Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758860AbYLDTRh (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Dec 2008 14:17:37 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752600AbYLDTRZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Dec 2008 14:17:25 -0500 Received: from E23SMTP04.au.ibm.com ([202.81.18.173]:54338 "EHLO e23smtp04.au.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751463AbYLDTRX (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Dec 2008 14:17:23 -0500 Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2008 00:47:15 +0530 From: "K.Prasad" To: Linux Kernel Mailing List Cc: Alan Stern , Roland McGrath , akpm@linux-foundation.org, mingo@elte.hu, richardj_moore@uk.ibm.com Subject: [RFC Patch 9/9] Cleanup HW Breakpoint registers before kexec Message-ID: <20081204191715.GI20563@in.ibm.com> Reply-To: prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com References: <20081204190804.GA15134@in.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20081204190804.GA15134@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: 2102 Lines: 54 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-2.6.28-rc5-bkpt-latest/arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_32.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.28-rc5-bkpt-latest.orig/arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_32.c +++ linux-2.6.28-rc5-bkpt-latest/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-2.6.28-rc5-bkpt-latest/arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.28-rc5-bkpt-latest.orig/arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c +++ linux-2.6.28-rc5-bkpt-latest/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/