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From: Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauerman@br.ibm.com>
To: David Gibson <dwg@au1.ibm.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, "K.Prasad" <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Edjunior Barbosa Machado <emachado@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] [PowerPC Book3E] Introduce new ptrace debug feature flag
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 20:18:51 -0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1329344331.10157.22.camel@hactar> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120116081833.GG4512@truffala.fritz.box>

On Mon, 2012-01-16 at 19:18 +1100, David Gibson wrote:
> Hrm.  An EXACT breakpoint is not exactly the same as a range
> breakpoint of length 1 (consider unaligned accesses).  But despite
> that, it should be possible to implement exact breakpoints on Book3S
> server hardware with some software filtering.
> 
> And since that leaves no hardware that *can't* implement exact
> breakpoints (directly or indirectly), I'm not yet convinced of the
> need for a flag bit.

I agree.

-- 
[]'s
Thiago Jung Bauermann
IBM Linux Technology Center

  reply	other threads:[~2012-02-15 22:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-12-08 11:12 [PATCH 0/2] Changes to PowerPC ptrace flags using watchpoints - v2 K.Prasad
2011-12-08 11:19 ` [PATCH 1/2] [hw-breakpoint] Use generic hw-breakpoint interfaces for new PPC ptrace flags K.Prasad
2011-12-21  0:54   ` David Gibson
2011-12-08 11:23 ` [PATCH 2/2] [PowerPC Book3E] Introduce new ptrace debug feature flag K.Prasad
2011-12-21  0:55   ` David Gibson
2011-12-22  9:34     ` K.Prasad
2012-01-16  8:18       ` David Gibson
2012-02-15 22:18         ` Thiago Jung Bauermann [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-08-19  7:45 [PATCH 0/2] Changes to PowerPC ptrace flags using watchpoints K.Prasad
2011-08-19  7:53 ` [PATCH 2/2] [PowerPC Book3E] Introduce new ptrace debug feature flag K.Prasad
2011-08-23  5:09   ` David Gibson
2011-08-23  9:27     ` K.Prasad
2011-08-24  4:00       ` David Gibson
2011-08-25  0:41         ` Thiago Jung Bauermann
2011-08-26  4:41           ` David Gibson
2011-08-31  0:27             ` Thiago Jung Bauermann
2011-09-19  1:10               ` David Gibson

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