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From: "K.Prasad" <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>,
	Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, mingo@elte.hu,
	richardj_moore@uk.ibm.com
Subject: [RFC Patch 9/10] Cleanup HW Breakpoint registers before kexec
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 19:40:19 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090122141019.GH19592@in.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090122135640.GA11161@in.ibm.com>

This patch disables Hardware breakpoints before doing a 'kexec' on the machine.

Signed-off-by: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_32.c |    2 ++
 arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c |    2 ++
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+)

Index: linux-hbkpt-lkml-29-rc2/arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_32.c
===================================================================
--- linux-hbkpt-lkml-29-rc2.orig/arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_32.c
+++ linux-hbkpt-lkml-29-rc2/arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_32.c
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
 #include <asm/desc.h>
 #include <asm/system.h>
 #include <asm/cacheflush.h>
+#include <asm/debugreg.h>
 
 static void set_idt(void *newidt, __u16 limit)
 {
@@ -202,6 +203,7 @@ void machine_kexec(struct kimage *image)
 
 	/* Interrupts aren't acceptable while we reboot */
 	local_irq_disable();
+	disable_debug_registers();
 
 	if (image->preserve_context) {
 #ifdef CONFIG_X86_IO_APIC
Index: linux-hbkpt-lkml-29-rc2/arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c
===================================================================
--- linux-hbkpt-lkml-29-rc2.orig/arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c
+++ linux-hbkpt-lkml-29-rc2/arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
 #include <asm/tlbflush.h>
 #include <asm/mmu_context.h>
 #include <asm/io.h>
+#include <asm/debugreg.h>
 
 #define PAGE_ALIGNED __attribute__ ((__aligned__(PAGE_SIZE)))
 static u64 kexec_pgd[512] PAGE_ALIGNED;
@@ -190,6 +191,7 @@ void machine_kexec(struct kimage *image)
 
 	/* Interrupts aren't acceptable while we reboot */
 	local_irq_disable();
+	disable_debug_registers();
 
 	control_page = page_address(image->control_code_page) + PAGE_SIZE;
 	memcpy(control_page, relocate_kernel, PAGE_SIZE);

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-01-22 14:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-22 13:56 [RFC Patch 0/9] Hardware Breakpoint interfaces - v4 K.Prasad
2009-01-22 14:00 ` [RFC Patch 1/10] Introducing generic hardware breakpoint handler interfaces K.Prasad
2009-01-29  3:55   ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-01-30 11:19     ` K.Prasad
2009-01-30 15:55       ` Alan Stern
2009-02-01 13:54         ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-02-01 18:05           ` Alan Stern
2009-02-03 17:23             ` K.Prasad
2009-02-03 20:07               ` Alan Stern
2009-01-22 14:04 ` [RFC Patch 2/10] x86 architecture implementation of Hardware Breakpoint interfaces K.Prasad
2009-01-22 14:05 ` [RFC Patch 3/10] Modifying generic debug exception to use virtual debug registers K.Prasad
2009-01-22 14:05 ` [RFC Patch 4/10] Modify kprobe exception handler to recognise single-stepping by HW Breakpoint handler K.Prasad
2009-01-22 14:06 ` [RFC Patch 5/10] Use wrapper routines around debug registers in processor related functions K.Prasad
2009-01-22 14:07 ` [RFC Patch 6/10] Use virtual debug registers in process/thread handling code K.Prasad
2009-01-22 14:08 ` [RFC Patch 7/10] Modify signal handling code to refrain from re-enabling HW Breakpoints K.Prasad
2009-01-22 14:09 ` [RFC Patch 8/10] Modify Ptrace routines to access breakpoint registers K.Prasad
2009-01-22 14:10 ` K.Prasad [this message]
2009-01-22 14:12 ` [RFC Patch 10/10] Sample HW breakpoint over kernel data address K.Prasad
2009-01-22 15:42 ` [RFC Patch 0/9] Hardware Breakpoint interfaces - v4 Alan Stern
2009-01-23 11:07   ` K.Prasad
2009-01-29  7:05     ` K.Prasad
2009-01-28  0:15 ` Andrew Morton
2009-01-28 18:08   ` K.Prasad

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