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From: Mark Salter <msalter@redhat.com>
To: Jeffrey Merkey <jeffmerkey@gmail.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: a-jacquiot@ti.com, linux.mdb@gmail.com, linux-c6x-dev@linux-c6x.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 18/31] Add debugger entry points for C6X
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2016 17:52:57 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1455231177.3767.62.camel@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1454010428-29139-1-git-send-email-jeffmerkey@gmail.com>

On Thu, 2016-01-28 at 12:47 -0700, Jeffrey Merkey wrote:
> This patch series adds an export which can be set by system debuggers to
> direct the hard lockup and soft lockup detector to trigger a breakpoint
> exception and enter a debugger if one is active.  It is assumed that if
> someone sets this variable, then an breakpoint handler of some sort will
> be actively loaded or registered via the notify die handler chain.
> 
> This addition is extremely useful for debugging hard and soft lockups
> real time and quickly from a console debugger.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jeffrey Merkey <jeffmerkey@gmail.com>
> ---

Acked-by: Mark Salter <msalter@redhat.com>

>  arch/c6x/include/asm/kdebug.h | 4 ++++
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 arch/c6x/include/asm/kdebug.h
> 
> diff --git a/arch/c6x/include/asm/kdebug.h b/arch/c6x/include/asm/kdebug.h
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..5d09de1
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/arch/c6x/include/asm/kdebug.h
> @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
> +
> +static inline void arch_breakpoint(void)
> +{
> +}

      reply	other threads:[~2016-02-11 22:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-01-28 19:47 [PATCH 18/31] Add debugger entry points for C6X Jeffrey Merkey
2016-02-11 22:52 ` Mark Salter [this message]

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