Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 28 Jan 2016 21:53:27 +0100 | From | Oleg Nesterov <> | Subject | Re: x86: Hardware breakpoints are not always triggered |
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On 01/28, Andrey Wagin wrote: > > We use hardware breakpoints in CRIU and we found that sometimes we set > a break-point, but a process doesn't stop on it.
reproduced, and this certainly looks like kvm bug to me.
> The reproducer uses a different break-point address if it is executed > with arguments than when it executed without arguments.
IOW, multiple processes running in parallel use the same debug register db0 but different address. And it seems that set_debugreg(address, 0) sometime doesn't work in the guest kernel.
I think I verified the following:
- debug registers look always correct as it seen by the guest. I used get_debugreg() to dump them after the task misses bp.
- do_debug() was not called in this case.
- finally, it seems that the host has the wrong value in db0 set by another process.
I modified your test-case so that child2() calls child() when it detects the missed bp, and this does trigger do_debug/etc while it should not.
Oleg.
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