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* debug: prevent entering debug mode on panic/exception.Colin Cross2015-02-19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | On non-developer devices, kgdb prevents the device from rebooting after a panic. Incase of panics and exceptions, to allow the device to reboot, prevent entering debug mode to avoid getting stuck waiting for the user to interact with debugger. To avoid entering the debugger on panic/exception without any extra configuration, panic_timeout is being used which can be set via /proc/sys/kernel/panic at run time and CONFIG_PANIC_TIMEOUT sets the default value. Setting panic_timeout indicates that the user requested machine to perform unattended reboot after panic. We dont want to get stuck waiting for the user input incase of panic. Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: kgdb-bugreport@lists.sourceforge.net Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Android Kernel Team <kernel-team@android.com> Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Cc: Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Colin Cross <ccross@android.com> [Kiran: Added context to commit message. panic_timeout is used instead of break_on_panic and break_on_exception to honor CONFIG_PANIC_TIMEOUT Modified the commit as per community feedback] Signed-off-by: Kiran Raparthy <kiran.kumar@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
* kdb: Const qualifier for kdb_getstr's prompt argumentDaniel Thompson2015-02-19
| | | | | | | | | All current callers of kdb_getstr() can pass constant pointers via the prompt argument. This patch adds a const qualification to make explicit the fact that this is safe. Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
* kdb: Provide forward search at more promptDaniel Thompson2015-02-19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently kdb allows the output of comamnds to be filtered using the | grep feature. This is useful but does not permit the output emitted shortly after a string match to be examined without wading through the entire unfiltered output of the command. Such a feature is particularly useful to navigate function traces because these traces often have a useful trigger string *before* the point of interest. This patch reuses the existing filtering logic to introduce a simple forward search to kdb that can be triggered from the more prompt. Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
* kdb: Fix a prompt management bug when using | grepDaniel Thompson2015-02-19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently when the "| grep" feature is used to filter the output of a command then the prompt is not displayed for the subsequent command. Likewise any characters typed by the user are also not echoed to the display. This rather disconcerting problem eventually corrects itself when the user presses Enter and the kdb_grepping_flag is cleared as kdb_parse() tries to make sense of whatever they typed. This patch resolves the problem by moving the clearing of this flag from the middle of command processing to the beginning. Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
* kdb: Remove stack dump when entering kgdb due to NMIDaniel Thompson2015-02-19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Issuing a stack dump feels ergonomically wrong when entering due to NMI. Entering due to NMI is normally a reaction to a user request, either the NMI button on a server or a "magic knock" on a UART. Therefore the backtrace behaviour on entry due to NMI should be like SysRq-g (no stack dump) rather than like oops. Note also that the stack dump does not offer any information that cannot be trivial retrieved using the 'bt' command. Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
* kdb: Avoid printing KERN_ levels to consolesDaniel Thompson2015-02-19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently when kdb traps printk messages then the raw log level prefix (consisting of '\001' followed by a numeral) does not get stripped off before the message is issued to the various I/O handlers supported by kdb. This causes annoying visual noise as well as causing problems grepping for ^. It is also a change of behaviour compared to normal usage of printk() usage. For example <SysRq>-h ends up with different output to that of kdb's "sr h". This patch addresses the problem by stripping log levels from messages before they are issued to the I/O handlers. printk() which can also act as an i/o handler in some cases is special cased; if the caller provided a log level then the prefix will be preserved when sent to printk(). The addition of non-printable characters to the output of kdb commands is a regression, albeit and extremely elderly one, introduced by commit 04d2c8c83d0e ("printk: convert the format for KERN_<LEVEL> to a 2 byte pattern"). Note also that this patch does *not* restore the original behaviour from v3.5. Instead it makes printk() from within a kdb command display the message without any prefix (i.e. like printk() normally does). Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org> Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
* kdb: Fix off by one error in kdb_cpu()Jason Wessel2015-02-19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | There was a follow on replacement patch against the prior "kgdb: Timeout if secondary CPUs ignore the roundup". See: https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/1/7/442 This patch is the delta vs the patch that was committed upstream: * Fix an off-by-one error in kdb_cpu(). * Replace NR_CPUS with CONFIG_NR_CPUS to tell checkpatch that we really want a static limit. * Removed the "KGDB: " prefix from the pr_crit() in debug_core.c (kgdb-next contains a patch which introduced pr_fmt() to this file to the tag will now be applied automatically). Cc: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
* kdb: fix incorrect counts in KDB summary command outputJay Lan2015-02-19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The output of KDB 'summary' command should report MemTotal, MemFree and Buffers output in kB. Current codes report in unit of pages. A define of K(x) as is defined in the code, but not used. This patch would apply the define to convert the values to kB. Please include me on Cc on replies. I do not subscribe to linux-kernel. Signed-off-by: Jay Lan <jlan@sgi.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
* Merge tag 'fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2015-01-22
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux Pull module and param fixes from Rusty Russell: "Surprising number of fixes this merge window :( The first two are minor fallout from the param rework which went in this merge window. The next three are a series which fixes a longstanding (but never previously reported and unlikely , so no CC stable) race between kallsyms and freeing the init section. Finally, a minor cleanup as our module refcount will now be -1 during unload" * tag 'fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux: module: make module_refcount() a signed integer. module: fix race in kallsyms resolution during module load success. module: remove mod arg from module_free, rename module_memfree(). module_arch_freeing_init(): new hook for archs before module->module_init freed. param: fix uninitialized read with CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC param: initialize store function to NULL if not available.
