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From: "K.Prasad" <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@au1.ibm.com>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
	Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com>,
	Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	"K.Prasad" <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: [Patch 07/11] Modify signal handling code to refrain from re-enabling HW Breakpoints
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 05:19:28 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090319234928.GH10517@in.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20090319234044.410725944@K.Prasad

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From: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>

This patch disables re-enabling of Hardware Breakpoint registers through
the  signal handling code. This is now done during
hw_breakpoint_handler().

Signed-off-by: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/signal.c |    9 ---------
 1 file changed, 9 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6-tip.hbkpt/arch/x86/kernel/signal.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6-tip.hbkpt.orig/arch/x86/kernel/signal.c
+++ linux-2.6-tip.hbkpt/arch/x86/kernel/signal.c
@@ -794,15 +794,6 @@ static void do_signal(struct pt_regs *re
 
 	signr = get_signal_to_deliver(&info, &ka, regs, NULL);
 	if (signr > 0) {
-		/*
-		 * Re-enable any watchpoints before delivering the
-		 * signal to user space. The processor register will
-		 * have been cleared if the watchpoint triggered
-		 * inside the kernel.
-		 */
-		if (current->thread.debugreg7)
-			set_debugreg(current->thread.debugreg7, 7);
-
 		/* Whee! Actually deliver the signal.  */
 		if (handle_signal(signr, &info, &ka, oldset, regs) == 0) {
 			/*


  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-03-19 23:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20090319234044.410725944@K.Prasad>
2009-03-19 23:48 ` [Patch 01/11] Introducing generic hardware breakpoint handler interfaces K.Prasad
2009-03-20 14:33   ` Alan Stern
2009-03-20 18:30     ` Ingo Molnar
2009-03-21 17:32       ` K.Prasad
2009-03-20 18:32     ` Ingo Molnar
2009-03-21 17:26     ` K.Prasad
2009-03-21 21:39       ` Alan Stern
2009-03-23 19:03         ` K.Prasad
2009-03-23 19:21           ` Alan Stern
2009-03-23 20:42             ` K.Prasad
2009-03-23 21:20               ` Alan Stern
2009-03-19 23:48 ` [Patch 02/11] x86 architecture implementation of Hardware Breakpoint interfaces K.Prasad
2009-03-19 23:48 ` [Patch 03/11] Modifying generic debug exception to use thread-specific debug registers K.Prasad
2009-03-19 23:49 ` [Patch 04/11] Introduce user-space " K.Prasad
2009-03-19 23:49 ` [Patch 05/11] Use wrapper routines around debug registers in processor related functions K.Prasad
2009-03-19 23:49 ` [Patch 06/11] Use the new wrapper routines to access debug registers in process/thread code K.Prasad
2009-03-19 23:49 ` K.Prasad [this message]
2009-03-19 23:49 ` [Patch 08/11] Modify Ptrace routines to access breakpoint registers K.Prasad
2009-03-19 23:49 ` [Patch 09/11] Cleanup HW Breakpoint registers before kexec K.Prasad
2009-03-19 23:50 ` [Patch 10/11] Sample HW breakpoint over kernel data address K.Prasad
2009-03-19 23:50 ` [Patch 11/11] ftrace plugin for kernel symbol tracing using HW Breakpoint interfaces - v2 K.Prasad
2009-03-20  9:04   ` Frederic Weisbecker
2009-03-21 16:24     ` K.Prasad
2009-03-21 16:39       ` Steven Rostedt
2009-03-23 19:08         ` K.Prasad
     [not found] <20090407063058.301701787@prasadkr_t60p.in.ibm.com>
2009-04-07  6:36 ` [Patch 07/11] Modify signal handling code to refrain from re-enabling HW Breakpoints K.Prasad
     [not found] <20090324152028.754123712@K.Prasad>
2009-03-24 15:26 ` K.Prasad
     [not found] <20090307045120.039324630@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2009-03-07  5:06 ` prasad
     [not found] <20090305043440.189041194@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2009-03-05  4:40 ` [patch " prasad

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