Commit 4ba51fd7 authored by Roland McGrath's avatar Roland McGrath Committed by Linus Torvalds

x86 ptrace: avoid unnecessary wrmsr

This avoids using wrmsr on MSR_IA32_DEBUGCTLMSR when it's not needed.
No wrmsr ever needs to be done if noone has ever used block stepping.

Without this change, using ptrace on 2.6.25 on an x86 KVM guest
will tickle KVM's missing support for the MSR and crash the guest
kernel.  Though host KVM is the buggy one, this makes for a regression
in the guest behavior from 2.6.24->2.6.25 that we can easily avoid.

I also corrected some bad whitespace.
Signed-off-by: default avatarRoland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 2eccd6f6
......@@ -140,6 +140,9 @@ static int enable_single_step(struct task_struct *child)
*/
static void write_debugctlmsr(struct task_struct *child, unsigned long val)
{
if (child->thread.debugctlmsr == val)
return;
child->thread.debugctlmsr = val;
if (child != current)
......@@ -165,11 +168,11 @@ static void enable_step(struct task_struct *child, bool block)
write_debugctlmsr(child,
child->thread.debugctlmsr | DEBUGCTLMSR_BTF);
} else {
write_debugctlmsr(child,
child->thread.debugctlmsr & ~DEBUGCTLMSR_BTF);
write_debugctlmsr(child,
child->thread.debugctlmsr & ~DEBUGCTLMSR_BTF);
if (!child->thread.debugctlmsr)
clear_tsk_thread_flag(child, TIF_DEBUGCTLMSR);
if (!child->thread.debugctlmsr)
clear_tsk_thread_flag(child, TIF_DEBUGCTLMSR);
}
}
......
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