Re: [RFC] mmiotrace full patch, preview 2

From: Vegard Nossum
Date: Thu Mar 27 2008 - 19:14:01 EST


Hi,

I may of course be wrong, but... Shouldn't the post_kmmio_handler(),
called from the die notifier chain, check for the DR_STEP condition?
This makes sure that the function is not called in the cases where the
source of the debug exception was not a single-stepping event. Though
I guess you'll also have other checks in place to notice that the
interrupt was not the one you were expecting. I guess a little extra
safety won't hurt though?

On Sun, Mar 9, 2008 at 3:40 PM, Pekka Paalanen <pq@xxxxxx> wrote:
> +/*
> + * Interrupts are disabled on entry as trap1 is an interrupt gate
> + * and they remain disabled thorough out this function.
> + * This must always get called as the pair to kmmio_handler().
> + */
> +static int post_kmmio_handler(unsigned long condition, struct pt_regs *regs)
> +{
> + int ret = 0;
> + struct kmmio_context *ctx = &get_cpu_var(kmmio_ctx);

if (!(condition & DR_STEP))
return;


Vegard
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