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authorBarry Song <song.bao.hua@hisilicon.com>2021-05-07 04:05:09 +0300
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2021-05-07 10:26:33 +0300
commit526940e3962620f1a24d5e30c3dac7358194d963 (patch)
tree0790f466d62ce8fa68a4a6a9de151b7b56d40363 /Documentation/dev-tools
parentdc9586823f3e06867344e6cf88741688c2c7737f (diff)
downloadlinux-526940e3962620f1a24d5e30c3dac7358194d963.tar.xz
scripts/gdb: add lx_current support for arm64
arm64 uses SP_EL0 to save the current task_struct address. While running in EL0, SP_EL0 is clobbered by userspace. So if the upper bit is not 1 (not TTBR1), the current address is invalid. This patch checks the upper bit of SP_EL0, if the upper bit is 1, lx_current() of arm64 will return the derefrence of current task. Otherwise, lx_current() will tell users they are running in userspace(EL0). While arm64 is running in EL0, it is actually pointless to print current task as the memory of kernel space is not accessible in EL0. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210314203444.15188-3-song.bao.hua@hisilicon.com Signed-off-by: Barry Song <song.bao.hua@hisilicon.com> Cc: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Kieran Bingham <kbingham@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/dev-tools/gdb-kernel-debugging.rst2
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diff --git a/Documentation/dev-tools/gdb-kernel-debugging.rst b/Documentation/dev-tools/gdb-kernel-debugging.rst
index 1586901b683c..8e0f1fe8d17a 100644
--- a/Documentation/dev-tools/gdb-kernel-debugging.rst
+++ b/Documentation/dev-tools/gdb-kernel-debugging.rst
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ Examples of using the Linux-provided gdb helpers
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x000000000009fc00-0x000000000009ffff] reserved
....
-- Examine fields of the current task struct(supported by x86 only)::
+- Examine fields of the current task struct(supported by x86 and arm64 only)::
(gdb) p $lx_current().pid
$1 = 4998