[PATCH] x86_64: Move int 3 handler to debug stack and allow to increase it.

This
- switches the INT3 handler to run on an IST stack (to cope with
  breakpoints set by a kernel debugger on places where the kernel's
  %gs base hasn't been set up, yet); the IST stack used is shared with
  the INT1 handler's
[AK: this also allows setting a kprobe on the interrupt/exception entry
points]
- allows nesting of INT1/INT3 handlers so that one can, with a kernel
  debugger, debug (at least) the user-mode portions of the INT1/INT3
  handling; the nesting isn't actively enabled here since a kernel-
  debugger-free kernel doesn't need it

Signed-Off-By: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/asm-x86_64/desc.h b/include/asm-x86_64/desc.h
index 3376486..5ce0e34 100644
--- a/include/asm-x86_64/desc.h
+++ b/include/asm-x86_64/desc.h
@@ -114,6 +114,11 @@ static inline void set_system_gate(int nr, void *func)
 	_set_gate(&idt_table[nr], GATE_INTERRUPT, (unsigned long) func, 3, 0); 
 } 
 
+static inline void set_system_gate_ist(int nr, void *func, unsigned ist)
+{
+	_set_gate(&idt_table[nr], GATE_INTERRUPT, (unsigned long) func, 3, ist);
+}
+
 static inline void set_tssldt_descriptor(void *ptr, unsigned long tss, unsigned type, 
 					 unsigned size) 
 {