From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261568AbUCXUYN (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:24:13 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261728AbUCXUYN (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:24:13 -0500 Received: from host-65-117-135-105.timesys.com ([65.117.135.105]:2223 "EHLO santa.timesys") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261568AbUCXUYI (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:24:08 -0500 Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:24:02 -0500 To: "Amit S. Kale" Cc: Tom Rini , kgdb-bugreport@lists.sourceforge.net, Anurekh Saxena , Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [Kgdb-bugreport] kgdb_arch_set/remove_break() ? Message-ID: <20040324202402.GA20260@timesys.com> References: <20040319160359.GD4569@smtp.west.cox.net> <200403242005.21197.amitkale@emsyssoft.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200403242005.21197.amitkale@emsyssoft.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i From: Anurekh Saxena Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 08:05:21PM +0530, Amit S. Kale wrote: > On Friday 19 Mar 2004 9:33 pm, Tom Rini wrote: > > Hi. Right now I'm writing up a porting doc that describes the various > > hook functions we've got. I noticed that nothing is calling > > kgdb_arch_set/remove_break. Is there some arch we're expecting will > > need this? I'd like to just go ahead and remove them > > I can't remember why that was done. A processor other than PPC, x86 and x86_64 > needs a special implementation of set and remove breakpoint, I guess. > > Anurekh, who did initial implementation of arch independent-dependent split > may have some comments on this. *set_break *remove_break These functions should only be defined for architecutes that support hardware breakpoint. Set KGDB_HW_BREAKPOINT flag.