Re: x86: Hardware breakpoints are not always triggered

[Oleg Nesterov]

On 01/28, Andrey Wagin wrote:
>
> We use hardware breakpoints in CRIU and we found that sometimes we set
> a break-point, but a process doesn't stop on it.

reproduced, and this certainly looks like kvm bug to me.

> The reproducer uses a different break-point address if it is executed
> with arguments than when it executed without arguments.

IOW, multiple processes running in parallel use the same debug register db0
but different address. And it seems that set_debugreg(address, 0) sometime
doesn't work in the guest kernel.

I think I verified the following:

	- debug registers look always correct as it seen by the guest.
	  I used get_debugreg() to dump them after the task misses bp.

	- do_debug() was not called in this case.

	- finally, it seems that the host has the wrong value in db0
	  set by another process.

	  I modified your test-case so that child2() calls child() when
	  it detects the missed bp, and this does trigger do_debug/etc
	  while it should not.

Oleg.