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authorPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>2010-03-25 14:51:51 +0100
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2010-03-26 11:33:57 +0100
commitea8e61b7bbc4a2faef77db34eb2db2a2c2372ff6 (patch)
treedf2998225dc10245ce3d392576a724ab788e456c /arch/x86/kernel/process.c
parentfaa4602e47690fb11221e00f9b9697c8dc0d4b19 (diff)
downloadlinux-ea8e61b7bbc4a2faef77db34eb2db2a2c2372ff6.tar.bz2
x86, ptrace: Fix block-step
Implement ptrace-block-step using TIF_BLOCKSTEP which will set DEBUGCTLMSR_BTF when set for a task while preserving any other DEBUGCTLMSR bits. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <20100325135414.017536066@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/process.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/process.c11
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/process.c b/arch/x86/kernel/process.c
index 1a60beb32ede..8328009416d7 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/process.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/process.c
@@ -195,6 +195,17 @@ void __switch_to_xtra(struct task_struct *prev_p, struct task_struct *next_p,
prev = &prev_p->thread;
next = &next_p->thread;
+ if (test_tsk_thread_flag(prev_p, TIF_BLOCKSTEP) ^
+ test_tsk_thread_flag(next_p, TIF_BLOCKSTEP)) {
+ unsigned long debugctl = get_debugctlmsr();
+
+ debugctl &= ~DEBUGCTLMSR_BTF;
+ if (test_tsk_thread_flag(next_p, TIF_BLOCKSTEP))
+ debugctl |= DEBUGCTLMSR_BTF;
+
+ update_debugctlmsr(debugctl);
+ }
+
if (test_tsk_thread_flag(prev_p, TIF_NOTSC) ^
test_tsk_thread_flag(next_p, TIF_NOTSC)) {
/* prev and next are different */