3.9-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx> commit 9c413e25d95fd3c0abe23eadad66191b22baa549 upstream. During boot, we take the debug OS lock before interrupts are enabled. This is required to prevent clearing of PSTATE.D on the interrupt entry path, which could result in spurious debug exceptions before we've got round to resetting things like the hardware breakpoints registers to a sane state. A problem with this approach is that taking the OS lock prevents an external JTAG debugger from debugging the system, which is especially irritating during boot, where JTAG debugging can be most useful. This patch clears mdscr_el1 rather than taking the lock, clearing the MDE and KDE bits and preventing self-hosted hardware debug exceptions from occurring. Tested-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/arm64/kernel/debug-monitors.c | 2 -- arch/arm64/mm/proc.S | 3 +-- 2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-) --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/debug-monitors.c +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/debug-monitors.c @@ -136,8 +136,6 @@ void disable_debug_monitors(enum debug_e */ static void clear_os_lock(void *unused) { - asm volatile("msr mdscr_el1, %0" : : "r" (0)); - isb(); asm volatile("msr oslar_el1, %0" : : "r" (0)); isb(); } --- a/arch/arm64/mm/proc.S +++ b/arch/arm64/mm/proc.S @@ -119,8 +119,7 @@ ENTRY(__cpu_setup) mov x0, #3 << 20 msr cpacr_el1, x0 // Enable FP/ASIMD - mov x0, #1 - msr oslar_el1, x0 // Set the debug OS lock + msr mdscr_el1, xzr // Reset mdscr_el1 tlbi vmalle1is // invalidate I + D TLBs /* * Memory region attributes for LPAE: -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html