From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoffer Dall Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 09/11] KVM: arm64: guest debug, HW assisted debug support Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2015 11:31:14 +0200 Message-ID: <20150706093114.GB11590@cbox> References: <1435775343-20034-1-git-send-email-alex.bennee@linaro.org> <1435775343-20034-10-git-send-email-alex.bennee@linaro.org> <20150702084847.GB3418@arm.com> <87pp4asm6u.fsf@linaro.org> <20150703092323.GA1588@arm.com> <87h9plrzqq.fsf@linaro.org> <20150706085140.GA30342@arm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Alex =?iso-8859-1?Q?Benn=E9e?= , "kvm@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" , "kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu" , Marc Zyngier , "peter.maydell@linaro.org" , "agraf@suse.de" , "drjones@redhat.com" , "pbonzini@redhat.com" , "zhichao.huang@linaro.org" , "jan.kiszka@siemens.com" , "dahi@linux.vnet.ibm.com" , "r65777@freescale.com" , "bp@suse.de" , Gleb Natapov , Jonathan Corbet , Catalin Marinas , Lorenzo Pieralisi , Ingo Molnar , To: Will Deacon Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20150706085140.GA30342@arm.com> Sender: linux-doc-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: kvm.vger.kernel.org On Mon, Jul 06, 2015 at 09:51:40AM +0100, Will Deacon wrote: > On Fri, Jul 03, 2015 at 05:07:41PM +0100, Alex Benn=E9e wrote: > > Will Deacon writes: > > > On Thu, Jul 02, 2015 at 02:50:33PM +0100, Alex Benn=E9e wrote: > > >> Are you happy with this?: > > > > > > [...] > > > > > >> +/** > > >> + * kvm_arch_dev_ioctl_check_extension > > >> + * > > >> + * We currently assume that the number of HW registers is unifo= rm > > >> + * across all CPUs (see cpuinfo_sanity_check). > > >> + */ > > >> int kvm_arch_dev_ioctl_check_extension(long ext) > > >> { > > >> int r; > > >> @@ -64,6 +71,12 @@ int kvm_arch_dev_ioctl_check_extension(long e= xt) > > >> case KVM_CAP_ARM_EL1_32BIT: > > >> r =3D cpu_has_32bit_el1(); > > >> break; > > >> + case KVM_CAP_GUEST_DEBUG_HW_BPS: > > >> + r =3D hw_breakpoint_slots(TYPE_INST); > > >> + break; > > >> + case KVM_CAP_GUEST_DEBUG_HW_WPS: > > >> + r =3D hw_breakpoint_slots(TYPE_DATA); > > >> + break; > > > > > > Whilst I much prefer this code, it actually adds an unwanted depe= ndency > > > on PERF_EVENTS that I didn't think about to start with. Sorry to = keep > > > messing you about -- I guess your original patch is the best thin= g after > > > all. > >=20 > > Everything looks to be in hw_breakpoint.[ch] which does depend on > > CONFIG_HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT which depends on PERF_EVENTS to be built. > > However the previous code depended on this behaviour as well. >=20 > I think your original approach (of sticking stuff in the header file)= works > regardless of the CONFIG option, no? >=20 > > It would seem weird to enable guest debug using HW debug registers = to > > debug the guest yet not allowing the host kernel to use them? Of co= urse > > this is the only code they would share as all the magic of guest > > debugging is already mostly there for dirty guest handling. > >=20 > > I'm not familiar with Kconfig but it looks like this is all part of > > arm64 defconfig. Are people really going to want to disable PERF_EV= ENTS > > but still debug their guests with HW support? >=20 > Then it's your call. I just find the host dependency on perf a bit we= ird > to get guest debug working (especially as the dependency is completel= y > "fake" because we don't use any perf infrastructure at all). >=20 Agreed, let's see if we can avoid this. Thanks, -Christoffer