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| author |   K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2009-06-01 23:47:06 +0530 |
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| committer |   Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> | 2009-06-02 22:47:00 +0200 |
| commit | 62edab9056a6cf0c9207339c8892c923a5217e45 (patch) | |
| tree | 2becd775fdc2a25df3daacf69d80685b251fbed9 /arch/x86/mm/kmmio.c | |
| parent | hw-breakpoints: ftrace plugin for kernel symbol tracing using HW Breakpoint interfaces (diff) | |
| download | linux-dev-62edab9056a6cf0c9207339c8892c923a5217e45.tar.xz linux-dev-62edab9056a6cf0c9207339c8892c923a5217e45.zip | |
hw-breakpoints: reset bits in dr6 after the corresponding exception is handled
This patch resets the bit in dr6 after the corresponding exception is
handled in code, so that we keep a clean track of the current virtual debug
status register.
[ Impact: keep track of breakpoints triggering completion ]
Signed-off-by: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/mm/kmmio.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/mm/kmmio.c | 8 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/kmmio.c b/arch/x86/mm/kmmio.c index 16ccbd77917f..11a4ad4d6253 100644 --- a/arch/x86/mm/kmmio.c +++ b/arch/x86/mm/kmmio.c @@ -540,8 +540,14 @@ kmmio_die_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb, unsigned long val, void *args) struct die_args *arg = args; if (val == DIE_DEBUG && (arg->err & DR_STEP)) - if (post_kmmio_handler(arg->err, arg->regs) == 1) + if (post_kmmio_handler(arg->err, arg->regs) == 1) { + /* + * Reset the BS bit in dr6 (pointed by args->err) to + * denote completion of processing + */ + (*(unsigned long *)ERR_PTR(arg->err)) &= ~DR_STEP; return NOTIFY_STOP; + } return NOTIFY_DONE; } |