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Commit 56fb7093 authored by Jason Wessel's avatar Jason Wessel Committed by Ingo Molnar
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kgdb: fix SMP NMI kgdb_handle_exception exit race



Fix the problem of protecting the kgdb handle_exception exit
which had an NMI race condition, while trying to restore
normal system operation.

There was a small window after the master processor sets cpu_in_debug
to zero but before it has set kgdb_active to zero where a
non-master processor in an SMP system could receive an NMI and
re-enter the kgdb_wait() loop.

As long as the master processor sets the cpu_in_debug before sending
the cpu roundup the cpu_in_debug variable can also be used to guard
against the race condition.

The kgdb_wait() function no longer needs to check
kgdb_active because it is done in the arch specific code
and handled along with the nmi traps at the low level.
This also allows kgdb_wait() to exit correctly if it was
entered for some unknown reason due to a spurious NMI that
could not be handled by the arch specific code.

Signed-off-by: default avatarJason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
parent 225a4424
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