This patchset adds initial support for hardware breakpoints and watchpoints to the RISC-V architecture. The framework is built on top of perf subsystem and SBI debug trigger extension.
Currently following features are not supported and are in works: - icount for single stepping - Virtualization of debug triggers - kernel space debug triggers
The SBI debug trigger extension can be found at: https://github.com/riscv-non-isa/riscv-sbi-doc/blob/master/src/ext-debug-tri...
The Sdtrig ISA is part of RISC-V debug specification which can be found at: https://github.com/riscv/riscv-debug-spec
based off the original RFC by Himanshu Chauhan here: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240222125059.13331-1-hchauhan@ventanamicro.co...
Second RFC by Jesse Taube here: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20250722173829.984082-1-jesse@rivosinc.com/
Himanshu Chauhan (2): riscv: Add SBI debug trigger extension and function ids riscv: Introduce support for hardware break/watchpoints
Jesse Taube (6): riscv: Add insn.c, consolidate instruction decoding riscv: insn: Add get_insn_nofault riscv: hw_breakpoint: Use icount for single stepping riscv: ptrace: Add hw breakpoint support riscv: ptrace: Add hw breakpoint regset selftests: riscv: Add test for hardware breakpoints
arch/riscv/Kconfig | 13 + arch/riscv/include/asm/bug.h | 12 - arch/riscv/include/asm/hw_breakpoint.h | 59 ++ arch/riscv/include/asm/insn.h | 132 ++- arch/riscv/include/asm/kdebug.h | 3 +- arch/riscv/include/asm/processor.h | 4 + arch/riscv/include/asm/sbi.h | 33 +- arch/riscv/include/uapi/asm/ptrace.h | 9 + arch/riscv/kernel/Makefile | 2 + arch/riscv/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c | 769 ++++++++++++++++++ arch/riscv/kernel/insn.c | 165 ++++ arch/riscv/kernel/kgdb.c | 102 +-- arch/riscv/kernel/probes/kprobes.c | 1 + arch/riscv/kernel/process.c | 4 + arch/riscv/kernel/ptrace.c | 169 ++++ arch/riscv/kernel/traps.c | 11 +- arch/riscv/kernel/traps_misaligned.c | 93 +-- include/uapi/linux/elf.h | 2 + tools/include/uapi/linux/elf.h | 1 + tools/perf/tests/tests.h | 3 +- tools/testing/selftests/riscv/Makefile | 2 +- .../selftests/riscv/breakpoints/.gitignore | 1 + .../selftests/riscv/breakpoints/Makefile | 12 + .../riscv/breakpoints/breakpoint_test.c | 246 ++++++ 24 files changed, 1657 insertions(+), 191 deletions(-) create mode 100644 arch/riscv/include/asm/hw_breakpoint.h create mode 100644 arch/riscv/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c create mode 100644 arch/riscv/kernel/insn.c create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/riscv/breakpoints/.gitignore create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/riscv/breakpoints/Makefile create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/riscv/breakpoints/breakpoint_test.c