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 2/2] [PowerPC Book3E] Introduce new ptrace debug feature flag
Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2011 11:55:02 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111221005502.GE5188@truffala.fritz.box> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111208112330.GB24484@in.ibm.com>
On Thu, Dec 08, 2011 at 04:53:30PM +0530, K.Prasad wrote:
> While PPC_PTRACE_SETHWDEBUG ptrace flag in PowerPC accepts
> PPC_BREAKPOINT_MODE_EXACT mode of breakpoint, the same is not intimated to the
> user-space debuggers (like GDB) who may want to use it. Hence we introduce a
> new PPC_DEBUG_FEATURE_DATA_BP_EXACT flag which will be populated on the
> "features" member of "struct ppc_debug_info" to advertise support for the
> same on Book3E PowerPC processors.
Hrm. I had assumed the reason there wasn't a feature bit for EXACT
originally was that EXACT breakpoints were *always* supposed to be
supported by the new interface.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-12-21 0:55 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 [this message]
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 7:53 ` [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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