Currently BookE and Book3E always copy the thread_info from
the kernel stack when we enter the debug exception, so we can
remove these action here to avoid copying again.
Signed-off-by: Tiejun Chen <tiejun.c...@windriver.com>
---
arch/powerpc/kernel/kgdb.c | 28 ----------------------------
1 file changed, 28 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/kgdb.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/kgdb.c
index 1a57307..e954888 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/kgdb.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/kgdb.c
@@ -153,39 +153,11 @@ static int kgdb_handle_breakpoint(struct pt_regs *regs)
static int kgdb_singlestep(struct pt_regs *regs)
{
- struct thread_info *thread_info, *exception_thread_info;
- struct thread_info *backup_current_thread_info;
-
if (user_mode(regs))
return 0;
- backup_current_thread_info = (struct thread_info
*)kmalloc(sizeof(struct thread_info), GFP_KERNEL);
- /*
- * On Book E and perhaps other processors, singlestep is handled on
- * the critical exception stack. This causes current_thread_info()
- * to fail, since it it locates the thread_info by masking off
- * the low bits of the current stack pointer. We work around
- * this issue by copying the thread_info from the kernel stack
- * before calling kgdb_handle_exception, and copying it back
- * afterwards. On most processors the copy is avoided since
- * exception_thread_info == thread_info.
- */
- thread_info = (struct thread_info *)(regs->gpr[1] & ~(THREAD_SIZE-1));
- exception_thread_info = current_thread_info();
-
- if (thread_info != exception_thread_info) {
- /* Save the original current_thread_info. */
- memcpy(backup_current_thread_info, exception_thread_info,
sizeof *thread_info);
- memcpy(exception_thread_info, thread_info, sizeof *thread_info);
- }
-
kgdb_handle_exception(0, SIGTRAP, 0, regs);
- if (thread_info != exception_thread_info)
- /* Restore current_thread_info lastly. */
- memcpy(exception_thread_info, backup_current_thread_info,
sizeof *thread_info);
-
- kfree(backup_current_thread_info);
return 1;
}
--
1.7.9.5
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