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Violators will be prosecuted; (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256/256) Wed, 18 Mar 2020 09:22:30 -0000 Received: from d06av21.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (d06av21.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com [9.149.105.232]) by b06cxnps3075.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (8.14.9/8.14.9/NCO v10.0) with ESMTP id 02I9MTSx63111330 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=OK); Wed, 18 Mar 2020 09:22:29 GMT Received: from d06av21.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by IMSVA (Postfix) with ESMTP id 093E252052; Wed, 18 Mar 2020 09:22:29 +0000 (GMT) Received: from [9.203.170.80] (unknown [9.203.170.80]) by d06av21.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A0BA5204F; Wed, 18 Mar 2020 09:22:07 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/15] powerpc/watchpoint: Convert thread_struct->hw_brk to an array To: Christophe Leroy References: <20200309085806.155823-1-ravi.bangoria@linux.ibm.com> <20200309085806.155823-10-ravi.bangoria@linux.ibm.com> <0fc9489d-9955-f649-9007-ce6f5da345be@c-s.fr> <5efe2f41-2bf3-6927-aa6a-dcedb672c69d@linux.ibm.com> From: Ravi Bangoria Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2020 14:52:01 +0530 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-TM-AS-GCONF: 00 x-cbid: 20031809-0016-0000-0000-000002F31650 X-IBM-AV-DETECTION: SAVI=unused REMOTE=unused XFE=unused x-cbparentid: 20031809-0017-0000-0000-000033569A90 Message-Id: X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=fsecure engine=2.50.10434:6.0.138, 18.0.645 definitions=2020-03-18_03:2020-03-17, 2020-03-18 signatures=0 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=outbound_notspam policy=outbound score=0 malwarescore=0 bulkscore=0 mlxscore=0 suspectscore=0 clxscore=1015 priorityscore=1501 impostorscore=0 adultscore=0 spamscore=0 phishscore=0 mlxlogscore=987 lowpriorityscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx scancount=1 engine=8.12.0-2003020000 definitions=main-2003180043 X-BeenThere: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: apopple@linux.ibm.com, mikey@neuling.org, Ravi Bangoria , peterz@infradead.org, oleg@redhat.com, npiggin@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, paulus@samba.org, jolsa@kernel.org, fweisbec@gmail.com, naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, mingo@kernel.org Errors-To: linuxppc-dev-bounces+linuxppc-dev=archiver.kernel.org@lists.ozlabs.org Sender: "Linuxppc-dev" On 3/18/20 2:26 PM, Christophe Leroy wrote: > > > Le 18/03/2020 à 09:36, Ravi Bangoria a écrit : >> >> >> On 3/17/20 4:07 PM, Christophe Leroy wrote: >>> >>> >>> Le 09/03/2020 à 09:58, Ravi Bangoria a écrit : >>>> So far powerpc hw supported only one watchpoint. But Future Power >>>> architecture is introducing 2nd DAWR. Convert thread_struct->hw_brk >>>> into an array. >>> >>> Looks like you are doing a lot more than that in this patch. >>> >>> Should this patch be splitted in two parts ? >> >> So far thread_struct->hw_brk was a normal variable so accessing it was simple. >> Once it gets converted into an array, loop needs to be used to access it. So >> all misc changes are basically converting simple access into loops. >> >> I don't see how this can be splitted. >> > > You could first change all thread_struct->hw_brk to thread_struct->hw_brk[0] or thread_struct->hw_brk[i] when you know that i can only be 0 for now. Then add the loops and new functions in a second patch. Ok. I've already tried that :) But it looked unnecessary split to me because _all_ hw_brk => hw_brk[0] changes will again need to be changed to use loop in 2nd patch. So I thought it's better to do both changes in one patch. Thanks, Ravi