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Luis reports that, when reverse debugging with GDB, single-step does not function as expected on arm64: | I've noticed, under very specific conditions, that a PTRACE_SINGLESTEP | request by GDB won't execute the underlying instruction. As a consequence, | the PC doesn't move, but we return a SIGTRAP just like we would for a | regular successful PTRACE_SINGLESTEP request. The underlying problem is that when the CPU register state is restored as part of a reverse step, the SPSR.SS bit is cleared and so the hardware single-step state can transition to the "active-pending" state, causing an unexpected step exception to be taken immediately if a step operation is attempted. In hindsight, we probably shouldn't have exposed SPSR.SS in the pstate accessible by the GPR regset, but it's a bit late for that now. Instead, simply prevent userspace from configuring the bit to a value which is inconsistent with the TIF_SINGLESTEP state for the task being traced. Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Keno Fischer <keno@juliacomputing.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1eed6d69-d53d-9657-1fc9-c089be07f98c@linaro.org Reported-by: Luis Machado <luis.machado@linaro.org> Tested-by: Luis Machado <luis.machado@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> |
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Linux kernel
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Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
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https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.