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authorJason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>2008-09-26 10:36:41 -0500
committerJason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>2008-09-26 10:36:41 -0500
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kgdb, x86, arm, mips, powerpc: ignore user space single stepping
On the x86 arch, user space single step exceptions should be ignored if they occur in the kernel space, such as ptrace stepping through a system call. First check if it is kgdb that is executing a single step, then ensure it is not an accidental traversal into the user space, while in kgdb, any other time the TIF_SINGLESTEP is set, kgdb should ignore the exception. On x86, arm, mips and powerpc, the kgdb_contthread usage was inconsistent with the way single stepping is implemented in the kgdb core. The arch specific stub should always set the kgdb_cpu_doing_single_step correctly if it is single stepping. This allows kgdb to correctly process an instruction steps if ptrace happens to be requesting an instruction step over a system call. Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/powerpc')
-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/kernel/kgdb.c5
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/kgdb.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/kgdb.c
index b4fdf2f..fe8f71d 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/kgdb.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/kgdb.c
@@ -347,9 +347,8 @@ int kgdb_arch_handle_exception(int vector, int signo, int err_code,
linux_regs->msr |= MSR_SE;
#endif
kgdb_single_step = 1;
- if (kgdb_contthread)
- atomic_set(&kgdb_cpu_doing_single_step,
- raw_smp_processor_id());
+ atomic_set(&kgdb_cpu_doing_single_step,
+ raw_smp_processor_id());
}
return 0;
}