linux-kernel - Re: x86: do_debug && PTRACE_SINGLESTEP broken by 08d68323d1f0c34452e614263b212ca556dae47f

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Message-ID: <20091218231545.GA8803@nowhere>
Date:	Sat, 19 Dec 2009 00:15:47 +0100
From:	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
To:	Roland McGrath <roland@...hat.com>,
	Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@...mens.com>,
	Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>
Cc:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
	"K.Prasad" <prasad@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	utrace-devel@...hat.com
Subject: Re: x86: do_debug && PTRACE_SINGLESTEP broken by
	08d68323d1f0c34452e614263b212ca556dae47f

On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 12:05:03PM -0800, Roland McGrath wrote:
> > Please find the trivial test-case below. It hangs, because
> > PTRACE_SINGLESTEP doesn't trigger the trap.
> 
> 2.6.33-rc1 x86-64 works for me with either -m64 or -m32 version of that test.
> 
> > (not sure this matters, but I did the testing under kvm)
> 
> Apparently it does.  You should hack some printks into do_debug() and see
> how kvm is differing from real hardware.  (Actually you can probably do
> this with a notifier added by a module, not that you are shy about
> recompiling!)  
> 
> Probably kvm's emulation of the hardware behavior wrt the DR6 bits is not
> sufficiently faithful.  Conceivably, kvm is being consistent with some
> older hardware and we have encoded assumptions that only newer hardware
> meets.  But I'd guess it's just a plain kvm bug.


It looks like in kvm, before entering the guest, we restore its
debug registers:

vcpu_enter_guest():
	if (unlikely(vcpu->arch.switch_db_regs)) {
		set_debugreg(0, 7);
		set_debugreg(vcpu->arch.eff_db[0], 0);
		set_debugreg(vcpu->arch.eff_db[1], 1);
		set_debugreg(vcpu->arch.eff_db[2], 2);
		set_debugreg(vcpu->arch.eff_db[3], 3);
	}


But what happens to dr6, I don't know.

Adding Avi and Jan in Cc.

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