From: David Gibson <dwg@au1.ibm.com>
To: "K.Prasad" <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org,
Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauerman@br.ibm.com>,
Edjunior Barbosa Machado <emachado@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] [hw-breakpoint] Use generic hw-breakpoint interfaces for new PPC ptrace flags
Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2011 11:54:19 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111221005419.GD5188@truffala.fritz.box> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111208111948.GA24484@in.ibm.com>
On Thu, Dec 08, 2011 at 04:49:48PM +0530, K.Prasad wrote:
> PPC_PTRACE_GETHWDBGINFO, PPC_PTRACE_SETHWDEBUG and PPC_PTRACE_DELHWDEBUG are
> PowerPC specific ptrace flags that use the watchpoint register. While they are
> targeted primarily towards BookE users, user-space applications such as GDB
> have started using them for BookS too. This patch enables the use of generic
> hardware breakpoint interfaces for these new flags.
>
> Apart from the usual benefits of using generic hw-breakpoint interfaces, these
> changes allow debuggers (such as GDB) to use a common set of ptrace flags for
> their watchpoint needs and allow more precise breakpoint specification (length
> of the variable can be specified).
>
> Signed-off-by: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Ok, I think it's finally ready to go.
Acked-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-12-21 0:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ 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 [this message]
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
-- 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 7:51 ` [PATCH 1/2] [hw-breakpoint] Use generic hw-breakpoint interfaces for new PPC ptrace flags K.Prasad
2011-08-23 5:08 ` David Gibson
2011-08-23 9:25 ` K.Prasad
2011-08-24 3:59 ` David Gibson
2011-08-26 9:35 ` K.Prasad
2011-09-16 7:27 ` K.Prasad
2011-10-12 3:33 ` David Gibson
2011-10-12 17:39 ` K.Prasad
2011-11-28 3:11 ` David Gibson
2011-12-01 10:20 ` K.Prasad
2011-12-07 19:01 ` Thiago Jung Bauermann
2011-12-08 8:30 ` K.Prasad
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