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x86/debug: Clear reserved bits of DR6 in do_debug()

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Clear the reserved bits from the stored copy of debug status
register (DR6).
This will help easy bitwise operations such as quick testing
of a debug event origin.

Signed-off-by: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
LKML-Reference: <20100128111401.GB13935@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
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K.Prasad
2010-01-28 16:44:01 +05:30
committed by Frederic Weisbecker
parent 1e12a4a7a3
commit 40f9249a73
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@ -534,6 +534,9 @@ dotraplinkage void __kprobes do_debug(struct pt_regs *regs, long error_code)
get_debugreg(dr6, 6);
/* Filter out all the reserved bits which are preset to 1 */
dr6 &= ~DR6_RESERVED;
/* Catch kmemcheck conditions first of all! */
if ((dr6 & DR_STEP) && kmemcheck_trap(regs))
return;