[PATCH v4 01/13] arm64: debug: clean up single_step_handler logic

Ada Couprie Diaz ada.coupriediaz at arm.com
Fri Jun 20 14:11:55 PDT 2025


Remove the unnecessary boolean which always checks if the handler was found
and return early instead.

Signed-off-by: Ada Couprie Diaz <ada.coupriediaz at arm.com>
Tested-by: Luis Claudio R. Goncalves <lgoncalv at redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual at arm.com>
Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland at arm.com>
---
 arch/arm64/kernel/debug-monitors.c | 10 ++++------
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/debug-monitors.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/debug-monitors.c
index 58f047de3e1c..676fa0231935 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/debug-monitors.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/debug-monitors.c
@@ -241,8 +241,6 @@ static void send_user_sigtrap(int si_code)
 static int single_step_handler(unsigned long unused, unsigned long esr,
 			       struct pt_regs *regs)
 {
-	bool handler_found = false;
-
 	/*
 	 * If we are stepping a pending breakpoint, call the hw_breakpoint
 	 * handler first.
@@ -250,10 +248,10 @@ static int single_step_handler(unsigned long unused, unsigned long esr,
 	if (!reinstall_suspended_bps(regs))
 		return 0;
 
-	if (!handler_found && call_step_hook(regs, esr) == DBG_HOOK_HANDLED)
-		handler_found = true;
+	if (call_step_hook(regs, esr) == DBG_HOOK_HANDLED)
+		return 0;
 
-	if (!handler_found && user_mode(regs)) {
+	if (user_mode(regs)) {
 		send_user_sigtrap(TRAP_TRACE);
 
 		/*
@@ -263,7 +261,7 @@ static int single_step_handler(unsigned long unused, unsigned long esr,
 		 * to the active-not-pending state).
 		 */
 		user_rewind_single_step(current);
-	} else if (!handler_found) {
+	} else {
 		pr_warn("Unexpected kernel single-step exception at EL1\n");
 		/*
 		 * Re-enable stepping since we know that we will be

base-commit: e04c78d86a9699d136910cfc0bdcf01087e3267e
-- 
2.43.0




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