linux/arch/arm64/include/asm/assembler.h
Will Deacon 2a2830703a arm64: debug: avoid accessing mdscr_el1 on fault paths where possible
Since mdscr_el1 is part of the debug register group, it is highly likely
to be trapped by a hypervisor to prevent virtual machines from debugging
(buggering?) each other. Unfortunately, this absolutely destroys our
performance, since we access the register on many of our low-level
fault handling paths to keep track of the various debug state machines.

This patch removes our dependency on mdscr_el1 in the case that debugging
is not being used. More specifically we:

  - Use TIF_SINGLESTEP to indicate that a task is stepping at EL0 and
    avoid disabling step in the MDSCR when we don't need to.
    MDSCR_EL1.SS handling is moved to kernel_entry, when trapping from
    userspace.

  - Ensure debug exceptions are re-enabled on *all* exception entry
    paths, even the debug exception handling path (where we re-enable
    exceptions after invoking the handler). Since we can now rely on
    MDSCR_EL1.SS being cleared by the entry code, exception handlers can
    usually enable debug immediately before enabling interrupts.

  - Remove all debug exception unmasking from ret_to_user and
    el1_preempt, since we will never get here with debug exceptions
    masked.

This results in a slight change to kernel debug behaviour, where we now
step into interrupt handlers and data aborts from EL1 when debugging the
kernel, which is actually a useful thing to do. A side-effect of this is
that it *does* potentially prevent stepping off {break,watch}points when
there is a high-frequency interrupt source (e.g. a timer), so a debugger
would need to use either breakpoints or manually disable interrupts to
get around this issue.

With this patch applied, guest performance is restored under KVM when
debug register accesses are trapped (and we get a measurable performance
increase on the host on Cortex-A57 too).

Cc: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Tested-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
2014-05-12 16:43:28 +01:00

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/*
* Based on arch/arm/include/asm/assembler.h
*
* Copyright (C) 1996-2000 Russell King
* Copyright (C) 2012 ARM Ltd.
*
* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
* it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as
* published by the Free Software Foundation.
*
* This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
* but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
* MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
* GNU General Public License for more details.
*
* You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
* along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
*/
#ifndef __ASSEMBLY__
#error "Only include this from assembly code"
#endif
#include <asm/ptrace.h>
#include <asm/thread_info.h>
/*
* Stack pushing/popping (register pairs only). Equivalent to store decrement
* before, load increment after.
*/
.macro push, xreg1, xreg2
stp \xreg1, \xreg2, [sp, #-16]!
.endm
.macro pop, xreg1, xreg2
ldp \xreg1, \xreg2, [sp], #16
.endm
/*
* Enable and disable interrupts.
*/
.macro disable_irq
msr daifset, #2
.endm
.macro enable_irq
msr daifclr, #2
.endm
/*
* Save/disable and restore interrupts.
*/
.macro save_and_disable_irqs, olddaif
mrs \olddaif, daif
disable_irq
.endm
.macro restore_irqs, olddaif
msr daif, \olddaif
.endm
/*
* Enable and disable debug exceptions.
*/
.macro disable_dbg
msr daifset, #8
.endm
.macro enable_dbg
msr daifclr, #8
.endm
.macro disable_step_tsk, flgs, tmp
tbz \flgs, #TIF_SINGLESTEP, 9990f
mrs \tmp, mdscr_el1
bic \tmp, \tmp, #1
msr mdscr_el1, \tmp
isb // Synchronise with enable_dbg
9990:
.endm
.macro enable_step_tsk, flgs, tmp
tbz \flgs, #TIF_SINGLESTEP, 9990f
disable_dbg
mrs \tmp, mdscr_el1
orr \tmp, \tmp, #1
msr mdscr_el1, \tmp
9990:
.endm
/*
* Enable both debug exceptions and interrupts. This is likely to be
* faster than two daifclr operations, since writes to this register
* are self-synchronising.
*/
.macro enable_dbg_and_irq
msr daifclr, #(8 | 2)
.endm
/*
* SMP data memory barrier
*/
.macro smp_dmb, opt
#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
dmb \opt
#endif
.endm
#define USER(l, x...) \
9999: x; \
.section __ex_table,"a"; \
.align 3; \
.quad 9999b,l; \
.previous
/*
* Register aliases.
*/
lr .req x30 // link register
/*
* Vector entry
*/
.macro ventry label
.align 7
b \label
.endm
/*
* Select code when configured for BE.
*/
#ifdef CONFIG_CPU_BIG_ENDIAN
#define CPU_BE(code...) code
#else
#define CPU_BE(code...)
#endif
/*
* Select code when configured for LE.
*/
#ifdef CONFIG_CPU_BIG_ENDIAN
#define CPU_LE(code...)
#else
#define CPU_LE(code...) code
#endif
/*
* Define a macro that constructs a 64-bit value by concatenating two
* 32-bit registers. Note that on big endian systems the order of the
* registers is swapped.
*/
#ifndef CONFIG_CPU_BIG_ENDIAN
.macro regs_to_64, rd, lbits, hbits
#else
.macro regs_to_64, rd, hbits, lbits
#endif
orr \rd, \lbits, \hbits, lsl #32
.endm