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From: "K.Prasad" <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@au1.ibm.com>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
	maneesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com, Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	"K.Prasad" <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: [Patch 09/11] Cleanup HW Breakpoint registers before kexec
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2009 12:06:46 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090407063646.GJ17461@in.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20090407063058.301701787@prasadkr_t60p.in.ibm.com

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

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

[K.Prasad: Split-out from the bigger patch and minor changes following
           re-basing]

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: arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_32.c
===================================================================
--- arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_32.c.orig	2009-04-01 20:53:43.000000000 +0530
+++ arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_32.c	2009-04-01 20:54:46.000000000 +0530
@@ -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 @@
 
 	/* Interrupts aren't acceptable while we reboot */
 	local_irq_disable();
+	hw_breakpoint_disable();
 
 	if (image->preserve_context) {
 #ifdef CONFIG_X86_IO_APIC
Index: arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c
===================================================================
--- arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c.orig	2009-04-01 20:53:43.000000000 +0530
+++ arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c	2009-04-01 20:54:46.000000000 +0530
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
 #include <asm/pgtable.h>
 #include <asm/tlbflush.h>
 #include <asm/mmu_context.h>
+#include <asm/debugreg.h>
 
 static int init_one_level2_page(struct kimage *image, pgd_t *pgd,
 				unsigned long addr)
@@ -282,6 +283,7 @@
 
 	/* Interrupts aren't acceptable while we reboot */
 	local_irq_disable();
+	hw_breakpoint_disable();
 
 	if (image->preserve_context) {
 #ifdef CONFIG_X86_IO_APIC


  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-04-07  6:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20090407063058.301701787@prasadkr_t60p.in.ibm.com>
2009-04-07  6:35 ` [Patch 01/11] Prepare the code for Hardware Breakpoint interfaces K.Prasad
2009-04-07  6:35 ` [Patch 02/11] Introducing generic hardware breakpoint handler interfaces K.Prasad
2009-04-07  6:35 ` [Patch 03/11] x86 architecture implementation of Hardware Breakpoint interfaces K.Prasad
2009-04-07  6:36 ` [Patch 04/11] Modifying generic debug exception to use thread-specific debug registers K.Prasad
2009-04-07  6:36 ` [Patch 05/11] Use wrapper routines around debug registers in processor related functions K.Prasad
2009-04-07  6:36 ` [Patch 06/11] Use the new wrapper routines to access debug registers in process/thread code K.Prasad
2009-04-07  6:36 ` [Patch 07/11] Modify signal handling code to refrain from re-enabling HW Breakpoints K.Prasad
2009-04-07  6:36 ` [Patch 08/11] Modify Ptrace routines to access breakpoint registers K.Prasad
2009-04-07  6:36 ` K.Prasad [this message]
2009-04-07  6:37 ` [Patch 10/11] Sample HW breakpoint over kernel data address K.Prasad
2009-04-07  6:37 ` [Patch 11/11] ftrace plugin for kernel symbol tracing using HW Breakpoint interfaces - v2 K.Prasad
2009-04-08  8:02   ` Frederic Weisbecker
2009-04-08 11:12     ` K.Prasad
     [not found] <20090324152028.754123712@K.Prasad>
2009-03-24 15:27 ` [Patch 09/11] Cleanup HW Breakpoint registers before kexec K.Prasad
     [not found] <20090319234044.410725944@K.Prasad>
2009-03-19 23:49 ` K.Prasad
     [not found] <20090307045120.039324630@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2009-03-07  5:07 ` prasad
     [not found] <20090305043440.189041194@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2009-03-05  4:41 ` [patch " prasad
2009-03-10 14:42   ` Ingo Molnar

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