[PATCH v2 1/4] kprobes/powerpc: Do not disable External interrupts during single step

2012-12-03 Thread Suzuki K. Poulose
From: Suzuki K. Poulose External/Decrement exceptions have lower priority than the Debug Exception. So, we don't have to disable the External interrupts before a single step. However, on BookE, Critical Input Exception(CE) has higher priority than a Debug Exception. Hence we mask them. Signed-of

Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] kprobes/powerpc: Do not disable External interrupts during single step

2012-12-10 Thread Suzuki K. Poulose
On 12/03/2012 08:37 PM, Suzuki K. Poulose wrote: From: Suzuki K. Poulose External/Decrement exceptions have lower priority than the Debug Exception. So, we don't have to disable the External interrupts before a single step. However, on BookE, Critical Input Exception(CE) has higher priority tha

Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] kprobes/powerpc: Do not disable External interrupts during single step

2013-01-03 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Tue, 2012-12-11 at 11:18 +0530, Suzuki K. Poulose wrote: > On 12/03/2012 08:37 PM, Suzuki K. Poulose wrote: > > From: Suzuki K. Poulose > > > > External/Decrement exceptions have lower priority than the Debug Exception. > > So, we don't have to disable the External interrupts before a single st

Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] kprobes/powerpc: Do not disable External interrupts during single step

2013-01-07 Thread Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
On 01/04/2013 05:42 AM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: On Tue, 2012-12-11 at 11:18 +0530, Suzuki K. Poulose wrote: On 12/03/2012 08:37 PM, Suzuki K. Poulose wrote: From: Suzuki K. Poulose External/Decrement exceptions have lower priority than the Debug Exception. So, we don't have to disable th