powerpc, hw_breakpoints: Implement hw_breakpoints for 64-bit server processors

Implement perf-events based hw-breakpoint interfaces for PowerPC
64-bit server (Book III S) processors.  This allows access to a
given location to be used as an event that can be counted or
profiled by the perf_events subsystem.

This is done using the DABR (data breakpoint register), which can
also be used for process debugging via ptrace.  When perf_event
hw_breakpoint support is configured in, the perf_event subsystem
manages the DABR and arbitrates access to it, and ptrace then
creates a perf_event when it is requested to set a data breakpoint.

[Adopted suggestions from Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> to
- emulate_step() all system-wide breakpoints and single-step only the
  per-task breakpoints
- perform arch-specific cleanup before unregistration through
  arch_unregister_hw_breakpoint()
]

Signed-off-by: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
This commit is contained in:
K.Prasad
2010-06-15 11:35:19 +05:30
committed by Paul Mackerras
parent f7136c5150
commit 5aae8a5370
11 changed files with 495 additions and 0 deletions

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@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@
#include <linux/kernel_stat.h>
#include <linux/personality.h>
#include <linux/random.h>
#include <linux/hw_breakpoint.h>
#include <asm/pgtable.h>
#include <asm/uaccess.h>
@@ -462,8 +463,14 @@ struct task_struct *__switch_to(struct task_struct *prev,
#ifdef CONFIG_PPC_ADV_DEBUG_REGS
switch_booke_debug_regs(&new->thread);
#else
/*
* For PPC_BOOK3S_64, we use the hw-breakpoint interfaces that would
* schedule DABR
*/
#ifndef CONFIG_HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT
if (unlikely(__get_cpu_var(current_dabr) != new->thread.dabr))
set_dabr(new->thread.dabr);
#endif /* CONFIG_HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT */
#endif
@@ -642,7 +649,11 @@ void flush_thread(void)
{
discard_lazy_cpu_state();
#ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINTS
flush_ptrace_hw_breakpoint(current);
#else /* CONFIG_HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINTS */
set_debug_reg_defaults(&current->thread);
#endif /* CONFIG_HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINTS */
}
void
@@ -660,6 +671,9 @@ void prepare_to_copy(struct task_struct *tsk)
flush_altivec_to_thread(current);
flush_vsx_to_thread(current);
flush_spe_to_thread(current);
#ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT
flush_ptrace_hw_breakpoint(tsk);
#endif /* CONFIG_HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT */
}
/*