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Commit 75ecfab9 authored by Hui Li's avatar Hui Li Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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LoongArch: Trigger user-space watchpoints correctly

commit c8e57ab0

 upstream.

In the current code, gdb can set the watchpoint successfully through
ptrace interface, but watchpoint will not be triggered.

When debugging the following code using gdb.

lihui@bogon:~$ cat test.c
  #include <stdio.h>
  int a = 0;
  int main()
  {
	a = 1;
	printf("a = %d\n", a);
	return 0;
  }
lihui@bogon:~$ gcc -g test.c -o test
lihui@bogon:~$ gdb test
...
(gdb) watch a
...
(gdb) r
...
a = 1
[Inferior 1 (process 4650) exited normally]

No watchpoints were triggered, the root causes are:

1. Kernel uses perf_event and hw_breakpoint framework to control
   watchpoint, but the perf_event corresponding to watchpoint is
   not enabled. So it needs to be enabled according to MWPnCFG3
   or FWPnCFG3 PLV bit field in ptrace_hbp_set_ctrl(), and privilege
   is set according to the monitored addr in hw_breakpoint_control().
   Furthermore, add a judgment in ptrace_hbp_set_addr() to ensure
   kernel-space addr cannot be monitored in user mode.

2. The global enable control for all watchpoints is the WE bit of
   CSR.CRMD, and hardware sets the value to 0 when an exception is
   triggered. When the ERTN instruction is executed to return, the
   hardware restores the value of the PWE field of CSR.PRMD here.
   So, before a thread containing watchpoints be scheduled, the PWE
   field of CSR.PRMD needs to be set to 1. Add this modification in
   hw_breakpoint_control().

All changes according to the LoongArch Reference Manual:
https://loongson.github.io/LoongArch-Documentation/LoongArch-Vol1-EN.html#control-and-status-registers-related-to-watchpoints
https://loongson.github.io/LoongArch-Documentation/LoongArch-Vol1-EN.html#basic-control-and-status-registers

With this patch:

lihui@bogon:~$ gdb test
...
(gdb) watch a
Hardware watchpoint 1: a
(gdb) r
...
Hardware watchpoint 1: a

Old value = 0
New value = 1
main () at test.c:6
6		printf("a = %d\n", a);
(gdb) c
Continuing.
a = 1
[Inferior 1 (process 775) exited normally]

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: default avatarHui Li <lihui@loongson.cn>
Signed-off-by: default avatarHuacai Chen <chenhuacai@loongson.cn>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent 4b26f9ac
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