[PATCH 3.17-rc4 v5 0/6] arm: Implement arch_trigger_all_cpu_backtrace

From: Daniel Thompson
Date: Thu Sep 11 2014 - 07:31:36 EST


This patchset implements arch_trigger_all_cpu_backtrace for arm.

Non-maskable signalling relies on the kernel being able to access FIQ
and therefore, for devices that implement TrustZone, it will work only on
systems that boot the kernel in secure mode.

Tested on Freescale iMX.6 (both via SysRq-l and by deliberately locking
up the kernel with CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK=y).

Changes since v4:

* Rebased on 3.17-rc4.

* Removed a spurious line from the final "glue it together" patch
that broke the build.

Changes since v3:

* Replaced push/pop with stmfd/ldmfd respectively (review of Nicolas
Pitre).

* Really fix bad pt_regs pointer generation in __fiq_abt.

* Remove fiq_safe_migration_lock and associated logic in
gic_raise_softirq() (review of Russell King)

* Restructured to introduce the default FIQ handler first, before the
new features (review of Russell King).

Changes since v2:

* Removed redundant header guards from arch/arm64/include/asm/fiq.h
(review of Catalin Marinas).

* Moved svc_exit_via_fiq macro to entry-header.S (review of Nicolas
Pitre).

Changes since v1:

* Restructured to sit nicely on a similar FYI patchset from Russell
King. It now effectively replaces the work in progress final patch
with something much more complete.

* Implemented (and tested) a Thumb-2 implementation of svc_exit_via_fiq
(review of Nicolas Pitre)

* Dropped the GIC group 0 workaround patch. The issue of FIQ interrupts
being acknowledged by the IRQ handler does still exist but should be
harmless because the IRQ handler will still wind up calling
ipi_cpu_backtrace().

* Removed any dependency on CONFIG_FIQ; all cpu backtrace effectively
becomes a platform feature (although the use of non-maskable
interrupts to implement it is best effort rather than guaranteed).

* Better comments highlighting usage of RAZ/WI registers (and parts of
registers) in the GIC code.

Changes *before* v1:

* This patchset is a hugely cut-down successor to "[PATCH v11 00/19]
arm: KGDB NMI/FIQ support". Thanks to Thomas Gleixner for suggesting
the new structure. For historic details see:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/9/2/227

* Fix bug in __fiq_abt (no longer passes a bad struct pt_regs value).
In fixing this we also remove the useless indirection previously
found in the fiq_handler macro.

* Make default fiq handler "always on" by migrating from fiq.c to
traps.c and replace do_unexp_fiq with the new handler (review
of Russell King).

* Add arm64 version of fiq.h (review of Russell King)

* Removed conditional branching and code from irq-gic.c, this is
replaced by much simpler code that relies on the GIC specification's
heavy use of read-as-zero/write-ignored (review of Russell King)


Daniel Thompson (5):
arm: fiq: Replace default FIQ handler
arm64: Introduce dummy version of asm/fiq.h
irqchip: gic: Add support for IPI FIQ
ARM: add basic support for on-demand backtrace of other CPUs
arm: smp: Handle ipi_cpu_backtrace() using FIQ (if available)

Russell King (1):
ARM: remove unused do_unexp_fiq() function

arch/arm/include/asm/irq.h | 5 ++
arch/arm/include/asm/smp.h | 3 +
arch/arm/kernel/entry-armv.S | 95 ++++++++++++++++++++++++---
arch/arm/kernel/entry-header.S | 47 ++++++++++++++
arch/arm/kernel/setup.c | 8 ++-
arch/arm/kernel/smp.c | 64 ++++++++++++++++++
arch/arm/kernel/traps.c | 32 ++++++++-
arch/arm64/include/asm/fiq.h | 8 +++
drivers/irqchip/irq-gic.c | 140 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
include/linux/irqchip/arm-gic.h | 3 +
10 files changed, 386 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 arch/arm64/include/asm/fiq.h

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