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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, kgdb-bugreport@lists.sourceforge.net,
	mingo@elte.hu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/15] powerpc: Replace hardcoded offset by BREAK_INSTR_SIZE
Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2010 09:44:23 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1280533463.1902.28.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1280517456-1167-11-git-send-email-jason.wessel@windriver.com>

On Fri, 2010-07-30 at 14:17 -0500, Jason Wessel wrote:
> From: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
> 
> kgdb_handle_breakpoint checks the first arch_kgdb_breakpoint
> which is not known by gdb that's why is necessary jump over
> it. The jump lenght is equal to BREAK_INSTR_SIZE that's
> why is cleaner to use defined macro instead of hardcoded
> non-described offset.

Yeah well, all powerpc instructions are 4 bytes :-) But the
patch is fine.

> Signed-off-by: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
> Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>

Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
> CC: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
> ---
>  arch/powerpc/kernel/kgdb.c |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/kgdb.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/kgdb.c
> index 82a7b22..7f61a3a 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/kgdb.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/kgdb.c
> @@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ static int kgdb_handle_breakpoint(struct pt_regs *regs)
>  		return 0;
>  
>  	if (*(u32 *) (regs->nip) == *(u32 *) (&arch_kgdb_ops.gdb_bpt_instr))
> -		regs->nip += 4;
> +		regs->nip += BREAK_INSTR_SIZE;
>  
>  	return 1;
>  }

      reply	other threads:[~2010-07-30 23:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1280517456-1167-1-git-send-email-jason.wessel@windriver.com>
2010-07-30 19:17 ` [PATCH 10/15] powerpc: Replace hardcoded offset by BREAK_INSTR_SIZE Jason Wessel
2010-07-30 23:44   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]

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