[PATCH] x86_64: Remove CONFIG_CHECKING and add command line option for pagefault tracing

CONFIG_CHECKING covered some debugging code used in the early times
of the port. But it wasn't even SMP safe for quite some time
and the bugs it checked for seem to be gone.

This patch removes all the code to verify GS at kernel entry. There
haven't been any new bugs in this area for a long time.

Previously it also covered the sysctl for the page fault tracing.
That didn't make much sense because that code was unconditionally
compiled in. I made that a boot option now because it is typically
only useful at boot.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 40 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86_64/kernel/traps.c b/arch/x86_64/kernel/traps.c
index 4a836384dd0..bf337f49318 100644
--- a/arch/x86_64/kernel/traps.c
+++ b/arch/x86_64/kernel/traps.c
@@ -428,19 +428,6 @@ static void __kprobes do_trap(int trapnr, int signr, char *str,
 {
 	conditional_sti(regs);
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_CHECKING
-       { 
-               unsigned long gs; 
-               struct x8664_pda *pda = cpu_pda + safe_smp_processor_id(); 
-               rdmsrl(MSR_GS_BASE, gs); 
-               if (gs != (unsigned long)pda) { 
-                       wrmsrl(MSR_GS_BASE, pda); 
-                       printk("%s: wrong gs %lx expected %p rip %lx\n", str, gs, pda,
-			      regs->rip);
-               }
-       }
-#endif
-
 	if (user_mode(regs)) {
 		struct task_struct *tsk = current;
 
@@ -513,20 +500,6 @@ asmlinkage void __kprobes do_general_protection(struct pt_regs * regs,
 {
 	conditional_sti(regs);
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_CHECKING
-       { 
-               unsigned long gs; 
-               struct x8664_pda *pda = cpu_pda + safe_smp_processor_id(); 
-               rdmsrl(MSR_GS_BASE, gs); 
-               if (gs != (unsigned long)pda) { 
-                       wrmsrl(MSR_GS_BASE, pda); 
-		       oops_in_progress++;
-                       printk("general protection handler: wrong gs %lx expected %p\n", gs, pda);
-		       oops_in_progress--;
-               }
-       }
-#endif
-
 	if (user_mode(regs)) {
 		struct task_struct *tsk = current;
 
@@ -665,19 +638,6 @@ asmlinkage void __kprobes do_debug(struct pt_regs * regs,
 	struct task_struct *tsk = current;
 	siginfo_t info;
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_CHECKING
-       { 
-	       /* RED-PEN interaction with debugger - could destroy gs */
-               unsigned long gs; 
-               struct x8664_pda *pda = cpu_pda + safe_smp_processor_id(); 
-               rdmsrl(MSR_GS_BASE, gs); 
-               if (gs != (unsigned long)pda) { 
-                       wrmsrl(MSR_GS_BASE, pda); 
-                       printk("debug handler: wrong gs %lx expected %p\n", gs, pda);
-               }
-       }
-#endif
-
 	get_debugreg(condition, 6);
 
 	if (notify_die(DIE_DEBUG, "debug", regs, condition, error_code,