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authorStephane Eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com>2006-07-09 21:12:39 -0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-07-09 18:47:12 -0700
commitb3cf257623fabd8f1ee6700a6d328cc1c5da5a1d (patch)
tree28b98f21dd108864d2edc11d179cb48c118b2cf8 /arch/i386/kernel/ptrace.c
parent09075ef0fd585fb093bb9a6cd1240272114f89cf (diff)
[PATCH] i386: use thread_info flags for debug regs and IO bitmaps
Use thread info flags to track use of debug registers and IO bitmaps. - add TIF_DEBUG to track when debug registers are active - add TIF_IO_BITMAP to track when I/O bitmap is used - modify __switch_to() to use the new TIF flags Performance tested on Pentium II, ten runs of LMbench context switch benchmark (smaller is better:) before after avg 3.65 3.39 min 3.55 3.33 Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com> Signed-off-by: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com> Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/i386/kernel/ptrace.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/i386/kernel/ptrace.c5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/i386/kernel/ptrace.c b/arch/i386/kernel/ptrace.c
index fd7eaf7866e..d3db03f4085 100644
--- a/arch/i386/kernel/ptrace.c
+++ b/arch/i386/kernel/ptrace.c
@@ -468,8 +468,11 @@ long arch_ptrace(struct task_struct *child, long request, long addr, long data)
for(i=0; i<4; i++)
if ((0x5f54 >> ((data >> (16 + 4*i)) & 0xf)) & 1)
goto out_tsk;
+ if (data)
+ set_tsk_thread_flag(child, TIF_DEBUG);
+ else
+ clear_tsk_thread_flag(child, TIF_DEBUG);
}
-
addr -= (long) &dummy->u_debugreg;
addr = addr >> 2;
child->thread.debugreg[addr] = data;