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The Breaking-Event-Address-Register (BEAR) stores the address of the last breaking event instruction. Breaking events are usually instructions that change the program flow - for example branches, and instructions that modify the address in the PSW like lpswe. This is useful for debugging wild branches, because one could easily figure out where the wild branch was originating from. What is problematic is that lpswe is considered a breaking event, and therefore overwrites BEAR on kernel exit. The BEAR enhancement facility adds new instructions that allow to save/restore BEAR and also an lpswey instruction that doesn't cause a breaking event. So we can save BEAR on kernel entry and restore it on exit to user space. Signed-off-by: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.