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From: will.deacon@arm.com (Will Deacon)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH 0/2] Fix ptrace software breakpoints
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 10:43:42 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <002401cb2d70$33206820$99613860$@deacon@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C4E36CE.3080108@ti.com>

Hi Rob,

> > Will Deacon (2):
> >    ARM: errata: TLBIASIDIS and TLBIMVAIS operations can broadcast a
> >      faulty ASID
> >    ARM: flush_ptrace_access: invalidate all I-caches
> >
> >   arch/arm/Kconfig                |   12 ++++++++++++
> >   arch/arm/include/asm/tlbflush.h |    8 ++++++++
> >   arch/arm/mm/flush.c             |    4 ++--
> >   3 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> 
> Tested on omap4430 (cortex-a9 SMP).. with this patchset I have yet to
> see it fail, in regular use nor in the test case I wrote to show the
> problem (git://github.com/robclark/gdb-test.git).  Without these
> patches, I'd see SIGILL and missed breakpoints 90+% of the time in
> regular use of gdb (basically gdb was unusable unless I booted with
> nosmp or disabled cache), and 100% of the time in my gdb-test.
> 
> Tested-by: Rob Clark<rob@ti.com>

Thanks for testing this. I've seen the same results on my Versatile
Express board running Ubuntu Lucid.

Russell - can I submit these to the patch system please or do you have
any outstanding concerns?

Cheers,

Will

 

      reply	other threads:[~2010-07-27  9:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-07-15 15:53 [PATCH 0/2] Fix ptrace software breakpoints Will Deacon
2010-07-15 15:53 ` [PATCH 1/2] ARM: errata: TLBIASIDIS and TLBIMVAIS operations can broadcast a faulty ASID Will Deacon
2010-07-15 15:53   ` [PATCH 2/2] ARM: flush_ptrace_access: invalidate all I-caches Will Deacon
2010-07-15 16:32     ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2010-07-15 16:43       ` Will Deacon
2010-07-15 16:54         ` Catalin Marinas
2010-07-19 16:23         ` Will Deacon
2010-08-04 11:24       ` Will Deacon
2010-07-15 16:21   ` [PATCH 1/2] ARM: errata: TLBIASIDIS and TLBIMVAIS operations can broadcast a faulty ASID Shilimkar, Santosh
2010-07-15 16:32     ` Will Deacon
2010-07-15 16:43       ` Shilimkar, Santosh
2010-07-16  4:15 ` [PATCH 0/2] Fix ptrace software breakpoints Rob Clark
2010-07-20 17:23   ` Will Deacon
2010-07-27  1:30 ` Rob Clark
2010-07-27  9:43   ` Will Deacon [this message]

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