Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] kprobes/powerpc: Do not disable External interrupts during single step

From: "Suzuki K. Poulose" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2012 11:18:32 +0530

On 12/03/2012 08:37 PM, Suzuki K. Poulose wrote:
> From: Suzuki K. Poulose <[email-masked]>
>
> External/Decrement exceptions have lower priority than the Debug Exception.
> So, we don't have to disable the External interrupts before a single step.
> However, on BookE, Critical Input Exception(CE) has higher priority than a
> Debug Exception. Hence we mask them.
>
> Signed-off-by: 	Suzuki K. Poulose <[email-masked]>
> Cc:		Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <[email-masked]>
> Cc:		Ananth N Mavinakaynahalli <[email-masked]>
> Cc:		Kumar Gala <[email-masked]>
> Cc:		[email-masked]
> ---
>   arch/powerpc/kernel/kprobes.c |   10 +++++-----
>   1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/kprobes.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/kprobes.c
> index e88c643..4901b34 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/kprobes.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/kprobes.c
> @@ -104,13 +104,13 @@ void __kprobes arch_remove_kprobe(struct kprobe *p)
>
>   static void __kprobes prepare_singlestep(struct kprobe *p, struct pt_regs *regs)
>   {
> -	/* We turn off async exceptions to ensure that the single step will
> -	 * be for the instruction we have the kprobe on, if we dont its
> -	 * possible we'd get the single step reported for an exception handler
> -	 * like Decrementer or External Interrupt */
> -	regs->msr &= ~MSR_EE;
>   	regs->msr |= MSR_SINGLESTEP;
>   #ifdef CONFIG_PPC_ADV_DEBUG_REGS
> +	/*
> +	 * We turn off Critical Input Exception(CE) to ensure that the single
> +	 * step will be for the instruction we have the probe on; if we don't,
> +	 * it is possible we'd get the single step reported for CE.
> +	 */
>   	regs->msr &= ~MSR_CE;
>   	mtspr(SPRN_DBCR0, mfspr(SPRN_DBCR0) | DBCR0_IC | DBCR0_IDM);
>   #ifdef CONFIG_PPC_47x
>

Ben, Kumar,

Could you please review this patch ?

Thanks
Suzuki