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From: "K.Prasad" <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>,
	Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>,
	richardj_moore@uk.ibm.com, jason.wessel@windriver.com,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [Patch 4/10] Introduce virtual debug register in thread_struct and wrapper-routines around process related functions
Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2009 16:03:44 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090215103344.GE6855@in.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090215103008.GA6855@in.ibm.com>


Introduce virtual debug register in thread_struct and wrapper-routines around
process related functions

From: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>

This patch introduces virtual debug registers to used by the per-thread
structure ad wrapper routines to manage debug registers by process-related
functions.

[K.Prasad: Split-out from the bigger patch and minor changes following
           re-basing]

Signed-off-by: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
---
 arch/x86/include/asm/debugreg.h  |   27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h |   10 +++-------
 2 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6-tip.hbkpt/arch/x86/include/asm/debugreg.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6-tip.hbkpt.orig/arch/x86/include/asm/debugreg.h
+++ linux-2.6-tip.hbkpt/arch/x86/include/asm/debugreg.h
@@ -49,6 +49,8 @@
 
 #define DR_LOCAL_ENABLE_SHIFT 0    /* Extra shift to the local enable bit */
 #define DR_GLOBAL_ENABLE_SHIFT 1   /* Extra shift to the global enable bit */
+#define DR_LOCAL_ENABLE (0x1)      /* Local enable for reg 0 */
+#define DR_GLOBAL_ENABLE (0x2)     /* Global enable for reg 0 */
 #define DR_ENABLE_SIZE 2           /* 2 enable bits per register */
 
 #define DR_LOCAL_ENABLE_MASK (0x55)  /* Set  local bits for all 4 regs */
@@ -67,4 +69,29 @@
 #define DR_LOCAL_SLOWDOWN (0x100)   /* Local slow the pipeline */
 #define DR_GLOBAL_SLOWDOWN (0x200)  /* Global slow the pipeline */
 
+/*
+ * HW breakpoint additions
+ */
+#ifdef __KERNEL__
+
+/* For process management */
+void flush_thread_hw_breakpoint(struct task_struct *tsk);
+int copy_thread_hw_breakpoint(struct task_struct *tsk,
+		struct task_struct *child, unsigned long clone_flags);
+void dump_thread_hw_breakpoint(struct task_struct *tsk, int u_debugreg[8]);
+void switch_to_thread_hw_breakpoint(struct task_struct *tsk);
+
+/* For CPU management */
+void load_debug_registers(void);
+static inline void disable_debug_registers(void)
+{
+	set_debugreg(0UL, 7);
+}
+
+/* For use by ptrace */
+unsigned long thread_get_debugreg(struct task_struct *tsk, int n);
+int thread_set_debugreg(struct task_struct *tsk, int n, unsigned long val);
+
+#endif	/* __KERNEL__ */
+
 #endif /* _ASM_X86_DEBUGREG_H */
Index: linux-2.6-tip.hbkpt/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6-tip.hbkpt.orig/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h
+++ linux-2.6-tip.hbkpt/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h
@@ -427,13 +427,9 @@ struct thread_struct {
 	unsigned long		ip;
 	unsigned long		fs;
 	unsigned long		gs;
-	/* Hardware debugging registers: */
-	unsigned long		debugreg0;
-	unsigned long		debugreg1;
-	unsigned long		debugreg2;
-	unsigned long		debugreg3;
-	unsigned long		debugreg6;
-	unsigned long		debugreg7;
+	/* Hardware breakpoint info */
+	unsigned long	vdr6;
+	struct thread_hw_breakpoint	*hw_breakpoint_info;
 	/* Fault info: */
 	unsigned long		cr2;
 	unsigned long		trap_no;

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-02-15 10:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-15 10:30 [Patch 00/10] Hardware Breakpoint interfaces K.Prasad
2009-02-15 10:31 ` [Patch 1/10] Introducing generic hardware breakpoint handler interfaces K.Prasad
2009-02-15 10:32 ` [Patch 2/10] x86 architecture implementation of Hardware Breakpoint interfaces K.Prasad
2009-02-15 10:33 ` [Patch 3/10] Modifying generic debug exception to use virtual debug registers K.Prasad
2009-02-15 10:33 ` K.Prasad [this message]
2009-02-15 10:34 ` [Patch 5/10] Use wrapper routines around debug registers in processor related functions K.Prasad
2009-02-15 10:34 ` [Patch 6/10] Use virtual debug registers in process/thread handling code K.Prasad
2009-02-15 10:34 ` [Patch 7/10] Modify signal handling code to refrain from re-enabling HW Breakpoints K.Prasad
2009-02-15 10:35 ` [Patch 8/10] Modify Ptrace routines to access breakpoint registers K.Prasad
2009-02-15 10:35 ` [Patch 9/10] Cleanup HW Breakpoint registers before kexec K.Prasad
2009-02-15 10:36 ` [Patch 10/10] Sample HW breakpoint over kernel data address K.Prasad
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-02-13 14:53 [Patch 00/10] Hardware Breakpoint interfaces K.Prasad
2009-02-13 14:56 ` [Patch 4/10] Introduce virtual debug register in thread_struct and wrapper-routines around process related functions K.Prasad
2009-02-10 12:35 [Patch 0/10] Hardware Breakpoint interfaces - v2 K.Prasad
2009-02-10 12:41 ` [Patch 4/10] Introduce virtual debug register in thread_struct and wrapper-routines around process related functions K.Prasad
2009-01-29  7:48 [Patch 0/10] Hardware Breakpoint interfaces K.Prasad
2009-01-29  8:28 ` [Patch 4/10] Introduce virtual debug register in thread_struct and wrapper-routines around process related functions K.Prasad

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