From: Jason Wessel Subject: [PATCH] powerpc,kgdb: Introduce low level trap catching The only way the debugger can handle a trap in inside rcu_lock, notify_die, or atomic_notifier_call_chain without a recursive fault is to allow the kernel debugger to handle the exception first in program_check_exception(). The other change here is to make sure that kgdb_handle_exception() is called with correct parameters when catching an oops, because kdb needs to know if the entry was an oops, single step, or breakpoint exception. [benh@kernel.crashing.org: move debugger_bpt instead of #ifdef] CC: Benjamin Herrenschmidt CC: Paul Mackerras Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel --- arch/powerpc/kernel/kgdb.c | 6 ++++-- arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c | 6 ++++-- 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/kgdb.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/kgdb.c @@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ #include #include #include +#include #include #include #include @@ -115,7 +116,8 @@ void kgdb_roundup_cpus(unsigned long fla /* KGDB functions to use existing PowerPC64 hooks. */ static int kgdb_debugger(struct pt_regs *regs) { - return kgdb_handle_exception(0, computeSignal(TRAP(regs)), 0, regs); + return !kgdb_handle_exception(1, computeSignal(TRAP(regs)), + DIE_OOPS, regs); } static int kgdb_handle_breakpoint(struct pt_regs *regs) @@ -123,7 +125,7 @@ static int kgdb_handle_breakpoint(struct if (user_mode(regs)) return 0; - if (kgdb_handle_exception(0, SIGTRAP, 0, regs) != 0) + if (kgdb_handle_exception(1, SIGTRAP, 0, regs) != 0) return 0; if (*(u32 *) (regs->nip) == *(u32 *) (&arch_kgdb_ops.gdb_bpt_instr)) --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c @@ -809,12 +809,14 @@ void __kprobes program_check_exception(s return; } if (reason & REASON_TRAP) { + /* Debugger is first in line to stop recursive faults in + * rcu_lock, notify_die, or atomic_notifier_call_chain */ + if (debugger_bpt(regs)) + return; /* trap exception */ if (notify_die(DIE_BPT, "breakpoint", regs, 5, 5, SIGTRAP) == NOTIFY_STOP) return; - if (debugger_bpt(regs)) - return; if (!(regs->msr & MSR_PR) && /* not user-mode */ report_bug(regs->nip, regs) == BUG_TRAP_TYPE_WARN) {