Re: Dealing with the NMI mess

From: Willy Tarreau
Date: Fri Jul 24 2015 - 11:34:47 EST


On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 05:30:54PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 05:26:37PM +0200, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> > >
> > > The point is, if we trigger a #DB on an instruction breakpoint
> > > while !IF, then we simply disable that breakpoint and do the RET.
> >
> > Yes but the breakpoint remains disabled then. Or I'm missing
> > something.
>
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=143773601130974
>
> We re-enable before going back to userspace.

Ah OK thanks Peter. I'm sorry if I'm adding more noise than
anything here, it's hard to follow and it becomes a bit complex.

Willy

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