From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932786Ab0I0IMe (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Sep 2010 04:12:34 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:25358 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758899Ab0I0IMa (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Sep 2010 04:12:30 -0400 Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 10:12:16 +0200 From: Jiri Olsa To: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Peter Zijlstra , Jason Wessel , kgdb-bugreport@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: kgdb segv in the latest tip due to perf ctx changes Message-ID: <20100927081216.GC1829@jolsa.brq.redhat.com> References: <20100924180417.GC1818@jolsa.brq.redhat.com> <4C9D0A82.5020406@windriver.com> <1285374560.2275.1054.camel@laptop> <20100925135532.GA5349@nowhere> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100925135532.GA5349@nowhere> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-12-10) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 03:55:35PM +0200, Frederic Weisbecker wrote: > On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 02:29:20AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > On Fri, 2010-09-24 at 15:30 -0500, Jason Wessel wrote: > > > Jiri, > > > > > > Can you try this simple patch which is attached? > > > > > > > > > > > > On 09/24/2010 01:04 PM, Jiri Olsa wrote: > > > > while starting kgdb early debug on latest tip tree, > > > > I got SIGSEGV inside kernel in following location: > > > > > > > > > > > [clip] > > > > I found out it's due to foolowing commit, that's causing the init code > > > > to be called without the ctx field being defined... > > > > > > > > commit c3f00c70276d8ae82578c8b773e2db657f69a478 > > > > Author: Peter Zijlstra > > > > Date: Wed Aug 18 14:37:15 2010 +0200 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I took a look at the tip core, and the ctx parameter is no longer passed > > > into the perf_event_alloc() from perf_event_create_kernel_counter() kgdb > > > no longer gets it filled in for free. > > > > > > The reality is that kgdb never had a true context or a way to mark the > > > hw breakpoint as a kernel only context for the hw breakpoint > > > reservations. The patch is only a short term fix perhaps until on of > > > the perf guys explains the right way to use it. :-) > > > > Argh, yes, its using the ctx rather early.. we cannot have a context > > before we've initialized the event, and here it looks like hw_breakpoint > > wants to use the context to initialize the event, chick, egg, etc.. > > > > Frederic, anything we can do about that? > > > > Jason's patch is partially good, it just lacks one place to handle. > Jiri, can you test that? it works ok feel free to add Tested-by: Jiri Olsa thanks, jirka