Hi. do_debug() is obviously wrong wrt PTRACE_SINGLESTEP/TIF_SINGLESTEP, no?
Afaics this was broken by hw-breakpoints: modifying generic debug exception to use thread-specific debug registers commit 08d68323d1f0c34452e614263b212ca556dae47f To verify, the "patch" below fixes the stepping for me, not sure what is the proper fix... Oleg. --- arch/x86/kernel/traps.c~ 2009-12-18 00:20:49.000000000 +0100 +++ arch/x86/kernel/traps.c 2009-12-18 01:44:05.000000000 +0100 @@ -575,7 +575,7 @@ dotraplinkage void __kprobes do_debug(st regs->flags &= ~X86_EFLAGS_TF; } si_code = get_si_code(tsk->thread.debugreg6); - if (tsk->thread.debugreg6 & (DR_STEP | DR_TRAP_BITS)) +// if (tsk->thread.debugreg6 & (DR_STEP | DR_TRAP_BITS)) send_sigtrap(tsk, regs, error_code, si_code); preempt_conditional_cli(regs);