linux-kernel - [PATCH] kgdbts: Switch to do_sys_openat2() for breakpoint testing

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Date:   Thu, 25 Mar 2021 09:48:07 +0000
From:   Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@...aro.org>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Douglas Anderson <dianders@...omium.org>,
        Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@...driver.com>,
        kgdb-bugreport@...ts.sourceforge.net
Cc:     Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@...aro.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] kgdbts: Switch to do_sys_openat2() for breakpoint testing

Currently kgdbts can get stuck waiting for do_sys_open() to be called
in some of the current tests. This is because C compilers often
automatically inline this function, which is a very thin wrapper around
do_sys_openat2(), into some of its callers. gcc-10 does this on (at least)
both x86 and arm64.

We can fix the test suite by placing the breakpoints on do_sys_openat2()
instead since that isn't (currently) inlined. However do_sys_openat2() is
a static function so we cannot simply use an addressof. Since we are
testing debug machinery it is acceptable to use kallsyms to lookup a
suitable address because this is more or less what kdb does in the same
circumstances. Re-implement lookup_addr() to be based on kallsyms rather
than function pointers.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@...aro.org>
---

Notes:
    So less than a week ago I said I had nothing pending for kgdbts.
    That was entirely true when I said it... but then this came up.

 drivers/misc/kgdbts.c | 48 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/misc/kgdbts.c b/drivers/misc/kgdbts.c
index 945701bce5536..2679374ca8361 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/kgdbts.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/kgdbts.c
@@ -92,6 +92,7 @@
 #include <linux/kthread.h>
 #include <linux/module.h>
 #include <linux/sched/task.h>
+#include <linux/kallsyms.h>

 #include <asm/sections.h>

@@ -200,21 +201,30 @@ static noinline void kgdbts_break_test(void)
 	v2printk("kgdbts: breakpoint complete\n");
 }

-/* Lookup symbol info in the kernel */
+/*
+ * This is a cached wrapper for kallsyms_lookup_name().
+ *
+ * The cache is a big win for several tests. For example it more the doubles
+ * the cycles per second during the sys_open test. This is not theoretic,
+ * the performance improvement shows up at human scale, especially when
+ * testing using emulators.
+ *
+ * Obviously neither re-entrant nor thread-safe but that is OK since it
+ * can only be called from the debug trap (and therefore all other CPUs
+ * are halted).
+ */
 static unsigned long lookup_addr(char *arg)
 {
-	unsigned long addr = 0;
-
-	if (!strcmp(arg, "kgdbts_break_test"))
-		addr = (unsigned long)kgdbts_break_test;
-	else if (!strcmp(arg, "sys_open"))
-		addr = (unsigned long)do_sys_open;
-	else if (!strcmp(arg, "kernel_clone"))
-		addr = (unsigned long)kernel_clone;
-	else if (!strcmp(arg, "hw_break_val"))
-		addr = (unsigned long)&hw_break_val;
-	addr = (unsigned long) dereference_function_descriptor((void *)addr);
-	return addr;
+	static char cached_arg[KSYM_NAME_LEN];
+	static unsigned long cached_addr;
+
+	if (strcmp(arg, cached_arg)) {
+		strscpy(cached_arg, arg, KSYM_NAME_LEN);
+		cached_addr = kallsyms_lookup_name(arg);
+	}
+
+	return (unsigned long)dereference_function_descriptor(
+			(void *)cached_addr);
 }

 static void break_helper(char *bp_type, char *arg, unsigned long vaddr)
@@ -310,7 +320,7 @@ static int check_and_rewind_pc(char *put_str, char *arg)

 	if (arch_needs_sstep_emulation && sstep_addr &&
 	    ip + offset == sstep_addr &&
-	    ((!strcmp(arg, "sys_open") || !strcmp(arg, "kernel_clone")))) {
+	    ((!strcmp(arg, "do_sys_openat2") || !strcmp(arg, "kernel_clone")))) {
 		/* This is special case for emulated single step */
 		v2printk("Emul: rewind hit single step bp\n");
 		restart_from_top_after_write = 1;
@@ -619,14 +629,14 @@ static struct test_struct do_kernel_clone_test[] = {
  */
 static struct test_struct sys_open_test[] = {
 	{ "?", "S0*" }, /* Clear break points */
-	{ "sys_open", "OK", sw_break, }, /* set sw breakpoint */
+	{ "do_sys_openat2", "OK", sw_break, }, /* set sw breakpoint */
 	{ "c", "T0*", NULL, get_thread_id_continue }, /* Continue */
-	{ "sys_open", "OK", sw_rem_break }, /*remove breakpoint */
-	{ "g", "sys_open", NULL, check_and_rewind_pc }, /* check location */
+	{ "do_sys_openat2", "OK", sw_rem_break }, /*remove breakpoint */
+	{ "g", "do_sys_openat2", NULL, check_and_rewind_pc }, /* check location */
 	{ "write", "OK", write_regs, emul_reset }, /* Write registers */
 	{ "s", "T0*", emul_sstep_get, emul_sstep_put }, /* Single step */
-	{ "g", "sys_open", NULL, check_single_step },
-	{ "sys_open", "OK", sw_break, }, /* set sw breakpoint */
+	{ "g", "do_sys_openat2", NULL, check_single_step },
+	{ "do_sys_openat2", "OK", sw_break, }, /* set sw breakpoint */
 	{ "7", "T0*", skip_back_repeat_test }, /* Loop based on repeat_test */
 	{ "D", "OK", NULL, final_ack_set }, /* detach and unregister I/O */
 	{ "", "", get_cont_catch, put_cont_catch },

base-commit: 1e28eed17697bcf343c6743f0028cc3b5dd88bf0
--
2.29.2