From: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix PPC floating point debug
Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 13:44:19 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1259325859.21806.7.camel@wall-e> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1259319716.2076.3.camel@pasglop>
Am Freitag, den 27.11.2009, 22:01 +1100 schrieb Benjamin Herrenschmidt:
> On Fri, 2009-11-27 at 09:59 +0100, Stefani Seibold wrote:
> > The PPC architecture is unable to debug applications using hardware
> > floating point, because it would not save the floating point registers.
> >
> > After returning from the debugger, the contents of register was
> > modified. This patch fix this bug.
>
> I'm not sure what problem you are trying to fix... debugging FP apps
> works just fine afaik. You don't need to flush the FP state into the
> thread when delivering the SIGTRAP. If you have a signal handler, that
> will be done for you by the signal code before laying out the signal
> frame. If you are using ptrace, you should be using the appropriate
> ptrace calls to retrieve the FP state and they should do the right thing
> to.
>
Aeh... Forget it! Thank you for the support.
Stefani
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-27 12:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-27 8:59 [PATCH] fix PPC floating point debug Stefani Seibold
2009-11-27 11:01 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-11-27 12:44 ` Stefani Seibold [this message]
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