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    x86: Allow nesting of the debug stack IDT setting · f8988175
    Steven Rostedt authored
    When the NMI handler runs, it checks if it preempted a debug handler
    and if that handler is using the debug stack. If it is, it changes the
    IDT table not to update the stack, otherwise it will reset the debug
    stack and corrupt the debug handler it preempted.
    
    Now that ftrace uses breakpoints to change functions from nops to
    callers, many more places may hit a breakpoint. Unfortunately this
    includes some of the calls that lockdep performs. Which causes issues
    with the debug stack. It too needs to change the debug stack before
    tracing (if called from the debug handler).
    
    Allow the debug_stack_set_zero() and debug_stack_reset() to be nested
    so that the debug handlers can take advantage of them too.
    
    [ Used this_cpu_*() over __get_cpu_var() as suggested by H. Peter Anvin ]
    Signed-off-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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