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Author SHA1 Message Date
Andrei Warkentin
8f30d41176 KDB: Fix usability issues relating to the 'enter' key.
This fixes the following problems:
1) Typematic-repeat of 'enter' gives warning message
   and leaks make/break if KDB exits. Repeats
   look something like 0x1c 0x1c .... 0x9c
2) Use of 'keypad enter' gives warning message and
   leaks the ENTER break/make code out if KDB exits.
   KP ENTER repeats look someting like 0xe0 0x1c
   0xe0 0x1c ... 0xe0 0x9c.
3) Lag on the order of seconds between "break" and "make" when
   expecting the enter "break" code. Seen under virtualized
   environments such as VMware ESX.

The existing special enter handler tries to glob the enter break code,
but this fails if the other (KP) enter was used, or if there was a key
repeat. It also fails if you mashed some keys along with enter, and
you ended up with a non-enter make or non-enter break code coming
after the enter make code. So first, we modify the handler to handle
these cases. But performing these actions on every enter is annoying
since now you can't hold ENTER down to scroll <more>d messages in
KDB. Since this special behaviour is only necessary to handle the
exiting KDB ('g' + ENTER) without leaking scancodes to the OS.  This
cleanup needs to get executed anytime the kdb_main loop exits.

Tested on QEMU. Set a bp on atkbd.c to verify no scan code was leaked.

Cc: Andrei Warkentin <andreiw@vmware.com>
[jason.wessel@windriver.com: move cleanup calls to kdb_main.c]
Signed-off-by: Andrei Warkentin <andrey.warkentin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
2012-03-22 15:07:15 -05:00
Jason Wessel
d613d828e8 kdb: Remove all references to DOING_KGDB2
The DOING_KGDB2 was originally a state variable for one of the two
ways to automatically transition from kdb to kgdb.  Purge all these
variables and just use one single state for the transition.

Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
2011-08-01 13:23:59 -05:00
Jason Wessel
f679c4985b kdb,kgdb: Implement switch and pass buffer from kdb -> gdb
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>
2011-08-01 13:23:59 -05:00
Jason Wessel
91b152aa85 kdb,kgdb: fix sparse fixups
Fix the following sparse warnings:

kdb_main.c:328:5: warning: symbol 'kdbgetu64arg' was not declared. Should it be static?
kgdboc.c:246:12: warning: symbol 'kgdboc_early_init' was not declared. Should it be static?
kgdb.c:652:26: warning: incorrect type in argument 1 (different address spaces)
kgdb.c:652:26:    expected void const *ptr
kgdb.c:652:26:    got struct perf_event *[noderef] <asn:3>*pev

The one in kgdb.c required the (void * __force) because of the return
code from register_wide_hw_breakpoint looking like:

        return (void __percpu __force *)ERR_PTR(err);

Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
2010-10-22 15:34:12 -05:00
Jason Wessel
f7030bbc44 kdb: Allow kernel loadable modules to add kdb shell functions
In order to allow kernel modules to dynamically add a command to the
kdb shell the kdb_register, kdb_register_repeat, kdb_unregister, and
kdb_printf need to be exported as GPL symbols.

Any kernel module that adds a dynamic kdb shell function should only
need to include linux/kdb.h.

Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
2010-10-22 15:34:11 -05:00
Jason Wessel
b590cddfa6 kdb: fix compile error without CONFIG_KALLSYMS
If CONFIG_KGDB_KDB is set and CONFIG_KALLSYMS is not set the kernel
will fail to build with the error:

kernel/built-in.o: In function `kallsyms_symbol_next':
kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_support.c:237: undefined reference to `kdb_walk_kallsyms'
kernel/built-in.o: In function `kallsyms_symbol_complete':
kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_support.c:193: undefined reference to `kdb_walk_kallsyms'

The kdb_walk_kallsyms needs a #ifdef proper header to match the C
implementation.  This patch also fixes the compiler warnings in
kdb_support.c when compiling without CONFIG_KALLSYMS set.  The
compiler warnings are a result of the kallsyms_lookup() macro not
initializing the two of the pass by reference variables.

Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Reported-by: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
2010-08-16 15:58:29 -05:00
Jason Wessel
81d4450732 vt,console,kdb: automatically set kdb LINES variable
The kernel console interface stores the number of lines it is
configured to use. The kdb debugger can greatly benefit by knowing how
many lines there are on the console for the pager functionality
without having the end user compile in the setting or have to
repeatedly change it at run time.

Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
CC: David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
CC: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2010-08-05 09:22:30 -05:00
Jason Wessel
a0de055cf6 kgdb: gdb "monitor" -> kdb passthrough
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>
2010-05-20 21:04:24 -05:00
Jason Wessel
5d5314d679 kdb: core for kgdb back end (1 of 2)
This patch contains only the kdb core.  Because the change set was
large, it was split.  The next patch in the series includes the
instrumentation into the core kernel which are mainly helper functions
for kdb.

This work is directly derived from kdb v4.4 found at:

ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/kdb/download/v4.4/

The kdb internals have been re-organized to make them mostly platform
independent and to connect everything to the debug core which is used by
gdbstub (which has long been known as kgdb).

The original version of kdb was 58,000 lines worth of changes to
support x86.  From that implementation only the kdb shell, and basic
commands for memory access, runcontrol, lsmod, and dmesg where carried
forward.

This is a generic implementation which aims to cover all the current
architectures using the kgdb core: ppc, arm, x86, mips, sparc, sh and
blackfin.  More archictectures can be added by implementing the
architecture specific kgdb functions.

[mort@sgi.com: Compile fix with hugepages enabled]
[mort@sgi.com: Clean breakpoint code renaming kdba_ -> kdb_]
[mort@sgi.com: fix new line after printing registers]
[mort@sgi.com: Remove the concept of global vs. local breakpoints]
[mort@sgi.com: Rework kdb_si_swapinfo to use more generic name]
[mort@sgi.com: fix the information dump macros, remove 'arch' from the names]
[sfr@canb.auug.org.au: include fixup to include linux/slab.h]

CC: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Hicks <mort@sgi.com>
2010-05-20 21:04:20 -05:00