Re: Regression in 2.6.36 in single stepping over hardware breakpoint(Wine)

[Michael Stefaniuc]

Sorry, forgot to say that I have opened
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21332 for this regression.

On 10/28/2010 02:12 AM, Michael Stefaniuc wrote:
> there is a regression between 2.6.35 and 2.6.36 for 32bit Wine in the
> Wine test checking the single stepping over hardware breakpoints:
> /home/michi/work/wine/tools/runtest -q -P wine -M ntdll.dll -T ../../..
> -p ntdll_test.exe.so /home/michi/work/wine/dlls/ntdll/tests/exception.c
> && touch exception.ok
> exception.c:585: Test failed: eip is wrong: 340002 instead of 340001
> exception.c:587: Test failed: B0 flag is not set in Dr6
> exception.c:588: Test failed: BS flag is set in Dr6
> exception.c:593: Test failed: eip is wrong: 7ed569d3 instead of 340002
> make: *** [exception.ok] Error 4
>
> All those tests are in bpx_handler()
> http://source.winehq.org/git/wine.git/?a=blob;f=dlls/ntdll/tests/exception.c;h=701b6bba091dddce724075dc41dd2ab407f28ac4;hb=HEAD#l559
>
>
> A regression test gives:
> 0c4519e825c9e2b6a8310deff8582f8c35bfbba9 is the first bad commit
> commit 0c4519e825c9e2b6a8310deff8582f8c35bfbba9
> Author: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Thu Jun 24 21:21:27 2010 +0200
>
> x86: Set resume bit before returning from breakpoint exception
>
> Instruction breakpoints trigger before the instruction executes,
> and returning back from the breakpoint handler brings us again
> to the instruction that breakpointed. This naturally bring to
> a breakpoint recursion.
>
> To solve this, x86 has the Resume Bit trick. When the cpu flags
> have the RF flag set, the next instruction won't trigger any
> instruction breakpoint, and once this instruction is executed,
> RF is cleared back.
>
> This let's us jump back to the instruction that triggered the
> breakpoint without recursion.
>
> Use this when an instruction breakpoint triggers.
>
> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Prasad <prasad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> :040000 040000 2eae1fa5f90b141d60fe28a971a618e9c0b1a232
> e27fd94a1beb10e3688d555bd74c888b6a310293 M arch
>
> Reverting this patch on top of 2.6.36 makes the problem go away.
>
> The problem is 100% reproducible and I see it in 32bit Wine on both
> 32bit and 64bit Linux. The regression might affect also 64bit Wine but
> those exception tests aren't compiled for 64bit Wine due to the lack of
> compiler support for win64 exceptions; so we cannot test it.
>
>
> Steps to reproduce:
> -------------------
> Any Wine version wine-1.2 or newer will do (either a tarball from
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/wine/files/Source/ or from git
> git clone git://source.winehq.org/git/wine.git
> ./configure
> make
> cd dlls/ntdll/tests/
> make exception.ok
>
> Test results: The above errors on lines 585, 587, 588, 593 should not show
> up. Additionally there should be no error in line 665 as that means the
> tests
> didn't run (there was a temporary regression in the 2.6.36-rc phase that
> produced the test failed on line 665; the patch from commit 89e45aac42d4
> was needed at each bisection point).
>
>
> For 32bit Wine builds on a x86_64 machine a pretty complete 32bit setup
> is needed too, but configure will let one know. If configure doesn't
> errors out but produces warnings, those can be safely ignored. It means
> the dependencies are optional and those aren't needed to reproduce this
> bug. http://wiki.winehq.org/WineOn64bit has a lot more info on setting
> this up.

bye
    michael
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