[PATCH] xmon: Clear all breakpoints when xmon is disabled via debugfs

Balbir Singh bsingharora at gmail.com
Mon Mar 5 08:27:52 AEDT 2018


On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 4:31 AM, Vaibhav Jain <vaibhav at linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> Presently when xmon is disabled by debugfs any existing
> instruction/data-access breakpoints set are not disabled. This may
> lead to kernel oops when those breakpoints are hit as the necessary
> debugger hooks aren't installed.
>
> Hence this patch introduces a new function named clear_all_bpt()
> which is called when xmon is disabled via debugfs. The function will
> unpatch/clear all the trap and ciabr/dab based breakpoints.
>
> Signed-off-by: Vaibhav Jain <vaibhav at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> ---

Reviewed-by: Balbir Singh <bsingharora at gmail.com>

Balbir


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