linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v11 6/6] arm64: kgdb: Implement kgdb_roundup

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Message-ID: <20230825112053.GE270740@aspen.lan>
Date:   Fri, 25 Aug 2023 12:20:53 +0100
From:   Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@...aro.org>
To:     Douglas Anderson <dianders@...omium.org>
Cc:     Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
        Sumit Garg <sumit.garg@...aro.org>,
        Marc Zyngier <maz@...nel.org>,
        "Rafael J . Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com>,
        Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@...nel.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        kgdb-bugreport@...ts.sourceforge.net,
        Lecopzer Chen <lecopzer.chen@...iatek.com>,
        linux-perf-users@...r.kernel.org,
        Masayoshi Mizuma <msys.mizuma@...il.com>,
        Chen-Yu Tsai <wens@...e.org>,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, ito-yuichi@...itsu.com,
        Stephen Boyd <swboyd@...omium.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        D Scott Phillips <scott@...amperecomputing.com>,
        Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...nel.org>,
        Valentin Schneider <vschneid@...hat.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v11 6/6] arm64: kgdb: Implement kgdb_roundup_cpus() to
 enable pseudo-NMI roundup

On Thu, Aug 24, 2023 at 08:30:32AM -0700, Douglas Anderson wrote:
> Up until now we've been using the generic (weak) implementation for
> kgdb_roundup_cpus() when using kgdb on arm64. Let's move to a custom
> one. The advantage here is that, when pseudo-NMI is enabled on a
> device, we'll be able to round up CPUs using pseudo-NMI. This allows
> us to debug CPUs that are stuck with interrupts disabled. If
> pseudo-NMIs are not enabled then we'll fallback to just using an IPI,
> which is still slightly better than the generic implementation since
> it avoids the potential situation described in the generic
> kgdb_call_nmi_hook().
>
> Co-developed-by: Sumit Garg <sumit.garg@...aro.org>
> Signed-off-by: Sumit Garg <sumit.garg@...aro.org>
> Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@...omium.org>

>From a kgdb point of view:
Reviewed-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@...aro.org>


Daniel.