[PATCH 2/6] x86/hw-breakpoints: Actually flush thread breakpoints in flush_thread().

Frederic Weisbecker
2009-10-24T14:17:23Z

From: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>

flush_thread() tries to do a TIF_DEBUG check before calling in to
flush_thread_hw_breakpoint() (which subsequently clears the thread flag),
but for some reason, the x86 code is manually clearing TIF_DEBUG
immediately before the test, so this path will never be taken.

This kills off the erroneous clear_tsk_thread_flag() and lets
flush_thread_hw_breakpoint() actually get invoked.

Presumably folks were getting lucky with testing and the
free_thread_info() -> free_thread_xstate() path was taking care of the
flush there.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Acked-by: "K.Prasad" <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
LKML-Reference: <20091005102306.GA7889@linux-sh.org>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
---
arch/x86/kernel/process.c | 2 --
1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/process.c b/arch/x86/kernel/process.c
index 2275ce5..cf8ee00 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/process.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/process.c
@@ -107,8 +107,6 @@ void flush_thread(void)
}
#endif

- clear_tsk_thread_flag(tsk, TIF_DEBUG);
-
if (unlikely(test_tsk_thread_flag(tsk, TIF_DEBUG)))
flush_thread_hw_breakpoint(tsk);
memset(tsk->thread.tls_array, 0, sizeof(tsk->thread.tls_array));
--
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