From: prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com
To: mingo@elte.hu
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>,
Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>,
"K.Prasad" <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: [Patch 09/11] Cleanup HW Breakpoint registers before kexec
Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2009 10:37:23 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090307050723.GJ23959@in.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090307045120.039324630@linux.vnet.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: linux-2.6-tip/arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_32.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6-tip.orig/arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_32.c
+++ linux-2.6-tip/arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_32.c
@@ -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 @@ 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-tip/arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6-tip.orig/arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c
+++ linux-2.6-tip/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>
static void init_level2_page(pmd_t *level2p, unsigned long addr)
{
@@ -234,6 +235,7 @@ 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:[~2009-03-07 5:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20090307045120.039324630@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2009-03-07 5:04 ` [Patch 01/11] Introducing generic hardware breakpoint handler interfaces prasad
2009-03-07 5:05 ` [Patch 02/11] x86 architecture implementation of Hardware Breakpoint interfaces prasad
2009-03-07 5:06 ` [Patch 03/11] Modifying generic debug exception to use virtual debug registers prasad
2009-03-07 5:06 ` [Patch 04/11] Introduce virtual debug register in thread_struct and wrapper-routines around process related functions prasad
2009-03-07 5:06 ` [Patch 05/11] Use wrapper routines around debug registers in processor " prasad
2009-03-07 5:06 ` [Patch 06/11] Use virtual debug registers in process/thread handling code prasad
2009-03-07 5:06 ` [Patch 07/11] Modify signal handling code to refrain from re-enabling HW Breakpoints prasad
2009-03-07 5:07 ` [Patch 08/11] Modify Ptrace routines to access breakpoint registers prasad
2009-03-07 5:07 ` prasad [this message]
2009-03-07 5:07 ` [Patch 10/11] Sample HW breakpoint over kernel data address prasad
2009-03-07 5:07 ` [Patch 11/11] ftrace plugin for kernel symbol tracing using HW Breakpoint interfaces - v2 prasad
2009-03-07 14:53 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-03-07 18:21 ` K.Prasad
2009-03-08 10:09 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-03-08 11:00 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2009-03-10 12:21 ` K.Prasad
2009-03-10 19:55 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2009-03-09 21:36 ` K.Prasad
[not found] <20090407063058.301701787@prasadkr_t60p.in.ibm.com>
2009-04-07 6:36 ` [Patch 09/11] Cleanup HW Breakpoint registers before kexec K.Prasad
[not found] <20090324152028.754123712@K.Prasad>
2009-03-24 15:27 ` K.Prasad
[not found] <20090319234044.410725944@K.Prasad>
2009-03-19 23:49 ` K.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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