Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758318AbZAVOKf (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Jan 2009 09:10:35 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754866AbZAVOKZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Jan 2009 09:10:25 -0500 Received: from e28smtp01.in.ibm.com ([59.145.155.1]:36642 "EHLO e28smtp01.in.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753459AbZAVOKY (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Jan 2009 09:10:24 -0500 Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 19:40:19 +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 9/10] Cleanup HW Breakpoint registers before kexec Message-ID: <20090122141019.GH19592@in.ibm.com> Reply-To: prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com References: <20090122135640.GA11161@in.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090122135640.GA11161@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: 2018 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-hbkpt-lkml-29-rc2/arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_32.c =================================================================== --- linux-hbkpt-lkml-29-rc2.orig/arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_32.c +++ linux-hbkpt-lkml-29-rc2/arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_32.c @@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ #include #include #include +#include static void set_idt(void *newidt, __u16 limit) { @@ -202,6 +203,7 @@ 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-hbkpt-lkml-29-rc2/arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c =================================================================== --- linux-hbkpt-lkml-29-rc2.orig/arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c +++ linux-hbkpt-lkml-29-rc2/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/