linux/arch
Will Deacon 2ce39ad151 arm64: debug: unmask PSTATE.D earlier
Clearing PSTATE.D is one of the requirements for generating a debug
exception. The arm64 booting protocol requires that PSTATE.D is set,
since many of the debug registers (for example, the hw_breakpoint
registers) are UNKNOWN out of reset and could potentially generate
spurious, fatal debug exceptions in early boot code if PSTATE.D was
clear. Once the debug registers have been safely initialised, PSTATE.D
is cleared, however this is currently broken for two reasons:

(1) The boot CPU clears PSTATE.D in a postcore_initcall and secondary
    CPUs clear PSTATE.D in secondary_start_kernel. Since the initcall
    runs after SMP (and the scheduler) have been initialised, there is
    no guarantee that it is actually running on the boot CPU. In this
    case, the boot CPU is left with PSTATE.D set and is not capable of
    generating debug exceptions.

(2) In a preemptible kernel, we may explicitly schedule on the IRQ
    return path to EL1. If an IRQ occurs with PSTATE.D set in the idle
    thread, then we may schedule the kthread_init thread, run the
    postcore_initcall to clear PSTATE.D and then context switch back
    to the idle thread before returning from the IRQ. The exception
    return path will then restore PSTATE.D from the stack, and set it
    again.

This patch fixes the problem by moving the clearing of PSTATE.D earlier
to proc.S. This has the desirable effect of clearing it in one place for
all CPUs, long before we have to worry about the scheduler or any
exception handling. We ensure that the previous reset of MDSCR_EL1 has
completed before unmasking the exception, so that any spurious
exceptions resulting from UNKNOWN debug registers are not generated.

Without this patch applied, the kprobes selftests have been seen to fail
under KVM, where we end up attempting to step the OOL instruction buffer
with PSTATE.D set and therefore fail to complete the step.

Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Reported-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Tested-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Tested-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
2016-07-19 16:56:46 +01:00
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alpha lib/GCD.c: use binary GCD algorithm instead of Euclidean 2016-05-20 17:58:30 -07:00
arc Revert "ARCv2: spinlock/rwlock/atomics: Delayed retry of failed SCOND with exponential backoff" 2016-06-02 10:59:23 +05:30
arm ARM: SoC fixes 2016-06-18 20:36:17 -10:00
arm64 arm64: debug: unmask PSTATE.D earlier 2016-07-19 16:56:46 +01:00
avr32 printk/nmi: generic solution for safe printk in NMI 2016-05-20 17:58:30 -07:00
blackfin printk/nmi: generic solution for safe printk in NMI 2016-05-20 17:58:30 -07:00
c6x asm-generic patch for 4.7 2016-05-24 15:24:37 -07:00
cris MTD updates for v4.7: 2016-05-24 11:00:20 -07:00
frv exit_thread: remove empty bodies 2016-05-20 17:58:30 -07:00
h8300 Merge branch 'hash' of git://ftp.sciencehorizons.net/linux 2016-05-28 16:15:25 -07:00
hexagon asm-generic patch for 4.7 2016-05-24 15:24:37 -07:00
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mips MIPS: KVM: Fix CACHE triggered exception emulation 2016-06-14 10:59:45 +02:00
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openrisc asm-generic patch for 4.7 2016-05-24 15:24:37 -07:00
parisc parisc: Move die_if_kernel() prototype into traps.h header 2016-06-05 08:49:01 +02:00
powerpc powerpc fixes for 4.7 #2 2016-06-10 12:23:49 -07:00
s390 KVM: s390: Add stats for PEI events 2016-06-10 10:24:24 +02:00
score asm-generic patch for 4.7 2016-05-24 15:24:37 -07:00
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x86 Driver core fixes for 4.7-rc4 2016-06-18 06:04:01 -10:00
xtensa Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2016-05-25 17:05:40 -07:00
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Kconfig isa: Allow ISA-style drivers on modern systems 2016-06-17 20:21:12 -07:00