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powerpc/watchpoint: Don't allow concurrent perf and ptrace events

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With Book3s DAWR, ptrace and perf watchpoints on powerpc behaves
differently. Ptrace watchpoint works in one-shot mode and generates
signal before executing instruction. It's ptrace user's job to
single-step the instruction and re-enable the watchpoint. OTOH, in
case of perf watchpoint, kernel emulates/single-steps the instruction
and then generates event. If perf and ptrace creates two events with
same or overlapping address ranges, it's ambiguous to decide who
should single-step the instruction. Because of this issue, don't
allow perf and ptrace watchpoint at the same time if their address
range overlaps.

Signed-off-by: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Reviewed-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200514111741.97993-15-ravi.bangoria@linux.ibm.com
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Ravi Bangoria
2020-05-14 16:47:39 +05:30
committed by Michael Ellerman
parent 74c6881019
commit 29da4f91c0
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arch/powerpc/include/asm/hw_breakpoint.h
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@@ -70,6 +70,8 @@ extern int hw_breakpoint_exceptions_notify(struct notifier_block *unused,
unsigned long val, void *data);
int arch_install_hw_breakpoint(struct perf_event *bp);
void arch_uninstall_hw_breakpoint(struct perf_event *bp);
int arch_reserve_bp_slot(struct perf_event *bp);
void arch_release_bp_slot(struct perf_event *bp);
void arch_unregister_hw_breakpoint(struct perf_event *bp);
void hw_breakpoint_pmu_read(struct perf_event *bp);
extern void flush_ptrace_hw_breakpoint(struct task_struct *tsk);