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Message-ID: <4AEE06FF.9080807@web.de>
Date: Sun, 01 Nov 2009 23:09:03 +0100
From: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@....de>
To: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Prasad <prasad@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...il.com>,
Li Zefan <lizf@...fujitsu.com>, Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>,
Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>,
Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...hat.com>,
Paul Mundt <lethal@...ux-sh.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/6] hw-breakpoints: Rewrite the hw-breakpoints layer
on top of perf events
Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
[...]
> @@ -94,6 +87,12 @@ static inline void hw_breakpoint_disable(void)
> set_debugreg(0UL, 3);
> }
>
> +#ifdef CONFIG_KVM
> +extern void hw_breakpoint_restore(void);
> +#else
> +static inline void hw_breakpoint_restore(void) { }
> +#endif
> +
Hmm, if this shall become a KVM-only API, why the empty wrapper?
[...]
> -void arch_flush_thread_hw_breakpoint(struct task_struct *tsk)
> +#ifdef CONFIG_KVM
> +void hw_breakpoint_restore(void)
> {
> - int i;
> - struct thread_struct *thread = &(tsk->thread);
> -
> - thread->debugreg7 = 0;
> - for (i = 0; i < HBP_NUM; i++)
> - thread->debugreg[i] = 0;
> + set_debugreg(__get_cpu_var(cpu_debugreg[0]), 0);
> + set_debugreg(__get_cpu_var(cpu_debugreg[1]), 1);
> + set_debugreg(__get_cpu_var(cpu_debugreg[2]), 2);
> + set_debugreg(__get_cpu_var(cpu_debugreg[3]), 3);
> + set_debugreg(current->thread.debugreg6, 6);
> + set_debugreg(__get_cpu_var(dr7), 7);
> }
> +#endif
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(hw_breakpoint_restore);
as KVM can be built as module.
[...]
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
> index fc2974a..32d7bca 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
> @@ -42,6 +42,7 @@
> #define CREATE_TRACE_POINTS
> #include "trace.h"
>
> +#include <asm/debugreg.h>
> #include <asm/uaccess.h>
> #include <asm/msr.h>
> #include <asm/desc.h>
> @@ -3643,14 +3644,8 @@ static int vcpu_enter_guest(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct kvm_run *kvm_run)
> trace_kvm_entry(vcpu->vcpu_id);
> kvm_x86_ops->run(vcpu, kvm_run);
>
> - if (unlikely(vcpu->arch.switch_db_regs || test_thread_flag(TIF_DEBUG))) {
> - set_debugreg(current->thread.debugreg[0], 0);
> - set_debugreg(current->thread.debugreg[1], 1);
> - set_debugreg(current->thread.debugreg[2], 2);
> - set_debugreg(current->thread.debugreg[3], 3);
> - set_debugreg(current->thread.debugreg6, 6);
> - set_debugreg(current->thread.debugreg7, 7);
> - }
> + if (unlikely(vcpu->arch.switch_db_regs || test_thread_flag(TIF_DEBUG)))
> + hw_breakpoint_restore();
TIF_DEBUG is only set on active ptrace hw-breakpoints, thus we miss
other types here, right? (Note: arch.switch_db_regs is guest-related,
thus does not help in this regard.)
Jan
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