Commit 9c413e25 authored May 08, 2013 by Will Deacon Committed by Catalin Marinas May 13, 2013

arm64: debug: clear mdscr_el1 instead of taking the OS lock



During boot, we take the debug OS lock before interrupts are enabled.
This is required to prevent clearing of PSTATE.D on the interrupt entry
path, which could result in spurious debug exceptions before we've got
round to resetting things like the hardware breakpoints registers to a
sane state.

A problem with this approach is that taking the OS lock prevents an
external JTAG debugger from debugging the system, which is especially
irritating during boot, where JTAG debugging can be most useful.

This patch clears mdscr_el1 rather than taking the lock, clearing the
MDE and KDE bits and preventing self-hosted hardware debug exceptions
from occurring.

Tested-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org

parent 182a6f73

arch/arm64/kernel/debug-monitors.c

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		@@ -136,8 +136,6 @@ void disable_debug_monitors(enum debug_el el)
		*/
		static void clear_os_lock(void *unused)
		{
		asm volatile("msr mdscr_el1, %0" : : "r" (0));
		isb();
		asm volatile("msr oslar_el1, %0" : : "r" (0));
		isb();
		}

arch/arm64/mm/proc.S

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		@@ -119,8 +119,7 @@ ENTRY(__cpu_setup)

		mov x0, #3 << 20
		msr cpacr_el1, x0 // Enable FP/ASIMD
		mov x0, #1
		msr oslar_el1, x0 // Set the debug OS lock
		msr mdscr_el1, xzr // Reset mdscr_el1
		tlbi vmalle1is // invalidate I + D TLBs
		/*
		* Memory region attributes for LPAE:

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