| * module: make module_refcount() a signed integer.Rusty Russell2015-01-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | James Bottomley points out that it will be -1 during unload. It's only used for diagnostics, so let's not hide that as it could be a clue as to what's gone wrong. Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com> Acked-and-documention-added-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu <maasami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
* | kernel/debug/debug_core.c: Logging clean-upFabian Frederick2014-11-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | -Convert printk( to pr_foo() -Add pr_fmt -Coalesce formats Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be> Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
* | kgdb: timeout if secondary CPUs ignore the roundupDaniel Thompson2014-11-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently if an active CPU fails to respond to a roundup request the CPU that requested the roundup will become stuck. This needlessly reduces the robustness of the debugger. This patch introduces a timeout allowing the system state to be examined even when the system contains unresponsive processors. It also modifies kdb's cpu command to make it censor attempts to switch to unresponsive processors and to report their state as (D)ead. Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org> Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
* | kdb: Allow access to sensitive commands to be restricted by defaultDaniel Thompson2014-11-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently kiosk mode must be explicitly requested by the bootloader or userspace. It is convenient to be able to change the default value in a similar manner to CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ_DEFAULT_MASK. Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org> Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
* | kdb: Add enable mask for groups of commandsAnton Vorontsov2014-11-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently all kdb commands are enabled whenever kdb is deployed. This makes it difficult to deploy kdb to help debug certain types of systems. Android phones provide one example; the FIQ debugger found on some Android devices has a deliberately weak set of commands to allow the debugger to enabled very late in the production cycle. Certain kiosk environments offer another interesting case where an engineer might wish to probe the system state using passive inspection commands without providing sufficient power for a passer by to root it. Without any restrictions, obtaining the root rights via KDB is a matter of a few commands, and works everywhere. For example, log in as a normal user: cbou:~$ id uid=1001(cbou) gid=1001(cbou) groups=1001(cbou) Now enter KDB (for example via sysrq): Entering kdb (current=0xffff8800065bc740, pid 920) due to Keyboard Entry kdb> ps 23 sleeping system daemon (state M) processes suppressed, use 'ps A' to see all. Task Addr Pid Parent [*] cpu State Thread Command 0xffff8800065bc740 920 919 1 0 R 0xffff8800065bca20 *bash 0xffff880007078000 1 0 0 0 S 0xffff8800070782e0 init [...snip...] 0xffff8800065be3c0 918 1 0 0 S 0xffff8800065be6a0 getty 0xffff8800065b9c80 919 1 0 0 S 0xffff8800065b9f60 login 0xffff8800065bc740 920 919 1 0 R 0xffff8800065bca20 *bash All we need is the offset of cred pointers. We can look up the offset in the distro's kernel source, but it is unnecessary. We can just start dumping init's task_struct, until we see the process name: kdb> md 0xffff880007078000 0xffff880007078000 0000000000000001 ffff88000703c000 ................ 0xffff880007078010 0040210000000002 0000000000000000 .....!@......... [...snip...] 0xffff8800070782b0 ffff8800073e0580 ffff8800073e0580 ..>.......>..... 0xffff8800070782c0 0000000074696e69 0000000000000000 init............ ^ Here, 'init'. Creds are just above it, so the offset is 0x02b0. Now we set up init's creds for our non-privileged shell: kdb> mm 0xffff8800065bc740+0x02b0 0xffff8800073e0580 0xffff8800065bc9f0 = 0xffff8800073e0580 kdb> mm 0xffff8800065bc740+0x02b8 0xffff8800073e0580 0xffff8800065bc9f8 = 0xffff8800073e0580 And thus gaining the root: kdb> go cbou:~$ id uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root) cbou:~$ bash root:~# p.s. No distro enables kdb by default (although, with a nice KDB-over-KMS feature availability, I would expect at least some would enable it), so it's not actually some kind of a major issue. Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org> Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
* | kdb: Categorize kdb commands (similar to SysRq categorization)Daniel Thompson2014-11-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch introduces several new flags to collect kdb commands into groups (later allowing them to be optionally disabled). This follows similar prior art to enable/disable magic sysrq commands. The commands have been categorized as follows: Always on: go (w/o args), env, set, help, ?, cpu (w/o args), sr, dmesg, disable_nmi, defcmd, summary, grephelp Mem read: md, mdr, mdp, mds, ef, bt (with args), per_cpu Mem write: mm Reg read: rd Reg write: go (with args), rm Inspect: bt (w/o args), btp, bta, btc, btt, ps, pid, lsmod Flow ctrl: bp, bl, bph, bc, be, bd, ss Signal: kill Reboot: reboot All: cpu, kgdb, (and all of the above), nmi_console Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org> Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
* | kdb: Remove KDB_REPEAT_NONE flagAnton Vorontsov2014-11-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Since we now treat KDB_REPEAT_* as flags, there is no need to pass KDB_REPEAT_NONE. It's just the default behaviour when no flags are specified. Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org> Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
