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    powerpc: Add force enable of DAWR on P9 option · c1fe190c
    Michael Neuling authored
    This adds a flag so that the DAWR can be enabled on P9 via:
      echo Y > /sys/kernel/debug/powerpc/dawr_enable_dangerous
    
    The DAWR was previously force disabled on POWER9 in:
      96541531 powerpc: Disable DAWR in the base POWER9 CPU features
    Also see Documentation/powerpc/DAWR-POWER9.txt
    
    This is a dangerous setting, USE AT YOUR OWN RISK.
    
    Some users may not care about a bad user crashing their box
    (ie. single user/desktop systems) and really want the DAWR.  This
    allows them to force enable DAWR.
    
    This flag can also be used to disable DAWR access. Once this is
    cleared, all DAWR access should be cleared immediately and your
    machine once again safe from crashing.
    
    Userspace may get confused by toggling this. If DAWR is force
    enabled/disabled between getting the number of breakpoints (via
    PTRACE_GETHWDBGINFO) and setting the breakpoint, userspace will get an
    inconsistent view of what's available. Similarly for guests.
    
    For the DAWR to be enabled in a KVM guest, the DAWR needs to be force
    enabled in the host AND the guest. For this reason, this won't work on
    POWERVM as it doesn't allow the HCALL to work. Writes of 'Y' to the
    dawr_enable_dangerous file will fail if the hypervisor doesn't support
    writing the DAWR.
    
    To double check the DAWR is working, run this kernel selftest:
      tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/ptrace/ptrace-hwbreak.c
    Any errors/failures/skips mean something is wrong.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMichael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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