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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2] powerpc/watchpoint: Disable watchpoint hit by larx/stcx instructions
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On Tue, 2019-09-10 at 13:15:13 UTC, Ravi Bangoria wrote:
> If watchpoint exception is generated by larx/stcx instructions, the
> reservation created by larx gets lost while handling exception, and
> thus stcx instruction always fails. Generally these instructions are
> used in a while(1) loop, for example spinlocks. And because stcx
> never succeeds, it loops forever and ultimately hangs the system.
>
> Note that ptrace anyway works in one-shot mode and thus for ptrace
> we don't change the behaviour. It's up to ptrace user to take care
> of this.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@linux.ibm.com>
> Acked-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

Applied to powerpc next, thanks.

https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/bc01bdf6c5df5023272a7399962cf64f8fedc93e

cheers

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