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From: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
To: Jisheng Zhang <jszhang3@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
Cc: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com>,
	Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>,
	Albert Ou <aou@eecs.berkeley.edu>,
	Guo Ren <guoren@linux.alibaba.com>,
	linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] riscv: keep interrupts disabled for BREAKPOINT exception
Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2021 09:30:36 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210401093036.037f2abbce7ed5d1e68466b7@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210331222244.45a5807c@xhacker>

Hi,

On Wed, 31 Mar 2021 22:22:44 +0800
Jisheng Zhang <jszhang3@mail.ustc.edu.cn> wrote:

> On Tue, 30 Mar 2021 18:33:16 +0900
> Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> wrote:
> 
> > Hi Jisheng,
> 
> Hi Masami,
> 
> > 
> > On Tue, 30 Mar 2021 02:16:24 +0800
> > Jisheng Zhang <jszhang3@mail.ustc.edu.cn> wrote:
> > 
> > > From: Jisheng Zhang <jszhang@kernel.org>
> > > 
> > > Current riscv's kprobe handlers are run with both preemption and
> > > interrupt enabled, this violates kprobe requirements. Fix this issue
> > > by keeping interrupts disabled for BREAKPOINT exception.  
> > 
> > Not only while the breakpoint exception but also until the end of
> > the single step (maybe you are using __BUG_INSN_32 ??) need to be
> > disable interrupts. Can this do that?
> > 
> 
> interrupt is disabled during "single step" by kprobes_save_local_irqflag()
> and kprobes_restore_local_irqflag(). The code flow looks like: 
> 
> do_trap_break()   // for bp
>   kprobe_breakpoint_handler()
>     setup_singlestep()
>       kprobes_restore_local_irqflag()
> 
> do_trap_break()  // for ss
>   kprobe_single_step_handler()
>     kprobes_restore_local_irqflag()

OK, thanks for the confirmation!

Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>

Thanks,

-- 
Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>

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  reply	other threads:[~2021-04-01  0:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-03-29 18:16 [PATCH] riscv: keep interrupts disabled for BREAKPOINT exception Jisheng Zhang
2021-03-30  9:33 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2021-03-31 14:22   ` Jisheng Zhang
2021-04-01  0:30     ` Masami Hiramatsu [this message]
2021-04-03 18:30       ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2021-04-08 11:23         ` Jisheng Zhang
2021-04-08 22:38           ` Masami Hiramatsu
2021-04-08 22:45             ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2021-04-01  8:49     ` liaochang (A)
2021-04-02 13:32       ` Jisheng Zhang
2021-04-06  7:27         ` liaochang (A)
2021-04-12  1:09 ` Palmer Dabbelt

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