linux/arch
Michael Ellerman a2ceff5e55 [POWERPC] Fix missed hardware breakpoints across multiple threads
There is a bug in the powerpc DABR (data access breakpoint) handling,
which can result in us missing breakpoints if several threads are trying
to break on the same address.

The circumstances are that do_page_fault() calls do_dabr(), this clears
the DABR (sets it to 0) and sets up the signal which will report to
userspace that the DABR was hit. The do_signal() code will restore the DABR
value on the way out to userspace.

If we reschedule before calling do_signal(), __switch_to() will check the
cached DABR value and compare it to the new thread's value, if they match
we don't set the DABR in hardware.

So if two threads have the same DABR value, and we schedule from one to
the other after taking the interrupt for the first thread hitting the DABR,
the second thread will run without the DABR set in hardware.

The cleanest fix is to move the cache update into set_dabr(), that way we
can't forget to do it.

Reported-by: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-03-28 22:51:02 +11:00
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alpha alpha: use iommu_is_span_boundary helper function 2008-03-13 13:11:43 -07:00
arm Merge branch 'omap-fixes' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tmlind/linux-omap-2.6 into m 2008-03-20 15:59:51 +00:00
avr32 avr32: Fix OCD refcounting bug 2008-02-27 14:23:53 +01:00
blackfin [Blackfin] arch: fix atomic and32/xor32 comments and ENDPROC markings 2008-03-03 17:44:14 -07:00
cris cris: correct usage of __user for copy to and from user space in lib/usercopy and uaccess.h 2008-03-04 16:35:16 -08:00
frv FRV: Change the timerfd syscalls to be the same as i386 2008-02-20 19:58:16 -08:00
h8300 h8300: defconfig update 2008-02-23 17:12:16 -08:00
ia64 [IA64] kprobes arch consolidation build fix 2008-03-06 09:49:01 -08:00
m32r ide: introduce HAVE_IDE 2008-02-09 10:46:40 +01:00
m68k m68k{,nommu}: Wire up new timerfd syscalls 2008-03-04 08:04:11 -08:00
m68knommu m68k{,nommu}: Wire up new timerfd syscalls 2008-03-04 08:04:11 -08:00
mips [MIPS] Clocksource: Only install r4k counter as clocksource if present. 2008-03-12 14:14:42 +00:00
mn10300 MN10300: define HZ as a config option 2008-02-23 17:12:13 -08:00
parisc [PARISC] head.S: section mismatch fixes 2008-03-15 19:12:22 -07:00
powerpc [POWERPC] Fix missed hardware breakpoints across multiple threads 2008-03-28 22:51:02 +11:00
ppc [PPC] 8xx: swap bug-fix 2008-03-07 16:56:54 -06:00
s390 [S390] futex: let futex_atomic_cmpxchg_pt survive early functional tests. 2008-03-20 17:33:46 +01:00
sh sh: Use relative paths for mach/cpu symlinks. 2008-03-21 12:22:01 +09:00
sparc Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6 2008-03-17 23:44:31 -07:00
sparc64 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6 2008-03-24 13:08:01 -07:00
um sched: add declaration of sched_tail to sched.h 2008-02-25 16:34:17 +01:00
v850 ide: introduce HAVE_IDE 2008-02-09 10:46:40 +01:00
x86 x86-32: Pass the full resource data to ioremap() 2008-03-24 11:22:39 -07:00
xtensa [XTENSA] Allow debugger to modify the WINDOWBASE register. 2008-02-13 17:45:36 -08:00
.gitignore arch: Ignore arch/i386 and arch/x86_64 2008-01-19 21:29:39 -08:00
Kconfig Kprobes: indicate kretprobe support in Kconfig 2008-03-04 16:35:11 -08:00