x86/hw-breakpoints: Don't lose GE flag while disabling a breakpoint
authorFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Thu, 26 Nov 2009 05:04:38 +0000 (06:04 +0100)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Thu, 26 Nov 2009 08:29:22 +0000 (09:29 +0100)
When we schedule out a breakpoint from the cpu, we also
incidentally remove the "Global exact breakpoint" flag from the
breakpoint control register. It makes us losing the fine grained
precision about the origin of the instructions that may trigger
breakpoint exceptions for the other breakpoints running in this
cpu.

Reported-by: Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1259211878-6013-1-git-send-regression-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
arch/x86/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c

index 92ea5aad0b5cd484ba2a7bfa6a323e3508bff911..d42f65ac492766ecaeb60944b4ae573f5bf6f0bf 100644 (file)
@@ -59,21 +59,27 @@ static DEFINE_PER_CPU(unsigned long, cpu_debugreg[HBP_NUM]);
 static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct perf_event *, bp_per_reg[HBP_NUM]);
 
 
-/*
- * Encode the length, type, Exact, and Enable bits for a particular breakpoint
- * as stored in debug register 7.
- */
-unsigned long encode_dr7(int drnum, unsigned int len, unsigned int type)
+static inline unsigned long
+__encode_dr7(int drnum, unsigned int len, unsigned int type)
 {
        unsigned long bp_info;
 
        bp_info = (len | type) & 0xf;
        bp_info <<= (DR_CONTROL_SHIFT + drnum * DR_CONTROL_SIZE);
-       bp_info |= (DR_GLOBAL_ENABLE << (drnum * DR_ENABLE_SIZE)) |
-                               DR_GLOBAL_SLOWDOWN;
+       bp_info |= (DR_GLOBAL_ENABLE << (drnum * DR_ENABLE_SIZE));
+
        return bp_info;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Encode the length, type, Exact, and Enable bits for a particular breakpoint
+ * as stored in debug register 7.
+ */
+unsigned long encode_dr7(int drnum, unsigned int len, unsigned int type)
+{
+       return __encode_dr7(drnum, len, type) | DR_GLOBAL_SLOWDOWN;
+}
+
 /*
  * Decode the length and type bits for a particular breakpoint as
  * stored in debug register 7.  Return the "enabled" status.
@@ -154,7 +160,7 @@ void arch_uninstall_hw_breakpoint(struct perf_event *bp)
                return;
 
        dr7 = &__get_cpu_var(cpu_dr7);
-       *dr7 &= ~encode_dr7(i, info->len, info->type);
+       *dr7 &= ~__encode_dr7(i, info->len, info->type);
 
        set_debugreg(*dr7, 7);
 }