Re: [PATCH 4/4] arm64: kgdb: Set PSTATE.SS to 1 to reenable single-step

From: liwei (GF)
Date: Sat May 16 2020 - 04:20:54 EST


Hi Douglas,

On 2020/5/14 8:23, Doug Anderson wrote:
(SNIP)
>> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/kgdb.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/kgdb.c
>> index 3910ac06c261..093ad9d2e5e6 100644
>> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/kgdb.c
>> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/kgdb.c
>> @@ -230,7 +230,8 @@ int kgdb_arch_handle_exception(int exception_vector, int signo,
>> kernel_prepare_single_step(&per_cpu(kgdb_ss_flags,
>> raw_smp_processor_id()), linux_regs);
>> kernel_enable_single_step(linux_regs);
>> - }
>> + } else
>> + set_regs_spsr_ss(linux_regs);
>
> One slight nit is that my personal preference is that if one half of
> an "if/else" needs braces then both halves should have braces. I
Thanks for spotting it. Refer to Documentation/process/coding-style.rst,
i will fix it in the v2.

> don't know what Catalin and Will's policies are, though.
>
> Other than that, this seems right to me. I will leave it to the
> Catalin and Will folks to say if they'd rather have this call made
> from a different place or if they're happy with where you've put it.
>
> Reviewed-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Tested-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>

Thanks,
Wei