From: "\"“tiejun.chen”\"" <tiejun.chen@windriver.com>
To: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [v5][PATCH 6/6] book3e/kgdb: Fix a single stgep case of lazy IRQ
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2013 17:28:12 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <526796AC.9000207@windriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1382139147.7979.934.camel@snotra.buserror.net>
On 10/19/2013 07:32 AM, Scott Wood wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-06-20 at 18:28 +0800, Tiejun Chen wrote:
>> When we're in kgdb_singlestep(), we have to work around to get
>> thread_info by copying from the kernel stack before calling
>> kgdb_handle_exception(), then copying it back afterwards.
>>
>> But for PPC64, we have a lazy interrupt implementation. So after
>> copying thread info frome kernle stack, if we need to replay an
>> interrupt, we shouldn't restore that previous backup thread info
>> to make sure we can replay an interrupt lately with a proper
>> thread info.
>
> Explain why copying it would be a problem.
>
This would be gone away in next version as well :)
Thanks,
Tiejun
prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-10-23 9:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-06-20 10:28 [v5][PATCH 0/6] powerpc/book3e: powerpc/book3e: make kgdb to work well Tiejun Chen
2013-06-20 10:28 ` [v5][PATCH 1/6] powerpc/book3e: load critical/machine/debug exception stack Tiejun Chen
2013-10-18 22:37 ` Scott Wood
2013-10-23 9:26 ` "“tiejun.chen”"
2013-10-18 23:55 ` Scott Wood
2013-10-23 9:28 ` "“tiejun.chen”"
2013-06-20 10:28 ` [v5][PATCH 2/6] powerpc/book3e: store critical/machine/debug exception thread info Tiejun Chen
2013-10-18 22:43 ` Scott Wood
2013-10-23 9:27 ` "“tiejun.chen”"
2013-06-20 10:28 ` [v5][PATCH 3/6] book3e/kgdb: update thread's dbcr0 Tiejun Chen
2013-10-18 22:57 ` Scott Wood
2013-10-23 9:27 ` "“tiejun.chen”"
2013-06-20 10:28 ` [v5][PATCH 4/6] powerpc/book3e: support kgdb for kernel space Tiejun Chen
2013-10-18 22:58 ` Scott Wood
2013-10-23 9:27 ` "“tiejun.chen”"
2013-06-20 10:28 ` [v5][PATCH 5/6] powerpc/kgdb: use DEFINE_PER_CPU to allocate kgdb's thread_info Tiejun Chen
2013-06-20 10:28 ` [v5][PATCH 6/6] book3e/kgdb: Fix a single stgep case of lazy IRQ Tiejun Chen
2013-10-18 23:32 ` Scott Wood
2013-10-23 9:28 ` "“tiejun.chen”" [this message]
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