From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: will.deacon@arm.com (Will Deacon)
Date: Fri, 16 May 2014 17:21:38 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] arm64: ptrace: fix setting hw breakpoint/watchpoint
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On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 03:35:45PM +0100, catalin.udma at freescale.com wrote:
> Thank you, Will. The gdb patch seems to solve the problem.
> 
> As long as the kernel can rely on the registers number sent from GDB,
> then there is no need for this kernel patch.

What do you mean? Userspace can pass whatever it likes and the regset
accessors will do the right thing.

Will