Jan Beulich 5b0e508415 x86: prevent unconditional writes to DebugCtl MSR ...

Otherwise, enabling (or better, subsequent disabling) of single
stepping would cause a kernel oops on CPUs not having this MSR.

The patch could have been added a conditional to the MSR write in
user_disable_single_step(), but centralizing the updates seems safer
and (looking forward) better manageable.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Cc: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

2008-04-17 17:40:58 +02:00

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