Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756169AbYJHT12 (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Oct 2008 15:27:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755279AbYJHT1P (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Oct 2008 15:27:15 -0400 Received: from E23SMTP01.au.ibm.com ([202.81.18.162]:56906 "EHLO e23smtp01.au.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754718AbYJHT1O (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Oct 2008 15:27:14 -0400 Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2008 00:57:00 +0530 From: "K.Prasad" To: Linux Kernel Mailing List Cc: Alan Stern , Roland McGrath , akpm@linux-foundation.org, mingo@elte.hu, jason.wessel@windriver.com, avi@qumranet.com, richardj_moore@uk.ibm.com Subject: [RFC Patch 9/9] Cleanup HW Breakpoint registers before kexec Message-ID: <20081008192700.GI4989@in.ibm.com> Reply-To: prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com References: <20081008192044.GA4510@in.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20081008192044.GA4510@in.ibm.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2067 Lines: 55 This patch disables Hardware breakpoints before doing a 'kexec' on the machine. Signed-off-by: K.Prasad Signed-off-by: Alan Stern --- arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_32.c | 2 ++ arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c | 2 ++ 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+) Index: linux-bkpt-lkml-27-rc9/arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_32.c =================================================================== --- linux-bkpt-lkml-27-rc9.orig/arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_32.c +++ linux-bkpt-lkml-27-rc9/arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_32.c @@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ #include #include #include +#include #define PAGE_ALIGNED __attribute__ ((__aligned__(PAGE_SIZE))) static u32 kexec_pgd[1024] PAGE_ALIGNED; @@ -131,6 +132,7 @@ void machine_kexec(struct kimage *image) /* Interrupts aren't acceptable while we reboot */ local_irq_disable(); + disable_debug_registers(); if (image->preserve_context) { #ifdef CONFIG_X86_IO_APIC Index: linux-bkpt-lkml-27-rc9/arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c =================================================================== --- linux-bkpt-lkml-27-rc9.orig/arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c +++ linux-bkpt-lkml-27-rc9/arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c @@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ #include #include #include +#include #define PAGE_ALIGNED __attribute__ ((__aligned__(PAGE_SIZE))) static u64 kexec_pgd[512] PAGE_ALIGNED; @@ -190,6 +191,7 @@ void machine_kexec(struct kimage *image) /* Interrupts aren't acceptable while we reboot */ local_irq_disable(); + disable_debug_registers(); control_page = page_address(image->control_code_page) + PAGE_SIZE; memcpy(control_page, relocate_kernel, PAGE_SIZE); -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/