From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] x86: make DR*_RESERVED unsigned long Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2013 09:20:28 -0700 Message-ID: <021d338d-74c4-4c2b-960e-8d9cf78b4141@email.android.com> References: <20130424072630.GB1780@gmail.com> <20130424170702.GA1867@redhat.com> <5178282D.9030902@zytor.com> <20130425144818.GA25921@redhat.com> <20130426163802.GA30351@redhat.com> <517AAED5.7040400@zytor.com> <20130426171526.GA30875@redhat.com> <20130427144537.GA24256@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: Ingo Molnar , Linus Torvalds , Cyrill Gorcunov , Peter Zijlstra , Thomas Gleixner , David Miller , "Theodore Ts'o" , Linux Kernel Mailing List , the arch/x86 maintainers , Network Development , "linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org" , Fr??d??ric Weisbecker To: Oleg Nesterov Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20130427144537.GA24256@redhat.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ext4.vger.kernel.org I don't know why this is uapi... finest make a lot of sense to me. Oleg Nesterov wrote: >On 04/26, Oleg Nesterov wrote: > >> On 04/26, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> > >> > On 04/26/2013 09:38 AM, Oleg Nesterov wrote: >> > > >> > > - do_debug: >> > > >> > > dr6 &= ~DR6_RESERVED; >> > > >> > > this also wrongly clears 32-63 bits. Fortunately these >> > > bits are reserved and must be zero. >> > >> > I don't think this is wrongly at all. >> >> OK, I meant that it also clears the bits that are not specified in >> DR6_RESERVED mask. >> >> > The whole point is to mask out >> > the bits that the handler doesn't want to deal with, so masking out >the >> > reserved bits [63:32] seems reasonable to me. >> >> Then we should do >> >> - #define DR6_RESERVED 0xFFFF0FF0 >> + #define DR6_RESERVED 0xFFFFFFFFFFFF0FF0 >> >> ? >> >> or what? (just in case, I will happily agree with "do nothing" ;) > >Or we can do the s/reserved/mask/ change and avoid any "unexpected" >effect of "long &= ~int". This allso allows to kill ifdef(__i386__). > >But this is include/uapi, I do not know if I can simply remove the >old define's. > >In short: whatever you prefer, including "leave it alone". > >Oleg. > >diff --git a/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/debugreg.h >b/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/debugreg.h >index 3c0874d..2678b23 100644 >--- a/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/debugreg.h >+++ b/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/debugreg.h >@@ -14,8 +14,7 @@ > which debugging register was responsible for the trap. The other bits > are either reserved or not of interest to us. */ > >-/* Define reserved bits in DR6 which are always set to 1 */ >-#define DR6_RESERVED (0xFFFF0FF0) >+#define DR6_MASK (0xF00FU) /* Everything else is reserved */ > > #define DR_TRAP0 (0x1) /* db0 */ > #define DR_TRAP1 (0x2) /* db1 */ >@@ -32,6 +31,8 @@ > and indicates what types of access we trap on, and how large the data > field is that we are looking at */ > >+#define DR_CONTROL_MASK (0xFFFF03FFU) /* Everything else is reserved >*/ >+ > #define DR_CONTROL_SHIFT 16 /* Skip this many bits in ctl register */ > #define DR_CONTROL_SIZE 4 /* 4 control bits per register */ > >@@ -64,12 +65,6 @@ > We can slow the instruction pipeline for instructions coming via the >gdt or the ldt if we want to. I am not sure why this is an advantage >*/ > >-#ifdef __i386__ >-#define DR_CONTROL_RESERVED (0xFC00) /* Reserved by Intel */ >-#else >-#define DR_CONTROL_RESERVED (0xFFFFFFFF0000FC00UL) /* Reserved */ >-#endif >- > #define DR_LOCAL_SLOWDOWN (0x100) /* Local slow the pipeline */ > #define DR_GLOBAL_SLOWDOWN (0x200) /* Global slow the pipeline */ > >diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c b/arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c >index 7461f50..bc5fb98 100644 >--- a/arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c >+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c >@@ -657,7 +657,7 @@ static int ptrace_write_dr7(struct task_struct >*tsk, unsigned long data) > bool second_pass = false; > int i, rc, ret = 0; > >- data &= ~DR_CONTROL_RESERVED; >+ data &= DR_CONTROL_MASK; > old_dr7 = ptrace_get_dr7(thread->ptrace_bps); > > restore: >diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c b/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c >index 68bda7a..42a635f 100644 >--- a/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c >+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c >@@ -402,7 +402,7 @@ dotraplinkage void __kprobes do_debug(struct >pt_regs *regs, long error_code) > get_debugreg(dr6, 6); > > /* Filter out all the reserved bits which are preset to 1 */ >- dr6 &= ~DR6_RESERVED; >+ dr6 &= DR6_MASK; > > /* > * If dr6 has no reason to give us about the origin of this trap, -- Sent from my mobile phone. Please excuse brevity and lack of formatting.