linux-kernel - Re: [Patch 1/2] Improvements and minor fixes to HW Breakpoint interface

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Date:	Wed, 20 May 2009 13:53:46 -0400 (EDT)
From:	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
To:	"K.Prasad" <prasad@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
cc:	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Subject: Re: [Patch 1/2] Improvements and minor fixes to HW Breakpoint
 interface

On Wed, 20 May 2009, K.Prasad wrote:

> Thanks. I am pasting the hw_breakpoint_handler() function completely
> below (as opposed to patch form which may be difficult to follow). Upon
> your consent with the changes, I intend to send a consolidated patchset
> to Ingo (merging the patches over hw_breakpoint.c) for inclusion in -tip
> tree.
> 
> I have also moved the "(*dr6_p) &= ~(DR_TRAP0 << i)" before the "if (!bp)"
> check.
> 
> /*
>  * Handle debug exception notifications.
>  *
>  * Return value is either NOTIFY_STOP or NOTIFY_DONE as explained below.
>  *
>  * NOTIFY_DONE returned if one of the following conditions is true.
>  * i) When the causative address is from user-space and the exception
>  * is a valid one, i.e. not triggered as a result of lazy debug register
>  * switching
>  * ii) When there are more bits than trap<n> set in DR6 register (such
>  * as BD, BS or BT) indicating that more than one debug condition is
>  * met and requires some more action in do_debug().
>  *
>  * NOTIFY_STOP returned for all other cases
>  *
>  */
> int __kprobes hw_breakpoint_handler(struct die_args *args)
> {
> 	int i, cpu, rc = NOTIFY_STOP;
> 	struct hw_breakpoint *bp;
> 	unsigned long dr7, dr6;
> 	unsigned long *dr6_p;
> 
> 	/* The DR6 value is pointed by args->err */
> 	dr6_p = (unsigned long *)ERR_PTR(args->err);
> 	dr6 = *dr6_p;
> 
> 	/* Do an early return if no trap bits are set in DR6 */
> 	if ((dr6 & DR_TRAP_BITS) == 0)
> 		return NOTIFY_DONE;
> 
> 	/* Lazy debug register switching */
> 	if (!test_tsk_thread_flag(current, TIF_DEBUG))
> 		arch_uninstall_thread_hw_breakpoint();
> 
> 	get_debugreg(dr7, 7);
> 	/* Disable breakpoints during exception handling */
> 	set_debugreg(0UL, 7);
> 	/*
> 	 * Assert that local interrupts are disabled
> 	 * Reset the DRn bits in the virtualized register value.
> 	 * The ptrace trigger routine will add in whatever is needed.
> 	 */
> 	current->thread.debugreg6 &= ~DR_TRAP_BITS;
> 	cpu = get_cpu();
> 
> 	/* Handle all the breakpoints that were triggered */
> 	for (i = 0; i < HBP_NUM; ++i) {
> 		if (likely(!(dr6 & (DR_TRAP0 << i))))
> 			continue;
> 		/*
> 		 * Find the corresponding hw_breakpoint structure and
> 		 * invoke its triggered callback.
> 		 */
> 		if (i >= hbp_kernel_pos)
> 			bp = per_cpu(this_hbp_kernel[i], cpu);
> 		else {
> 			bp = current->thread.hbp[i];
> 			if (bp)
> 				rc = NOTIFY_DONE;
> 		}
> 
> 		/*
> 		 * Reset the 'i'th TRAP bit in dr6 to denote completion of
> 		 * exception handling
> 		 */
> 		(*dr6_p) &= ~(DR_TRAP0 << i);
> 		/*
> 		 * bp can be NULL due to lazy debug register switching
> 		 * or due to the delay between updates of hbp_kernel_pos
> 		 * and this_hbp_kernel.
> 		 */
> 		if (!bp)
> 			continue;
> 
> 		(bp->triggered)(bp, args->regs);
> 	}
> 	if (dr6 & (~DR_TRAP_BITS))
> 		rc = NOTIFY_DONE;
> 
> 	set_debugreg(dr7, 7);
> 	put_cpu_no_resched();
> 	return rc;
> }

This looks okay.

Alan Stern

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