Re: [RFC Patch 2/2][Bugfix][x86][hw-breakpoint] Fix return-code to notifier chain in hw_breakpoint_handler

[Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 11:58:33PM +0530, K.Prasad wrote:
> The hw-breakpoint handler will return NOTIFY_DONE for user-space breakpoints
> to generate SIGTRAP signal (and not for kernel-space addresses). 
> 
> Signed-off-by: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> ---
>  arch/x86/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c |    9 +++++++--
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> Index: linux-2.6-tip/arch/x86/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6-tip.orig/arch/x86/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c
> +++ linux-2.6-tip/arch/x86/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c
> @@ -502,8 +502,6 @@ static int __kprobes hw_breakpoint_handl
>  		rcu_read_lock();
>  
>  		bp = per_cpu(bp_per_reg[i], cpu);
> -		if (bp)
> -			rc = NOTIFY_DONE;
>  		/*
>  		 * Reset the 'i'th TRAP bit in dr6 to denote completion of
>  		 * exception handling
> @@ -517,6 +515,13 @@ static int __kprobes hw_breakpoint_handl
>  			rcu_read_unlock();
>  			break;
>  		}
> +		/*
> +		 * Further processing in do_debug() is needed for a) user-space
> +		 * breakpoints (to generate signals) and b) when the system has
> +		 * taken exception due to multiple causes
> +		 */
> +		if (bp->attr.bp_addr < TASK_SIZE)
> +			rc = NOTIFY_DONE;
>  
>  		perf_bp_event(bp, args->regs);
>  
> 


Oh and now that I see this patch, the previous one indeed makes sense
with this check:

if (dr6 & (~DR_TRAP_BITS))
	rc = NOTIFY_DONE;

That said, it means thread.debugreg6 won't get the reserved bits anymore.
I see some use of them from kvm (it restores the reserved bits on guest<->host
switch). Not sure if this inconsistency could affect kvm...