KGDB: make kgdb_breakpoint() as noinline
authorVijaya Kumar K <Vijaya.Kumar@caviumnetworks.com>
Tue, 28 Jan 2014 11:20:20 +0000 (16:50 +0530)
committerCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Wed, 26 Feb 2014 11:16:25 +0000 (11:16 +0000)
The function kgdb_breakpoint() sets up break point at
compile time by calling arch_kgdb_breakpoint();
Though this call is surrounded by wmb() barrier,
the compile can still re-order the break point,
because this scheduling barrier is not a code motion
barrier in gcc.

Making kgdb_breakpoint() as noinline solves this problem
of code reording around break point instruction and also
avoids problem of being called as inline function from
other places

More details about discussion on this can be found here
http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ports.arm.kernel/269732

Signed-off-by: Vijaya Kumar K <Vijaya.Kumar@caviumnetworks.com>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Acked-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
kernel/debug/debug_core.c

index 334b3980ffc14d396e25ccb11644f7f038cbe6e4..99982a70ddade1f728e18bd1af020b3600c4b8a2 100644 (file)
@@ -1035,7 +1035,7 @@ int dbg_io_get_char(void)
  * otherwise as a quick means to stop program execution and "break" into
  * the debugger.
  */
-void kgdb_breakpoint(void)
+noinline void kgdb_breakpoint(void)
 {
        atomic_inc(&kgdb_setting_breakpoint);
        wmb(); /* Sync point before breakpoint */