x86: prevent unconditional writes to DebugCtl MSR
authorJan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Mon, 10 Mar 2008 13:11:17 +0000 (13:11 +0000)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Thu, 17 Apr 2008 15:40:58 +0000 (17:40 +0200)
Otherwise, enabling (or better, subsequent disabling) of single
stepping would cause a kernel oops on CPUs not having this MSR.

The patch could have been added a conditional to the MSR write in
user_disable_single_step(), but centralizing the updates seems safer
and (looking forward) better manageable.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Cc: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

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