aha/arch/x86
Jason Wessel 8097551d9a kgdb,x86: do not set kgdb_single_step on x86
On an SMP system the kgdb_single_step flag has the possibility to
indefinitely hang the system in the case.  Consider the case where,
CPU 1 has the schedule lock and CPU 0 is set to single step, there is
no way for CPU 0 to run another task.

The easy way to observe the problem is to make 2 cpus busy, and run
the kgdb test suite.  You will see that it hangs the system very
quickly.

while [ 1 ] ; do find /proc > /dev/null 2>&1 ; done &
while [ 1 ] ; do find /proc > /dev/null 2>&1 ; done &
echo V1 > /sys/module/kgdbts/parameters/kgdbts

The side effect of this patch is that there is the possibility
to miss a breakpoint in the case that a single step operation
was executed to step over a breakpoint in common code.

The trade off of the missed breakpoint is preferred to
hanging the kernel.  This can be fixed in the future by
using kprobes or another strategy to step over planted
breakpoints with out of line execution.

CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
2009-12-11 08:43:18 -06:00
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boot Merge branch 'x86-setup-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2009-12-08 13:35:29 -08:00
configs tracing: Rename FTRACE_SYSCALLS for tracepoints 2009-08-26 00:17:35 +02:00
crypto Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6 2009-12-01 15:16:22 +08:00
ia32 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6 2009-12-08 07:55:01 -08:00
include/asm Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2009-12-09 19:43:33 -08:00
kernel kgdb,x86: do not set kgdb_single_step on x86 2009-12-11 08:43:18 -06:00
kvm Merge branch 'kvm-updates/2.6.33' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm 2009-12-08 08:02:38 -08:00
lguest lguest: move panic notifier registration to its expected place. 2009-09-23 22:26:44 +09:30
lib Merge branch 'x86-cpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2009-12-05 15:32:35 -08:00
math-emu
mm Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2009-12-09 19:43:33 -08:00
oprofile perf: Do the big rename: Performance Counters -> Performance Events 2009-09-21 14:28:04 +02:00
pci const: mark struct vm_struct_operations 2009-09-27 11:39:25 -07:00
power hw-breakpoints: Rewrite the hw-breakpoints layer on top of perf events 2009-11-08 15:34:42 +01:00
tools Merge branch 'perf/probes' into perf/core 2009-12-03 20:11:38 +01:00
vdso sysctl x86: Remove dead binary sysctl support 2009-11-12 02:05:04 -08:00
video
xen Merge branch 'bugfix' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jeremy/xen 2009-12-10 09:35:02 -08:00
Kbuild
Kconfig Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2009-12-08 13:38:11 -08:00
Kconfig.cpu Merge branch 'x86-mm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2009-12-08 13:27:33 -08:00
Kconfig.debug Merge branch 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2009-12-05 15:32:03 -08:00
Makefile Merge branch 'perf/core' into perf/probes 2009-11-17 10:17:47 +01:00
Makefile_32.cpu Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2009-12-08 13:38:11 -08:00