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| author | K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2009-06-01 23:46:03 +0530 |
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| committer | Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> | 2009-06-02 22:47:00 +0200 |
| commit | 17f557e5b5d43a2af66c969f6560ac7105020672 (patch) | |
| tree | a3aab9ccd15dca1a44490a05defb45423a9945d5 /arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_32.c | |
| parent | 72f674d203cd230426437cdcf7dd6f681dad8b0d (diff) | |
hw-breakpoints: cleanup HW Breakpoint registers before kexec
This patch disables Hardware breakpoints before doing a 'kexec' on the machine
so that the cpu doesn't keep debug registers values which would be out of
sync for the new image.
Original-patch-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_32.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_32.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_32.c b/arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_32.c index c1c429d00130..c843f8406da2 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_32.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_32.c @@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ #include <asm/desc.h> #include <asm/system.h> #include <asm/cacheflush.h> +#include <asm/debugreg.h> static void set_idt(void *newidt, __u16 limit) { @@ -202,6 +203,7 @@ void machine_kexec(struct kimage *image) /* Interrupts aren't acceptable while we reboot */ local_irq_disable(); + hw_breakpoint_disable(); if (image->preserve_context) { #ifdef CONFIG_X86_IO_APIC |