From: "K.Prasad" <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>,
Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, mingo@elte.hu,
richardj_moore@uk.ibm.com
Subject: [RFC Patch 9/9] Cleanup HW Breakpoint registers before kexec
Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2008 00:47:15 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081204191715.GI20563@in.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081204190804.GA15134@in.ibm.com>
This patch disables Hardware breakpoints before doing a 'kexec' on the machine.
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: linux-2.6.28-rc5-bkpt-latest/arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_32.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.28-rc5-bkpt-latest.orig/arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_32.c
+++ linux-2.6.28-rc5-bkpt-latest/arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_32.c
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
#include <asm/desc.h>
#include <asm/system.h>
#include <asm/cacheflush.h>
+#include <asm/debugreg.h>
#define PAGE_ALIGNED __attribute__ ((__aligned__(PAGE_SIZE)))
static u32 kexec_pgd[1024] PAGE_ALIGNED;
@@ -131,6 +132,7 @@ void machine_kexec(struct kimage *image)
/* Interrupts aren't acceptable while we reboot */
local_irq_disable();
+ disable_debug_registers();
if (image->preserve_context) {
#ifdef CONFIG_X86_IO_APIC
Index: linux-2.6.28-rc5-bkpt-latest/arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.28-rc5-bkpt-latest.orig/arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c
+++ linux-2.6.28-rc5-bkpt-latest/arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
#include <asm/tlbflush.h>
#include <asm/mmu_context.h>
#include <asm/io.h>
+#include <asm/debugreg.h>
#define PAGE_ALIGNED __attribute__ ((__aligned__(PAGE_SIZE)))
static u64 kexec_pgd[512] PAGE_ALIGNED;
@@ -190,6 +191,7 @@ void machine_kexec(struct kimage *image)
/* Interrupts aren't acceptable while we reboot */
local_irq_disable();
+ disable_debug_registers();
control_page = page_address(image->control_code_page) + PAGE_SIZE;
memcpy(control_page, relocate_kernel, PAGE_SIZE);
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-04 19:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-04 19:08 [RFC Patch 0/9] Hardware Breakpoint interfaces - v2 K.Prasad
2008-12-04 19:11 ` [RFC Patch 1/9] Introducing generic hardware breakpoint handler interfaces K.Prasad
2008-12-04 19:38 ` David Daney
2008-12-17 3:47 ` K.Prasad
2008-12-04 19:11 ` [RFC Patch 2/9] x86 architecture implementation of Hardware Breakpoint interfaces K.Prasad
2008-12-04 19:12 ` [RFC Patch 3/9] Modifying generic debug exception to use virtual debug registers K.Prasad
2008-12-04 19:13 ` [RFC Patch 4/9] Modify kprobe exception handler to recognise single-stepping by HW Breakpoint handler K.Prasad
2008-12-04 19:13 ` [RFC Patch 5/9] Use wrapper routines around debug registers in processor related functions K.Prasad
2008-12-04 19:13 ` [RFC Patch 6/9] Use virtual debug registers in process/thread handling code K.Prasad
2008-12-04 19:14 ` [RFC Patch 7/9] Modify signal handling code to refrain from re-enabling HW Breakpoints K.Prasad
2008-12-04 19:16 ` [RFC Patch 8/9] Modify Ptrace routines to access breakpoint registers K.Prasad
2008-12-04 19:17 ` K.Prasad [this message]
2008-12-04 19:17 ` [RFC Patch 0/9] Hardware Breakpoint interfaces - v2 K.Prasad
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-10-08 19:20 K.Prasad
2008-10-08 19:27 ` [RFC Patch 9/9] Cleanup HW Breakpoint registers before kexec K.Prasad
2008-10-07 11:38 [RFC Patch 0/9] Hardware Breakpoint interfaces K.Prasad
2008-10-07 11:46 ` [RFC Patch 9/9] Cleanup HW Breakpoint registers before kexec K.Prasad
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20081204191715.GI20563@in.ibm.com \
--to=prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com \
--cc=akpm@linux-foundation.org \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=mingo@elte.hu \
--cc=richardj_moore@uk.ibm.com \
--cc=roland@redhat.com \
--cc=stern@rowland.harvard.edu \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox
Powered by JetHome