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Message-ID: <20090122140850.GF19592@in.ibm.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 19:38:50 +0530
From: "K.Prasad" <prasad@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>,
Roland McGrath <roland@...hat.com>, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
mingo@...e.hu, richardj_moore@...ibm.com
Subject: [RFC Patch 7/10] Modify signal handling code to refrain from
re-enabling HW Breakpoints
This patch disables re-enabling of Hardware Breakpoint registers through
the signal handling code. This is now done during hw_breakpoint_handler().
Signed-off-by: K.Prasad <prasad@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
---
arch/x86/kernel/signal.c | 9 ---------
1 file changed, 9 deletions(-)
Index: linux-hbkpt-lkml-29-rc2/arch/x86/kernel/signal.c
===================================================================
--- linux-hbkpt-lkml-29-rc2.orig/arch/x86/kernel/signal.c
+++ linux-hbkpt-lkml-29-rc2/arch/x86/kernel/signal.c
@@ -814,15 +814,6 @@ static void do_signal(struct pt_regs *re
signr = get_signal_to_deliver(&info, &ka, regs, NULL);
if (signr > 0) {
- /*
- * Re-enable any watchpoints before delivering the
- * signal to user space. The processor register will
- * have been cleared if the watchpoint triggered
- * inside the kernel.
- */
- if (current->thread.debugreg7)
- set_debugreg(current->thread.debugreg7, 7);
-
/* Whee! Actually deliver the signal. */
if (handle_signal(signr, &info, &ka, oldset, regs) == 0) {
/*
--
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