Subject: [Kgdb-bugreport] [PATCH] ARM: change definition of cpu_relax() for ARM11MPCore

From: [email-masked] (Will Deacon)
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:51:45 -0000

> Do you think you can try the patch below?

<snip>

> --- a/kernel/kgdb.c
> +++ b/kernel/kgdb.c
> @@ -580,14 +580,13 @@ static void kgdb_wait(struct pt_regs *re
>  	 * Make sure the above info reaches the primary CPU before
>  	 * our cpu_in_kgdb[] flag setting does:
>  	 */
> -	smp_wmb();
> -	atomic_set(&cpu_in_kgdb[cpu], 1);
> +	atomic_inc(&cpu_in_kgdb[cpu]);
> 
>  	/* Disable any cpu specific hw breakpoints */
>  	kgdb_disable_hw_debug(regs);
> 
>  	/* Wait till primary CPU is done with debugging */
> -	while (atomic_read(&passive_cpu_wait[cpu]))
> +	while (atomic_add_return(0, &passive_cpu_wait[cpu]))
>  		cpu_relax();
> 
>  	kgdb_info[cpu].debuggerinfo = NULL;
> @@ -598,7 +597,7 @@ static void kgdb_wait(struct pt_regs *re
>  		arch_kgdb_ops.correct_hw_break();
> 
>  	/* Signal the primary CPU that we are done: */
> -	atomic_set(&cpu_in_kgdb[cpu], 0);
> +	atomic_dec(&cpu_in_kgdb[cpu]);
>  	touch_softlockup_watchdog_sync();
>  	clocksource_touch_watchdog();
>  	local_irq_restore(flags);
> @@ -1493,7 +1492,7 @@ acquirelock:
>  	 * spin_lock code is good enough as a barrier so we don't
>  	 * need one here:
>  	 */
> -	atomic_set(&cpu_in_kgdb[ks->cpu], 1);
> +	atomic_inc(&cpu_in_kgdb[ks->cpu]);
> 
>  #ifdef CONFIG_SMP
>  	/* Signal the other CPUs to enter kgdb_wait() */
> @@ -1505,7 +1504,7 @@ acquirelock:
>  	 * Wait for the other CPUs to be notified and be waiting for us:
>  	 */
>  	for_each_online_cpu(i) {
> -		while (!atomic_read(&cpu_in_kgdb[i]))
> +		while (!atomic_add_return(0, &cpu_in_kgdb[i]))
>  			cpu_relax();
>  	}
> 
> @@ -1528,7 +1527,7 @@ acquirelock:
> 
>  	kgdb_info[ks->cpu].debuggerinfo = NULL;
>  	kgdb_info[ks->cpu].task = NULL;
> -	atomic_set(&cpu_in_kgdb[ks->cpu], 0);
> +	atomic_dec(&cpu_in_kgdb[ks->cpu]);
> 
>  	if (!kgdb_single_step) {
>  		for (i = NR_CPUS-1; i >= 0; i--)
> @@ -1538,7 +1537,7 @@ acquirelock:
>  		 * from the debugger.
>  		 */
>  		for_each_online_cpu(i) {
> -			while (atomic_read(&cpu_in_kgdb[i]))
> +			while (atomic_add_return(0, &cpu_in_kgdb[i]))
>  				cpu_relax();
>  		}
>  	}
> @@ -1742,11 +1741,11 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kgdb_unregister_io_mod
>   */
>  void kgdb_breakpoint(void)
>  {
> -	atomic_set(&kgdb_setting_breakpoint, 1);
> +	atomic_inc(&kgdb_setting_breakpoint);
>  	wmb(); /* Sync point before breakpoint */
>  	arch_kgdb_breakpoint();
>  	wmb(); /* Sync point after breakpoint */
> -	atomic_set(&kgdb_setting_breakpoint, 0);
> +	atomic_dec(&kgdb_setting_breakpoint);
>  }
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kgdb_breakpoint);

Appears to work, but it's hard to be 100% with these sorts of things.
I ran the basic testsuite, the fork tests and the breakpoint tests as mentioned
in drivers/misc/kgdbts.c. The patch might introduce more barriers than we really
need, but this isn't performance-critical code and without it, KGDB is broken, so:

Tested-by: Will Deacon <[email-masked]>

Cheers,

Will