* | kdb: Use KDB_REPEAT_* values as flagsAnton Vorontsov2014-11-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The actual values of KDB_REPEAT_* enum values and overall logic stayed the same, but we now treat the values as flags. This makes it possible to add other flags and combine them, plus makes the code a lot simpler and shorter. But functionality-wise, there should be no changes. Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org> Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
* | kdb: Rename kdb_register_repeat() to kdb_register_flags()Anton Vorontsov2014-11-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We're about to add more options for commands behaviour, so let's give a more generic name to the low-level kdb command registration function. There are just various renames, no functional changes. Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org> Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
* | kdb: Rename kdb_repeat_t to kdb_cmdflags_t, cmd_repeat to cmd_flagsAnton Vorontsov2014-11-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We're about to add more options for command behaviour, so let's expand the meaning of kdb_repeat_t. So far we just do various renames, there should be no functional changes. Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org> Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
* | kdb: Remove currently unused kdbtab_t->cmd_flagsAnton Vorontsov2014-11-11
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | The struct member is never used in the code, so we can remove it. We will introduce real flags soon by renaming cmd_repeat to cmd_flags. Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org> Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
* kdb: replace strnicmp with strncasecmpRasmus Villemoes2014-10-13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The kernel used to contain two functions for length-delimited, case-insensitive string comparison, strnicmp with correct semantics and a slightly buggy strncasecmp. The latter is the POSIX name, so strnicmp was renamed to strncasecmp, and strnicmp made into a wrapper for the new strncasecmp to avoid breaking existing users. To allow the compat wrapper strnicmp to be removed at some point in the future, and to avoid the extra indirection cost, do s/strnicmp/strncasecmp/g. Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk> Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* kdb: Use ktime_get_ts()Thomas Gleixner2014-06-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | do_posix_clock_monotonic_gettime() is a leftover from the initial posix timer implementation which maps to ktime_get_ts(). Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140611234607.261629142@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
* kernel/printk: use symbolic defines for console loglevelsBorislav Petkov2014-06-04
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | ... instead of naked numbers. Stuff in sysrq.c used to set it to 8 which is supposed to mean above default level so set it to DEBUG instead as we're terminating/killing all tasks and we want to be verbose there. Also, correct the check in x86_64_start_kernel which should be >= as we're clearly issuing the string there for all debug levels, not only the magical 10. Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Cc: Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* arch: Mass conversion of smp_mb__*()Peter Zijlstra2014-04-18
| | | | | | | | | | | Mostly scripted conversion of the smp_mb__* barriers. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-55dhyhocezdw1dg7u19hmh1u@git.kernel.org Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
* mm: per-thread vma cachingDavidlohr Bueso2014-04-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch is a continuation of efforts trying to optimize find_vma(), avoiding potentially expensive rbtree walks to locate a vma upon faults. The original approach (https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/11/1/410), where the largest vma was also cached, ended up being too specific and random, thus further comparison with other approaches were needed. There are two things to consider when dealing with this, the cache hit rate and the latency of find_vma(). Improving the hit-rate does not necessarily translate in finding the vma any faster, as the overhead of any fancy caching schemes can be too high to consider. We currently cache the last used vma for the whole address space, which provides a nice optimization, reducing the total cycles in find_vma() by up to 250%, for workloads with good locality. On the other hand, this simple scheme is pretty much useless for workloads with poor locality. Analyzing ebizzy runs shows that, no matter how many threads are running, the mmap_cache hit rate is less than 2%, and in many situations below 1%. The proposed approach is to replace this scheme with a small per-thread cache, maximizing hit rates at a very low maintenance cost. Invalidations are performed by simply bumping up a 32-bit sequence number. The only expensive operation is in the rare case of a seq number overflow, where all caches that share the same address space are flushed. Upon a miss, the proposed replacement policy is based on the page number that contains the virtual address in question. Concretely, the following results are seen on an 80 core, 8 socket x86-64 box: 1) System bootup: Most programs are single threaded, so the per-thread scheme does improve ~50% hit rate by just adding a few more slots to the cache. +----------------+----------+------------------+ | caching scheme | hit-rate | cycles (billion) | +----------------+----------+------------------+ | baseline | 50.61% | 19.90 | | patched | 73.45% | 13.58 | +----------------+----------+------------------+ 2) Kernel build: This one is already pretty good with the current approach as we're dealing with good locality. +----------------+----------+------------------+ | caching scheme | hit-rate | cycles (billion) | +----------------+----------+------------------+ | baseline | 75.28% | 11.03 | | patched | 88.09% | 9.31 | +----------------+----------+------------------+ 3) Oracle 11g Data Mining (4k pages): Simi