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

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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>
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K.Prasad 2009-06-01 23:45:03 +05:30 committed by Frederic Weisbecker
parent 66cb591729
commit da0cdc14f5
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arch/x86/kernel/signal.c
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@ -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) {
/*