Re: [v5][PATCH 4/6] powerpc/book3e: support kgdb for kernel space

From: Scott Wood
Date: Fri Oct 18 2013 - 18:58:59 EST


On Thu, 2013-06-20 at 18:28 +0800, Tiejun Chen wrote:
> Currently we need to skip this for supporting KGDB.

Does it need to depend on CONFIG_KGDB? Either you've fixed the "can't
quite save properly" part, or you haven't.

-Scott

>
> Signed-off-by: Tiejun Chen <tiejun.chen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64e.S | 4 +++-
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64e.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64e.S
> index 07cf657..a286b51 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64e.S
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64e.S
> @@ -639,11 +639,13 @@ kernel_dbg_exc:
> rfdi
>
> /* Normal debug exception */
> +1: andi. r14,r11,MSR_PR; /* check for userspace again */
> +#ifndef CONFIG_KGDB
> /* XXX We only handle coming from userspace for now since we can't
> * quite save properly an interrupted kernel state yet
> */
> -1: andi. r14,r11,MSR_PR; /* check for userspace again */
> beq kernel_dbg_exc; /* if from kernel mode */
> +#endif
>
> /* Now we mash up things to make it look like we are coming on a
> * normal exception



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