ARM: hw_breakpoint: disable preemption during debug exception handling

On ARM, debug exceptions occur in the form of data or prefetch aborts.
One difference is that debug exceptions require access to per-cpu banked
registers and data structures which are not saved in the low-level exception
code. For kernels built with CONFIG_PREEMPT, there is an unlikely scenario
that the debug handler ends up running on a different CPU from the one
that originally signalled the event, resulting in random data being read
from the wrong registers.

This patch adds a debug_entry macro to the low-level exception handling
code which checks whether the taken exception is a debug exception. If
it is, the preempt count for the faulting process is incremented. After
the debug handler has finished, the count is decremented.

Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
This commit is contained in:
Will Deacon
2010-11-28 14:57:24 +00:00
parent 6ee33c2712
commit 7e20269647
3 changed files with 36 additions and 5 deletions
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@@ -165,6 +165,25 @@
.endm
#endif /* !CONFIG_THUMB2_KERNEL */
@
@ Debug exceptions are taken as prefetch or data aborts.
@ We must disable preemption during the handler so that
@ we can access the debug registers safely.
@
.macro debug_entry, fsr
#if defined(CONFIG_HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT) && defined(CONFIG_PREEMPT)
ldr r4, =0x40f @ mask out fsr.fs
and r5, r4, \fsr
cmp r5, #2 @ debug exception
bne 1f
get_thread_info r10
ldr r6, [r10, #TI_PREEMPT] @ get preempt count
add r11, r6, #1 @ increment it
str r11, [r10, #TI_PREEMPT]
1:
#endif
.endm
/*
* These are the registers used in the syscall handler, and allow us to
* have in theory up to 7 arguments to a function - r0 to r6.