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Benjamin Gray bd29813ae1 powerpc/watchpoints: Remove ptrace/perf exclusion tracking 
ptrace and perf watchpoints were considered incompatible in
commit 29da4f91c0 ("powerpc/watchpoint: Don't allow concurrent perf
and ptrace events"), but the logic in that commit doesn't really apply.

Ptrace doesn't automatically single step; the ptracer must request this
explicitly. And the ptracer can do so regardless of whether a
ptrace/perf watchpoint triggered or not: it could single step every
instruction if it wanted to. Whatever stopped the ptracee before
executing the instruction that would trigger the perf watchpoint is no
longer relevant by this point.

To get correct behaviour when perf and ptrace are watching the same
data we must ignore the perf watchpoint. After all, ptrace has
before-execute semantics, and perf is after-execute, so perf doesn't
actually care about the watchpoint trigger at this point in time.
Pausing before execution does not mean we will actually end up executing
the instruction.

Importantly though, we don't remove the perf watchpoint yet. This is
key.

The ptracer is free to do whatever it likes right now. E.g., it can
continue the process, single step. or even set the child PC somewhere
completely different.

If it does try to execute the instruction though, without reinserting
the watchpoint (in which case we go back to the start of this example),
the perf watchpoint would immediately trigger. This time there is no
ptrace watchpoint, so we can safely perform a single step and increment
the perf counter. Upon receiving the single step exception, the existing
code already handles propagating or consuming it based on whether
another subsystem (e.g. ptrace) requested a single step. Again, this is
needed with or without perf/ptrace exclusion, because ptrace could be
single stepping this instruction regardless of if a watchpoint is
involved.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Gray <bgray@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://msgid.link/20230801011744.153973-6-bgray@linux.ibm.com
2023-08-16 23:54:50 +10:00
arch powerpc/watchpoints: Remove ptrace/perf exclusion tracking 2023-08-16 23:54:50 +10:00
block block-6.5-2023-07-21 2023-07-22 11:05:15 -07:00
certs KEYS: Add missing function documentation 2023-04-24 16:15:52 +03:00
crypto crypto: algif_hash - Fix race between MORE and non-MORE sends 2023-07-08 22:48:42 +10:00
Documentation docs: ABI: sysfs-bus-event_source-devices-hv_gpci: Document affinity_domain_via_partition sysfs interface file 2023-08-16 23:54:49 +10:00
drivers cxl: Use pci_find_vsec_capability() to simplify the code 2023-08-16 23:54:48 +10:00
fs Bug and regression fixes for 6.5-rc3 for ext4's mballoc and jbd2's 2023-07-23 10:21:49 -07:00
include cpu/SMT: Store the current/max number of threads 2023-07-28 09:53:37 +02:00
init Kbuild updates for v6.5 2023-07-01 09:24:31 -07:00
io_uring io_uring-6.5-2023-07-21 2023-07-22 10:46:30 -07:00
ipc Merge branch 'work.namespace' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2023-02-24 19:20:07 -08:00
kernel cpu/SMT: Allow enabling partial SMT states via sysfs 2023-07-28 09:53:37 +02:00
lib block-6.5-2023-07-21 2023-07-22 11:05:15 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Add the copyleft-next-0.3.1 license 2022-11-08 15:44:01 +01:00
mm mm/mlock: fix vma iterator conversion of apply_vma_lock_flags() 2023-07-17 12:53:21 -07:00
net Including fixes from BPF, netfilter, bluetooth and CAN. 2023-07-20 14:46:39 -07:00
rust rust: error: impl Debug for Error with errname() integration 2023-06-13 01:24:42 +02:00
samples arm64: ftrace: Add direct call trampoline samples support 2023-07-10 17:51:54 -04:00
scripts Kbuild fixes for v6.5 2023-07-23 14:55:41 -07:00
security security: keys: Modify mismatched function name 2023-07-17 19:40:27 +00:00
sound ASoC: Fixes for v6.5 2023-07-20 15:16:11 +02:00
tools powerpc: replace #include <asm/export.h> with #include <linux/export.h> 2023-08-16 23:54:48 +10:00
usr initramfs: Encode dependency on KBUILD_BUILD_TIMESTAMP 2023-06-06 17:54:49 +09:00
virt ARM64: 2023-07-03 15:32:22 -07:00
.clang-format iommu: Add for_each_group_device() 2023-05-23 08:15:51 +02:00
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.rustfmt.toml rust: add .rustfmt.toml 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
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Kbuild Kbuild updates for v6.1 2022-10-10 12:00:45 -07:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS ASoC: Fixes for v6.5 2023-07-17 08:21:09 +02:00
Makefile Linux 6.5-rc3 2023-07-23 15:24:10 -07:00
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