[PATCH 2/2] arm64: Fix watchpoint recursion when single-step is wrongly triggered in irq

Pratyush Anand panand at redhat.com
Mon Mar 21 03:24:23 PDT 2016


On 21/03/2016:08:37:50 AM, He Kuang wrote:
> On arm64, watchpoint handler enables single-step to bypass the next
> instruction for not recursive enter. If an irq is triggered right
> after the watchpoint, a single-step will be wrongly triggered in irq
> handler, which causes the watchpoint address not stepped over and
> system hang.

Does patch [1] resolves this issue as well? I hope it should. Patch[1] has still
not been sent for review. Your test result will be helpful.

~Pratyush

[1] https://github.com/pratyushanand/linux/commit/7623c8099ac22eaa00e7e0f52430f7a4bd154652



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