When switching from kdb mode to kgdb mode packets were getting lost
depending on the size of the fifo queue of the serial chip. When gdb
initially connects if it is in kdb mode it should entirely send any
character buffer over to the gdbstub when switching connections.
Previously kdb was zero'ing out the character buffer and this could
lead to gdb failing to connect at all, or a lengthy pause could occur
on the initial connect.
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Notify GDB of the machine halting, rebooting or powering off by sending it an
exited command (remote protocol command 'W'). This is done by calling:
void gdbstub_exit(int status)
from the arch's machine_{halt,restart,power_off}() functions with an
appropriate exit status to be reported to GDB.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jwessel/linux-2.6-kgdb:
debug_core,kdb: fix crash when arch does not have single step
kgdb,x86: use macro HBP_NUM to replace magic number 4
kgdb,mips: remove unused kgdb_cpu_doing_single_step operations
mm,kdb,kgdb: Add a debug reference for the kdb kmap usage
KGDB: Remove set but unused newPC
ftrace,kdb: Allow dumping a specific cpu's buffer with ftdump
ftrace,kdb: Extend kdb to be able to dump the ftrace buffer
kgdb,powerpc: Replace hardcoded offset by BREAK_INSTR_SIZE
arm,kgdb: Add ability to trap into debugger on notify_die
gdbstub: do not directly use dbg_reg_def[] in gdb_cmd_reg_set()
gdbstub: Implement gdbserial 'p' and 'P' packets
kgdb,arm: Individual register get/set for arm
kgdb,mips: Individual register get/set for mips
kgdb,x86: Individual register get/set for x86
kgdb,kdb: individual register set and and get API
gdbstub: Optimize kgdb's "thread:" response for the gdb serial protocol
kgdb: remove custom hex_to_bin()implementation
Presently the usable registers definitions on x86 are not contiguous
for kgdb. The x86 kgdb uses a case statement for the sparse register
accesses. The array which defines the registers (dbg_reg_def) should
not be used directly in order to safely work with sparse register
definitions.
Specifically there was a problem when gdb accesses ORIG_AX, which is
accessed only through the case statement.
This patch encodes register memory using the size information provided
from the debugger which avoids the need to look up the size of the
register. The dbg_set_reg() function always further validates the
inputs from the debugger.
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Dongdong Deng <dongdong.deng@windriver.com>
The gdbserial 'p' and 'P' packets allow gdb to individually get and
set registers instead of querying for all the available registers.
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
The kdb shell specification includes the ability to get and set
architecture specific registers by name.
For the time being individual register get and set will be implemented
on a per architecture basis. If an architecture defines
DBG_MAX_REG_NUM > 0 then kdb and the gdbstub will use the capability
for individually getting and setting architecture specific registers.
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
The gdb debugger understands how to parse short versions of the thread
reference string as long as the bytes are paired in sets of two
characters. The kgdb implementation was always sending 8 leading
zeros which could be omitted, and further optimized in the case of
non-negative thread numbers. The negative numbers are used to
reference a specific cpu in the case of kgdb.
An example of the previous i386 stop packet looks like:
T05thread:00000000000003bb;
New stop packet response:
T05thread:03bb;
The previous ThreadInfo response looks like:
m00000000fffffffe,0000000000000001,0000000000000002,0000000000000003,0000000000000004,0000000000000005,0000000000000006,0000000000000007,000000000000000c,0000000000000088,000000000000008a,000000000000008b,000000000000008c,000000000000008d,000000000000008e,00000000000000d4,00000000000000d5,00000000000000dd
New ThreadInfo response:
mfffffffe,01,02,03,04,05,06,07,0c,88,8a,8b,8c,8d,8e,d4,d5,dd
A few bytes saved means better response time when using kgdb over a
serial line.
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
The gdbserial protocol handler should return an empty packet instead
of an error string when ever it responds to a command it does not
implement.
The problem cases come from a debugger client sending
qTBuffer, qTStatus, qSearch, qSupported.
The incorrect response from the gdbstub leads the debugger clients to
not function correctly. Recent versions of gdb will not detach correctly as a result of this behavior.
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Dongdong Deng <dongdong.deng@windriver.com>
pavel@suse.cz no longer works, replace it with working address.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
One of the driving forces behind integrating another front end (kdb)
to the debug core is to allow front end commands to be accessible via
gdb's monitor command. It is true that you could write gdb macros to
get certain data, but you may want to just use gdb to access the
commands that are available in the kdb front end.
This patch implements the Rcmd gdb stub packet. In gdb you access
this with the "monitor" command. For instance you could type "monitor
help", "monitor lsmod" or "monitor ps A" etc...
There is no error checking or command restrictions on what you can and
cannot access at this point. Doing something like trying to set
breakpoints with the monitor command is going to cause nothing but
problems. Perhaps in the future only the commands that are actually
known to work with the gdb monitor command will be available.
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
The design of the kdb shell requires that every device that can
provide input to kdb have a polling routine that exits immediately if
there is no character available. This is required in order to get the
page scrolling mechanism working.
Changing the kernel debugger I/O API to require all polling character
routines to exit immediately if there is no data allows the kernel
debugger to process multiple input channels.
NO_POLL_CHAR will be the return code to the polling routine when ever
there is no character available.
CC: linux-serial@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
These are the minimum changes to the kgdb core in order to enable an
API to connect a new front end (kdb) to the debug core.
This patch introduces the dbg_kdb_mode variable controls where the
user level I/O is routed. It will be routed to the gdbstub (kgdb) or
to the kdb front end which is a simple shell available over the kgdboc
connection.
You can switch back and forth between kdb or the gdb stub mode of
operation dynamically. From gdb stub mode you can blindly type
"$3#33", or from the kdb mode you can enter "kgdb" to switch to the
gdb stub.
The logic in the debug core depends on kdb to look for the typical gdb
connection sequences and return immediately with KGDB_PASS_EVENT if a
gdb serial command sequence is detected. That should allow a
reasonably seamless transition between kdb -> gdb without leaving the
kernel exception state. The two gdb serial queries that kdb is
responsible for detecting are the "?" and "qSupported" packets.
CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Acked-by: Martin Hicks <mort@sgi.com>
Split the former kernel/kgdb.c into debug_core.c which contains the
kernel debugger exception logic and to the gdbstub.c which contains
the logic for allowing gdb to talk to the debug core.
This also created a private include file called debug_core.h which
contains all the definitions to glue the debug_core to any other
debugger connections.
CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
