5.10-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Benjamin Gray bgray@linux.ibm.com
[ Upstream commit 27646b2e02b096a6936b3e3b6ba334ae20763eab ]
It can be easy to miss that the notifier mechanism invokes the callbacks in an atomic context, so add some comments to that effect on the two handlers we register here.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Gray bgray@linux.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman mpe@ellerman.id.au Link: https://msgid.link/20230829063457.54157-4-bgray@linux.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin sashal@kernel.org --- arch/powerpc/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c index 49273f67c7498..ca3374c6f3749 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c @@ -611,6 +611,11 @@ static void handle_p10dd1_spurious_exception(struct arch_hw_breakpoint **info, } }
+/* + * Handle a DABR or DAWR exception. + * + * Called in atomic context. + */ int hw_breakpoint_handler(struct die_args *args) { bool err = false; @@ -737,6 +742,8 @@ NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(hw_breakpoint_handler);
/* * Handle single-step exceptions following a DABR hit. + * + * Called in atomic context. */ static int single_step_dabr_instruction(struct die_args *args) { @@ -794,6 +801,8 @@ NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(single_step_dabr_instruction);
/* * Handle debug exception notifications. + * + * Called in atomic context. */ int hw_breakpoint_exceptions_notify( struct notifier_block *unused, unsigned long val, void *data)