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hw-breakpoints: modify signal handling code to refrain from re-enabling HW Breakpoints

This patch disables re-enabling of Hardware Breakpoint registers through
the signal handling code. This is now done during from hw_breakpoint_handler().

Original-patch-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
K.Prasad 16 лет назад
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      arch/x86/kernel/signal.c

+ 0 - 9
arch/x86/kernel/signal.c

@@ -800,15 +800,6 @@ static void do_signal(struct pt_regs *regs)
 
 	signr = get_signal_to_deliver(&info, &ka, regs, NULL);
 	if (signr > 0) {
-		/*
-		 * Re-enable any watchpoints before delivering the
-		 * signal to user space. The processor register will
-		 * have been cleared if the watchpoint triggered
-		 * inside the kernel.
-		 */
-		if (current->thread.debugreg7)
-			set_debugreg(current->thread.debugreg7, 7);
-
 		/* Whee! Actually deliver the signal.  */
 		if (handle_signal(signr, &info, &ka, oldset, regs) == 0) {
 			/*