kernel-ark/arch
Andi Kleen daeeafecf0 [PATCH] x86_64: Keep only a single debug notifier chain
Calling a notifier three times in the debug handler does not make much sense,
because a debugger can figure out the various conditions by itself.  Remove
the additional calls to DIE_DEBUG and DIE_DEBUGSTEP completely.

This matches what i386 does now.

This also makes sure interrupts are always still disabled when calling a
debugger, which prevents:

BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible [00000001] code: tpopf/1470
caller is post_kprobe_handler+0x9/0x70

Call Trace:<ffffffff8024f10f>{smp_processor_id+191} <ffffffff80120e69>{post_kpro
be_handler+9} 
<ffffffff80120f7a>{kprobe_exceptions_notify+58} 
<ffffffff80144fc0>{notifier_call_chain+32} <ffffffff80110daf>{do_debug+335} 
<ffffffff8010f513>{debug+127}  <EOE> 

on preemptible debug kernels with kprobes when single stepping in user space.

This was probably a bug even on non preempt kernels, this function was
supposed to be running with interrupts off according to a comment there.

Note to third part debugger maintainers: please double check your debugger can
still single step.

Cc: <prasanna@in.ibm.com>
Cc: <jbeulich@novell.com>
Cc: <kaos@sgi.com>
Cc: <jim.houston@ccur.com>
Cc: <jfv@bluesong.net>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-16 15:25:13 -07:00
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arm [PATCH] arm: add comment about max_low_pfn/max_pfn 2005-04-16 15:23:57 -07:00
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i386 [PATCH] x86_64-always-use-cpuid-80000008-to-figure-out-mtrr fix 2005-04-16 15:25:11 -07:00
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mips [PATCH] mips: remove #include <linux/audit.h> two times 2005-04-16 15:24:41 -07:00
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ppc [PATCH] ppc64: very basic desktop g5 sound support 2005-04-16 15:24:32 -07:00
ppc64 [PATCH] ppc64: remove -fno-omit-frame-pointer 2005-04-16 15:24:37 -07:00
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x86_64 [PATCH] x86_64: Keep only a single debug notifier chain 2005-04-16 15:25:13 -07:00