Re: [PATCH] kgdb: more barrier in blank weak function

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Sat Dec 27 2008 - 03:19:16 EST



* Yinghai Lu <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Impact: fix panic possible panic etc
>
> some compiler seems to inline the weak global function if no line in it

> kgdb_post_primary_code(struct pt_regs *regs, int e_vector, int err_code)
> {
> - return;
> + barrier();
> }

> void __weak kgdb_disable_hw_debug(struct pt_regs *regs)
> {
> + barrier();
> }

seems like the barrier() is not enough - the only safe sequence seems to
be to turn it into a function that returns an integer.

Ingo
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