module
- Restore the breakpoints unconditionally on kvm guest exit:
TIF_DEBUG_THREAD doesn't anymore cover every cases of running
breakpoints and vcpu->arch.switch_db_regs might not always be
set when the guest used debug registers.
(Waiting for a reliable optimization)
Changes in v5:
- Split-up the asm-generic/hw-breakpoint.h moving to
linux/hw_breakpoint.h into a separate patch
- Optimize the breakpoints restoring while switching from kvm guest
to host. We only want to restore the state if we have active
breakpoints to the host, otherwise we don't care about messed-up
address registers.
- Add asm/hw_breakpoint.h to Kbuild
- Fix bad breakpoint type in trace_selftest.c
Changes in v6:
- Fix wrong header inclusion in trace.h (triggered a build
error with CONFIG_FTRACE_SELFTEST
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
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# General architecture dependent options
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#
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config OPROFILE
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tristate "OProfile system profiling (EXPERIMENTAL)"
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depends on PROFILING
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depends on HAVE_OPROFILE
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depends on TRACING_SUPPORT
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select TRACING
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select RING_BUFFER
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select RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP
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help
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OProfile is a profiling system capable of profiling the
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whole system, include the kernel, kernel modules, libraries,
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and applications.
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If unsure, say N.
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config OPROFILE_IBS
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bool "OProfile AMD IBS support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
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default n
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depends on OPROFILE && SMP && X86
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help
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Instruction-Based Sampling (IBS) is a new profiling
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technique that provides rich, precise program performance
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information. IBS is introduced by AMD Family10h processors
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(AMD Opteron Quad-Core processor "Barcelona") to overcome
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the limitations of conventional performance counter
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sampling.
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If unsure, say N.
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config OPROFILE_EVENT_MULTIPLEX
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bool "OProfile multiplexing support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
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default n
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depends on OPROFILE && X86
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help
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The number of hardware counters is limited. The multiplexing
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feature enables OProfile to gather more events than counters
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are provided by the hardware. This is realized by switching
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between events at an user specified time interval.
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If unsure, say N.
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config HAVE_OPROFILE
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bool
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config KPROBES
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bool "Kprobes"
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depends on KALLSYMS && MODULES
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depends on HAVE_KPROBES
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help
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Kprobes allows you to trap at almost any kernel address and
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execute a callback function. register_kprobe() establishes
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a probepoint and specifies the callback. Kprobes is useful
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for kernel debugging, non-intrusive instrumentation and testing.
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If in doubt, say "N".
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config HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS
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bool
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help
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Some architectures are unable to perform unaligned accesses
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without the use of get_unaligned/put_unaligned. Others are
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unable to perform such accesses efficiently (e.g. trap on
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unaligned access and require fixing it up in the exception
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handler.)
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This symbol should be selected by an architecture if it can
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perform unaligned accesses efficiently to allow different
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code paths to be selected for these cases. Some network
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drivers, for example, could opt to not fix up alignment
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problems with received packets if doing so would not help
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much.
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See Documentation/unaligned-memory-access.txt for more
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information on the topic of unaligned memory accesses.
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config HAVE_SYSCALL_WRAPPERS
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bool
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config KRETPROBES
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def_bool y
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depends on KPROBES && HAVE_KRETPROBES
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config HAVE_IOREMAP_PROT
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bool
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config HAVE_KPROBES
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bool
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config HAVE_KRETPROBES
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bool
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#
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# An arch should select this if it provides all these things:
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#
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# task_pt_regs() in asm/processor.h or asm/ptrace.h
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# arch_has_single_step() if there is hardware single-step support
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# arch_has_block_step() if there is hardware block-step support
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# asm/syscall.h supplying asm-generic/syscall.h interface
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# linux/regset.h user_regset interfaces
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# CORE_DUMP_USE_REGSET #define'd in linux/elf.h
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# TIF_SYSCALL_TRACE calls tracehook_report_syscall_{entry,exit}
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# TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME calls tracehook_notify_resume()
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# signal delivery calls tracehook_signal_handler()
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#
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config HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK
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bool
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config HAVE_DMA_ATTRS
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bool
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config USE_GENERIC_SMP_HELPERS
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bool
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config HAVE_CLK
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bool
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help
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The <linux/clk.h> calls support software clock gating and
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thus are a key power management tool on many systems.
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config HAVE_DMA_API_DEBUG
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bool
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config HAVE_DEFAULT_NO_SPIN_MUTEXES
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bool
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config HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT
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bool
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depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
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select ANON_INODES
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select PERF_EVENTS
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source "kernel/gcov/Kconfig"
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