x86, ptrace: Fix block-step
Implement ptrace-block-step using TIF_BLOCKSTEP which will set
DEBUGCTLMSR_BTF when set for a task while preserving any other
DEBUGCTLMSR bits.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20100325135414.017536066@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/process.c b/arch/x86/kernel/process.c
index 1a60beb..8328009 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/process.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/process.c
@@ -195,6 +195,17 @@
prev = &prev_p->thread;
next = &next_p->thread;
+ if (test_tsk_thread_flag(prev_p, TIF_BLOCKSTEP) ^
+ test_tsk_thread_flag(next_p, TIF_BLOCKSTEP)) {
+ unsigned long debugctl = get_debugctlmsr();
+
+ debugctl &= ~DEBUGCTLMSR_BTF;
+ if (test_tsk_thread_flag(next_p, TIF_BLOCKSTEP))
+ debugctl |= DEBUGCTLMSR_BTF;
+
+ update_debugctlmsr(debugctl);
+ }
+
if (test_tsk_thread_flag(prev_p, TIF_NOTSC) ^
test_tsk_thread_flag(next_p, TIF_NOTSC)) {
/* prev and next are different */