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Jason Wessel
d7161a6534 kgdb, x86, arm, mips, powerpc: ignore user space single stepping
On the x86 arch, user space single step exceptions should be ignored
if they occur in the kernel space, such as ptrace stepping through a
system call.

First check if it is kgdb that is executing a single step, then ensure
it is not an accidental traversal into the user space, while in kgdb,
any other time the TIF_SINGLESTEP is set, kgdb should ignore the
exception.

On x86, arm, mips and powerpc, the kgdb_contthread usage was
inconsistent with the way single stepping is implemented in the kgdb
core.  The arch specific stub should always set the
kgdb_cpu_doing_single_step correctly if it is single stepping.  This
allows kgdb to correctly process an instruction steps if ptrace
happens to be requesting an instruction step over a system call.

Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
2008-09-26 10:36:41 -05:00
Jason Wessel
5cbad0ebf4 kgdb: support for ARCH=arm
This patch adds the ARCH=arm specific a kgdb backend, originally
written by Deepak Saxena <dsaxena@plexity.net> and George Davis
<gdavis@mvista.com>.  Geoff Levand <geoffrey.levand@am.sony.com>,
Nicolas Pitre, Manish Lachwani, and Jason Wessel have contributed
various fixups here as well.

The KGDB patch makes one change to the core ARM architecture such that
the traps are initialized early for use with the debugger or other
subsystems.

[ mingo@elte.hu: small cleanups. ]
[ ben-linux@fluff.org: fixed early_trap_init ]

Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Acked-by: Deepak Saxena <dsaxena@plexity.net>
2008-07-23 11:30:15 -05:00