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    [POWERPC] Fix missed hardware breakpoints across multiple threads · a2ceff5e
    Michael Ellerman authored
    There is a bug in the powerpc DABR (data access breakpoint) handling,
    which can result in us missing breakpoints if several threads are trying
    to break on the same address.
    
    The circumstances are that do_page_fault() calls do_dabr(), this clears
    the DABR (sets it to 0) and sets up the signal which will report to
    userspace that the DABR was hit. The do_signal() code will restore the DABR
    value on the way out to userspace.
    
    If we reschedule before calling do_signal(), __switch_to() will check the
    cached DABR value and compare it to the new thread's value, if they match
    we don't set the DABR in hardware.
    
    So if two threads have the same DABR value, and we schedule from one to
    the other after taking the interrupt for the first thread hitting the DABR,
    the second thread will run without the DABR set in hardware.
    
    The cleanest fix is to move the cache update into set_dabr(), that way we
    can't forget to do it.
    Reported-by: default avatarJan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMichael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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