From b1a57bbfcc17c87e5cc76695ebb0565380c7501a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Douglas Anderson Date: Thu, 7 May 2020 13:08:42 -0700 Subject: kgdb: Delay "kgdbwait" to dbg_late_init() by default Using kgdb requires at least some level of architecture-level initialization. If nothing else, it relies on the architecture to pass breakpoints / crashes onto kgdb. On some architectures this all works super early, specifically it starts working at some point in time before Linux parses early_params's. On other architectures it doesn't. A survey of a few platforms: a) x86: Presumably it all works early since "ekgdboc" is documented to work here. b) arm64: Catching crashes works; with a simple patch breakpoints can also be made to work. c) arm: Nothing in kgdb works until paging_init() -> devicemaps_init() -> early_trap_init() Let's be conservative and, by default, process "kgdbwait" (which tells the kernel to drop into the debugger ASAP at boot) a bit later at dbg_late_init() time. If an architecture has tested it and wants to re-enable super early debugging, they can select the ARCH_HAS_EARLY_DEBUG KConfig option. We'll do this for x86 to start. It should be noted that dbg_late_init() is still called quite early in the system. Note that this patch doesn't affect when kgdb runs its init. If kgdb is set to initialize early it will still initialize when parsing early_param's. This patch _only_ inhibits the initial breakpoint from "kgdbwait". This means: * Without any extra patches arm64 platforms will at least catch crashes after kgdb inits. * arm platforms will catch crashes (and could handle a hardcoded kgdb_breakpoint()) any time after early_trap_init() runs, even before dbg_late_init(). Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Borislav Petkov Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200507130644.v4.4.I3113aea1b08d8ce36dc3720209392ae8b815201b@changeid Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson --- arch/x86/Kconfig | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'arch/x86/Kconfig') diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig index 1197b5596d5a..5f44955ee21c 100644 --- a/arch/x86/Kconfig +++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig @@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ config X86 select ARCH_HAS_ACPI_TABLE_UPGRADE if ACPI select ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VIRTUAL select ARCH_HAS_DEVMEM_IS_ALLOWED + select ARCH_HAS_EARLY_DEBUG if KGDB select ARCH_HAS_ELF_RANDOMIZE select ARCH_HAS_FAST_MULTIPLIER select ARCH_HAS_FILTER_PGPROT -- cgit v1.2.3