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Commit ad41a14c authored by H. Peter Anvin (Intel)'s avatar H. Peter Anvin (Intel) Committed by Borislav Petkov (AMD)
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x86/fred: Allow single-step trap and NMI when starting a new task



Entering a new task is logically speaking a return from a system call
(exec, fork, clone, etc.). As such, if ptrace enables single stepping
a single step exception should be allowed to trigger immediately upon
entering user space. This is not optional.

NMI should *never* be disabled in user space. As such, this is an
optional, opportunistic way to catch errors.

Allow single-step trap and NMI when starting a new task, thus once
the new task enters user space, single-step trap and NMI are both
enabled immediately.

Signed-off-by: default avatarH. Peter Anvin (Intel) <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarXin Li <xin3.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarBorislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Tested-by: default avatarShan Kang <shan.kang@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231205105030.8698-21-xin3.li@intel.com
parent df883873
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