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authorK.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2009-06-01 23:45:03 +0530
committerFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>2009-06-02 22:46:59 +0200
commitda0cdc14f5f7e0faee6b2393fefed056cdb17146 (patch)
tree7b37af4b77a61efc531325f3130a9c2432dabbc8 /arch
parent66cb5917295958652ff6ba36d83f98f2379c46b4 (diff)
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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>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/signal.c9
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/signal.c b/arch/x86/kernel/signal.c
index 1442516..f33d2e0 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/signal.c
+++ b/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) {
/*
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