[PATCH] x86_64: Keep only a single debug notifier chain

Calling a notifier three times in the debug handler does not make much sense,
because a debugger can figure out the various conditions by itself.  Remove
the additional calls to DIE_DEBUG and DIE_DEBUGSTEP completely.

This matches what i386 does now.

This also makes sure interrupts are always still disabled when calling a
debugger, which prevents:

BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible [00000001] code: tpopf/1470
caller is post_kprobe_handler+0x9/0x70

Call Trace:<ffffffff8024f10f>{smp_processor_id+191} <ffffffff80120e69>{post_kpro
be_handler+9} 
<ffffffff80120f7a>{kprobe_exceptions_notify+58} 
<ffffffff80144fc0>{notifier_call_chain+32} <ffffffff80110daf>{do_debug+335} 
<ffffffff8010f513>{debug+127}  <EOE> 

on preemptible debug kernels with kprobes when single stepping in user space.

This was probably a bug even on non preempt kernels, this function was
supposed to be running with interrupts off according to a comment there.

Note to third part debugger maintainers: please double check your debugger can
still single step.

Cc: <prasanna@in.ibm.com>
Cc: <jbeulich@novell.com>
Cc: <kaos@sgi.com>
Cc: <jim.houston@ccur.com>
Cc: <jfv@bluesong.net>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/include/asm-x86_64/kdebug.h b/include/asm-x86_64/kdebug.h
index adb6f918d3ad..6277f75cbb4b 100644
--- a/include/asm-x86_64/kdebug.h
+++ b/include/asm-x86_64/kdebug.h
@@ -23,7 +23,6 @@ enum die_val {
         DIE_OOPS = 1,
         DIE_INT3,
         DIE_DEBUG,
-        DIE_DEBUGSTEP,
         DIE_PANIC,
         DIE_NMI,
         DIE_DIE,