Re: [PATCH] x86: fix typo(?) in step.c

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Wed Mar 05 2008 - 08:42:28 EST



* Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> TIF_DEBUGCTLMSR has no meaning in the actual MSR...

thanks, applied. The effect of this bug is that block-stepping is not
disabled ... [~TIF_DEBUGCTLMSR masks out bit 25, while in the MSR we
want to mask out bit 1]

Roland - i guess this means block-stepping (a new ptrace feature in .25)
is not particularly well-tested. Do you have any standalone testcases
that could be run?

Ingo
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