powerpc, hw_breakpoint: Discard extraneous interrupt due to accesses outside symbol length

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Many a times, the requested breakpoint length can be less than the
fixed breakpoint length i.e. 8 bytes supported by PowerPC 64-bit
server (Book III S) processors.  This could lead to extraneous
interrupts resulting in false breakpoint notifications.  This
detects and discards such interrupts for non-ptrace requests.
We don't change ptrace behaviour to avoid breaking compatability.

[Suggestion from Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> to add a new flag in
'struct arch_hw_breakpoint' to identify extraneous interrupts]

Signed-off-by: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>

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K.Prasad 2010-06-15 11:36:12 +05:30 • committed by Paul Mackerras

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arch/powerpc/include/asm/hw_breakpoint.h

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arch/powerpc/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c

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